Dr Mercola’s Multivitamin plus minerals contains 240 tablets and is excellent for added nutrient support
Why Use a Multivitamin?
- By the time the food reaches your table, serious nutrient content could already be lost by as much as 50%
- Conventional farming methods that rely heavily on chemical fertilizers and pesticides deplete the soil of nutrients - nutrients that should be absorbed by plants in order to be passed on to you.
- For most food, cooking it will seriously impair its nutritional value.
We Rate Mercola’s Multivitamin Because:
- Most importantly it is NOT synthetic and your body recognises it as food
- It contains a proper nutrient balance - just as too little of a nutrient does not provide you any real benefits, too much can potentially do you more harm than good
- It is in tablet form for optimal absorbability - the key to promoting your health is absorbing as much of the nutrient as possible
- A complex evaluation has been performed by the scientists to make sure the amounts and types of nutrients work well together to benefit you
- It is as nature intended in WHOLE form because all the vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and enzymes are together in one package, working synergistically to give your body the nutrition it requires for optimal health.
- It contains 2000 mg of a blend of vegetables, fruits, herbs, and green foods such as broccoli, kale, chlorella, cauliflower, wheatgrass juice, sprouted barley grass, spirulina, and much more (see the label)
Why The Hering Clinic Rates this Product
We feel very strongly about something that is going to be taken on a daily basis, such as your multivitamin. Nature intended for you to consume food in WHOLE form because all the vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and enzymes are together in one package. They work synergistically to give your body the nutrition it requires for optimal health which is exactly what Mercola’s multi-vitamin does. It is actually a whole food supplement which is why you have to take 8 tablets spaced out throughout the day with meals, this allows it to be treated like food by your body. Any multi that promises to deliver a high quantity of vitamins in one capsule is going to put stress on your liver (Muller, A and Yeoh, C: 2010) – any single meal you consume would never deliver such high doses of nutrients. We like the fact that it is in tablet form rather than capsule because this is easier for the body to absorb (no plastic shell to break down first before the nutrients can be accessed.
Don’t be fooled by vitamins billed as natural food state’ either. These vitamins are created on yeast beds – the yeast is fed synthetic nutrients (which are usually derived from coal tar) and these synthetics are then adsorbed onto the yeasts surface and since yeast is a natural product, even though the vitamins are synthetic, then it can be labelled food state. Synthetic vitamins often give you massive quantities of some nutrients (usually the most inexpensive ones) and insufficient quantities of others, not balance plus you can experience side effects of synthetic isolates from the additives and the very unnatural state of the synthetic supplement.
At The Hering Clinic we avoid anything that contains yeast, since in our experience we think it causes many problems - look at the number of people with bloating, thrush and athletes foot for example. We all have a certain amount in our body which is there to decompose us when we die but unfortunately we are constantly adding to the pot through all the carbohydrates and sugary foods we consume, plus the additional yeast found in processed products. Dr Mercola is completely anti-yeast so none of his products contain this fungus. What we like most about his multi though, is that it contains many anti-oxidants in the form of fruits and vegetables. Eight tablets will deliver a good base of nutrients which we just don’t get from our diets any more. Our soils are now so depleted of any goodness, it’s amazing we get anything at all. We love the fact that throughout the day, you will get 5000 iu of vitamin D for example (we have sent enough people for blood tests to understand that most of us are completely deficient in this important nutrient). If you think £42.99 is a hefty price to pay for your health, check out the label to see how much you are getting for your money. We think it’s rather a lot.
Directions for Use:
As a dietary supplement, adults take 4 tablets two times daily with food or as directed by your health care professional. The product is best taken once in the morning and once at night.
Ingredients:
Mercola_Multivitamin_Plus.pdf
References
Muller, A and Yeoh, C. (2010). Compromised Detoxification. Biochemical Imbalances in Disease. London. Singing Dragon.
