Multi Vitamins and Potency

[Nickd40]

I bought these multi vitamins at walmart that were cheap. i compared the label to centrum and the cheaper ones had a lot more Vitamins and minerals and at higher percentages than centrum. I hear Potency is everything but how do u find out how potent they are. Thanx

 

[mm107]

See how yellow your piss is.....

When i take my multi vitamins, wich i bought in a health store, which have amazingly high levels of everything men needs, from zinc to vitamin C, to serbian ginseng, and minerals.

BUT when i take them, i PEE fucking NEON yellow. So i stoped taking a whole serving, (2 pills) and take one in the monring and 1 at night. BUT my PEE is still a bright neon yellow.

But when i take centrum my pee would be clear, i hear this is because your body used up all the ingrediants of the pill, but when its yellow, i believe your body is flooded with vinamins and the excess is peed away, meaning

You body cant utilize any more vitamins because it has all it needs

But i ahve heard, that centrum is store quality, while vitamin store, gnc , etc vitamins are pharmacutical grade. Just my 2 cents

So i recomend not going cheap, but not going crazy either, i would say 15-20 bucks for decent vitamins, ( a months worth)

 

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See how yellow your piss is.....

When i take my multi vitamins, wich i bought in a health store, which have amazingly high levels of everything men needs, from zinc to vitamin C, to serbian ginseng, and minerals.

BUT when i take them, i PEE fucking NEON yellow. So i stoped taking a whole serving, (2 pills) and take one in the monring and 1 at night. BUT my PEE is still a bright neon yellow.

But when i take centrum my pee would be clear, i hear this is because your body used up all the ingrediants of the pill, but when its yellow, i believe your body is flooded with vinamins and the excess is peed away, meaning

You body cant utilize any more vitamins because it has all it needs
But i ahve heard, that centrum is store quality, while vitamin store, gnc , etc vitamins are pharmacutical grade. Just my 2 cents

So i recomend not going cheap, but not going crazy either, i would say 15-20 bucks for decent vitamins, ( a months worth)

this, even though it sounds pretty odd, is absolutely correct. The more concentrated (dark yellow-->light orangy) your PEE is the more stuff your body is getting rid of. But the only advice i have for you if you want to do the pee test is to record maybe over a week's time of taking it what color your pee is and how concentrated it is. Because if you only test it for one day and lets say you drank a few GALLONS of water that day of course, even if your body is ridding of most of the vitamin, your pee will be clear because the waste is diluted. So if you check everyday for a week and it is still a dark yellow i say the vitamin is not right for you.

 

[Nickd40]

i understand what yall are saying but also couldnt it just happen to be that the multi vitamins have a higher percentage of your daily value. the ones i have have well over 100% of the daily value, while the last time i looked at centrum i dont think none were over 100%. i may sound stupid but what do yall think

 

[mm107]

i have ones well over daily percentage, in fact my vitamin c, is 1000% and ALOt of others at 500+%. Just make sure they are in fact in a healthy range tho, even tho 1000% vitamin c seems alot, it just says its 10 X more then an avarage person should be getting. And ahem, im no avarage man !

 

[Nickd40]

bump

 

[shrimp44]

your body is still absorbing the vtamins it needs though, of course your gonna piss out some of the ones you don't need, I piss neon yellow everyday from my multi vitamin, doesn't mean the whole vitamin is getting pissed out!

 

[taoiron]

You guys are putting way to much into this…..

Pick a well-respected Multi and take it as directed. I use Ultra Mega Gold but there are many good ones out there.

Your Multi is nothing more than nutritional insurance. We should be getting most / all of what we need from our daily food intake, but just in case…. Pop a multi or two and you are golden.

You will most likely have a color change in urine and sometimes feces…. This is NORMAL…

Your body can only absorb nutrients at a given rate, what is not absorbed will be excreted!!

 

[southpaw45]

Your body can only absorb nutrients at a given rate, what is not absorbed will be excreted!!

Exactly. Don't be worried about the 500% DV. This is just a recommended number. The FDA is reviewing all these and will probably make the dosages higher from what I've read.