Are you wasting your money with multivitamins? Look, here's the thing. I am a proponent of any
change in your lifestyle for the better. So I know lots of people out there in the world are taking
multivitamins because they're trying to take steps towards improving their health and I commend them
for that. So this video in no way, shape or form is there to discount or throw any kind of negative
juju towards the people that are actually making changes with their health or taking multivitamins,
is more so to provide honest information so you can figure out some alternatives. Because the
reality is, is that the journals both JMAA and Lancet found in meta analysis, that looked at
400,000 people, that multivitamin consumption actually had a link to increase mortality.
Now don't freak out. All I'm saying with that is that it doesn't necessarily mean that correlation
equals causation. It's just the fact that there clearly is no real solid proof that multivitamins
are actually helping us in any way. I would honestly say that it's probably just a by-product
of the multi-billion dollar supplement industry, trying to take advantage of good solid people that
are trying to make healthier decisions. I'm Thomas DeLauer with Antler Farms, and we're going to dive
in to the multivitamin truth. So let's break down what exactly is happening with multivitamins.
You see the simple truth is that there's far too many nutrients,
a lot of the nutrient deficiencies that we're trying to overcome end up being demand driven,
which means that at a very point in time, we might be deficient in a given mineral or
a given vitamin. So taking a multivitamin once per day, at the end of the day, isn't going to
reload those stores in any specific fashion. In fact, a lot of times they just load a bunch
of the basic cheap minerals and vitamins into one capsule, and it's not really doing you much good.
For example, if you're low in magnesium, at one point in time, you're going to need
magnesium at that point in time. If you take a bunch of magnesium later on in the day,
that's not necessarily going to solve the problem. You see, supplements as a whole are really only
there to supplement and multivitamins kind of put the point across that you can really just take
that multivitamin and get away with everything, and it's not really the case. Supplements are
a little bit more of a finely tuned system that we really should be paying attention to.
Now, the other thing we have to look at is usually multivitamins are putting the wrong forms in. So
they're putting the wrong forms in and there's usually poor absorption. So a perfect example
is like vitamin B12. Commonly we see what's called cyanocobalamin. Cyanocobalamin is B12,
that is essentially bound to a cyanide molecule. Cyanide is poison. Now the liver has to metabolize
the cyanide, break that down and then make the B12 bioavailable, which is pretty hard to do.
Whereas, like you see versions of B12 that have like what's called methylcobalamin, which is a
little bit easier for the liver to process. My point in saying this is multivitamins, in order
to be more effective with space, and in order to be actually be cost effective with a multivitamin,
they usually use low quality forms that aren't absorbed or just are the wrong form in general.
And the other thing we have to look at is the conflicting vitamins and minerals. A
perfect example is multivitamins that will contain a large amount of calcium,
but then also a large amount of zinc. Well, calcium and zinc cancel each other out.
And so does calcium and magnesium. So it's like when you're taking these multivitamins, it's not
like you're just taking a magic pill. Your body is going to grab whatever it's deficient in,
which quite frankly, getting some blood work done and finding what you're deficient in is probably
a better way to go and go with a single vitamin for that given deficiency, rather than taking
something that could cancel each other out. So what are some alternatives that you can look at?
Aside from just eating whole foods and aside from being on top of your overall nutrition,
what can you do? Well consuming some things like wheat grass or some chlorophyll is a
great place to start. You're going to get a high degree of the water-soluble
vitamins that you would normally get from good solid food. We're talking like
A, C, E, K, a little bit of B vitamins, talking about all these things are going
to help you out. And you're getting them in a bioavailable form the body can actually utilize.
Plus with things like wheat grass or greens, you're actually going to chelate the heavy
metals that typically end up causing an issue to begin with. So the heavy metals that actually
inhibit the absorption of the good minerals that we need can end up getting out of the body.
See, wheat grass and some greens are going to help chelate that process. That's very,
very important. But they also assist when it comes down to glutathione production,
which is your body's natural inherent ability to detox. It's our mastering antioxidants. So
if we can help the body do that, help the body produce more of that master antioxidant, then
we're in a great situation where we can be healthy with a minimal amount of additional things.
Another thing that I recommend is taking in something like beef liver, or even bone marrow.
See, beef liver and bone marrow both have a high amount of vitamin B12. But mainly when we look at
things like beef liver, we've got over 1,000% of your vitamin B12, we've got bioavailable vitamin
A and we have like 714% bioavailable copper. Now the reason that I mention this is because
these are hard things to get naturally. So when you're looking at just getting a full spectrum of
vitamins and minerals, getting it from something like beef liver or from bone marrow or from
organic greens or wheat grass is a much more solid way because the body's actually going to utilize
it and metabolize it, rather than taking it in a cheap form that isn't really going to go anywhere
except for in the toilet. So I'm Thomas DeLauer with Antler Farms. I highly recommend
that you check out the Antler Farm suite of products when it comes down to getting fresh,
clean quality ingredients, that your body can actually utilize. I'll see you in the next video.