What is An "Optimal Dose" Multivitamin?

       Many multivitamins, especially those that claim to be “once daily” do not and cannot contain optimal doses of important nutrients – there just isn’t enough room in one or two reasonable-sized tablets or capsules.

       I recommend that an Optimal Dose Daily Multivitamin should be taken in divided doses throughout the day (with meals), and should contain ingredients and doses like the following example:

Vitamin A 17,500 IU (as natural beta-carotene [15,000 IU] from D. salina and [2500 IU] from palmitate);

Viatmin C 1200 mg (sodium ascorbate, calcium ascorbate, ascorbic acid);

Vitamin D3 800 IU (as cholecalciferol);

Vitamin E 400 IU (as mixed tocopherols);

Vitamin K2 150 mcg (as menaquinone);

Thiamin 100 mg (as thiamin mononitrate);

Riboflavin 60 mg;

Niacin 200 mg (as niacinamide and inositol hexanicotinate);

Vitamin B6 100 mg (as pyridoxine hydrochloride, pyridoxyl 5-phosphate);

Folic Acid 800 mcg (as 5-methylcobalamin);

Biotin 300 mcg;

Pantothenic acid 400 mg (as d-calcium pantothenate);

Calcium 1000 mg (carbonate, citrate, ascorbate);

Iodine 150 mcg (from kelp);

Magnesium 500 mg (oxide, aspartate, citrate);

Zinc 20 mg (as monomethionine);

Selenium 200 mcg (as selenomethionine);

Copper 2 mg (as copper amino acid chelate);

Manganese 5 mg (as manganese amino acid chelate, gluconate, aspartate);

Chromium 200 mcg (as polynicotinate, picolinate);

Molybdenum 150 mcg (amino acid chelate);

Potassium 99 mg (aspartate, chloride, succinate);

Choline 350 mg (as choline bitartrate, citrate);

Vanadium 20 mcg (as vanadyl sulfate),

Boron 2 mg (amino acid chelate);

Para-Aminobenzoic acid 50 mg;

Citrus bioflavonoids 100 mg;

Lipase 27.5 mg;

Amylase 19 mg;

Protease 5 mg

-         Dana Myatt, N.M.D.,

www.drmyattswellnessclub.com

Well Being Journal

March/April 2013