Is it true that your body only absorbs 20% of the minerals you ingest in supplement form?
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From what I've been told by a Biophysicist...if the suppliment is in tablet or caplet form, not gel or capsule, the body runs the digestive process too fast for it to dissolve enough to absorb more than 40%. If your intestines are backed up with garbage and not eliminating properly that is even lower %. Powdered or liquid form are the best way to take a suppliment for absorption, capsule or gel is next. Tablets and caplets have added ingredients that hold them together making it harder to dissolve.
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Nutrients (vitamins & minerals) can not be properly absorbed and processed by the body w/o the other complimentary nutrients. Your body uses them in pairs, so although you can take a suppliment of one vitamin, unless you also supply the body with the other it can't be used. Excess nutrients will either be flushed through the body or build up in the body. You don't want excessive amounts of any one nutrient - that can lead to disease.
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We break down the tissues/plants in to basic nutrients when we digest it.  However, this is half truth.  We cannot digest chemical or bacterial grown in these food.  This is probably true for any food that uses pesticide or hormone injected in live stock.  The hormone, antibiotic, pesticide doesn't break down easy and end up in our body.\n\nI mean have you noticed kids grow up lot faster these days and everyone is getting stronger shots of antibiotic cuz our body is so used to antibiotic.\n\nStill, it's far from growing 2 heads or 5 arms.  Although I'd like an extra head or an arm at times.
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our body is composed of 90% water
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yes, vitamin D helps to absorb more calcium. u don't absorb all of the calcium u eat. however, when u look at food labels, if it says 30% calcium, that means  ur body absorbs 30% of the calcium that it needs for the day from the food. milk and some orange juice is fortified with vitamin D, but the best source is sunlight. it sounds weird but if u lit in the sun for 15 or 20 minutes every day, u will get all of the vitamin that u need for the day. 15 or 20 minutes also doesn't hurt ur skin. hope ur legs heal quickly.
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I take a multi called Source of Life, by Natures Plus. You take three a day.\n Avoid vitamins like Centrum, they don't break down in your system, another words they are as hard as a rock!!! Your urine should look like Mountain Dew after taking a good vitamin. (thats how you know if it is breaking down or not) Taking just one a day does not give you the requirements that your body deserves. It goes through your body very fast. The brands that require three a day are the brands I would look into.
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you need a HIGH CALCIUM DIET dear :)\n\nif taking supplements, it needs to have vitamin D with it so that the body can absorb the calcium. The body needs vitamin D to absorb calcium.\n\nDo you have any parathyroid problems? (hyperparathyroidism)If so, you need to be taking Calcitrol. But your doctor would have told you this, so just look up foods that have high calcium and eat those!
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To be on the safe side, take a daily multiple vitamin/mineral supplement.
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No.Certainly not.If your digestive system is working properly,your daily food will give you what you need. If it is not fuctioning well no supplement will work permanently.\nSo it is best to improve digestion.stick to wholesome diet.
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Your body is not used to most of the vitamins and minerals.  It may take you s few days to a week to start or stop feeling the effects of them, depending on why you are taking them.
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It absorbs nutrients from your digested food.
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If you eat a healthy diet, you get all your vitamins and minerals you need from the food you eat.
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Your body will only absorb what it needs...  The problem, for me, with time-release vitamins is that they're often synthetic.\n\nHere's some info on synthetic vitamins (including vitamin C): \n\n"Taking the synthetic form of vitamin C, for example, can actually thicken the arterial walls of the heart by as much as 2.5 times which can lead to heart disease and can do harm to the body! Ascorbic acid ( synthetic vitamin C ) is the word that you need to watch out for.\n\nTaking the synthetic form of vitamin A is proven to actually increase the rate of cancer which can do more harm than good to your body! But the whole vitamin A ( from vegetables ) actually does the exact opposite. Whole Vitamin A significantly reduces the rate of cancer! Most Vitamin nutrients on the market today use stripped down synthetic vitamins rather than whole vitamins straight from vegetables and fruits like our vitamin! Why? Synthetic vitamins are much cheaper to produce.\n\nTaking the synthetic form of Vitamin E is proven to actually suck vitamins and minerals right out of the bones which can do more harm than good to the body! Once again, most vitamin supplements today are using all the synthetic vitamins because they are cheap to manufacture."\n\n"Remember, next to the name of any vitamin, if you don't see a name of a food or an asterisk leading you to a place on the label that tells you the food source of the vitamins, you are more than likely looking at an inexpensive, processed vitamin that is stripped of all other compounds that are normally present with vitamins that are found in fruits and vegetables. If you see the name of a food referenced to the vitamin, be excited to know that you are getting vitamins direct from the whole food and, therefore, you are also getting the essential precursors, enzymes, activators, antioxidants, and micronutrients (essential compounds) that are naturally found with vitamins. These essential compounds make it much easier for the body to absorb and utilize the vitamins you are taking! Your body deserves to be given the right vitamins that are essential for your good health!" \n\n(Information above quoted from http://www.newbetteryou.com )\n\nThis is why I won't use time-release formulas.  I'd rather get my vitamins and minerals from whole food sources and/or a whole food based multi-vitamin.
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Perhaps your body can not absorb it?  THat's why taking supplements will not help? Talk more with your doc about the absorption issue and what to do about it. Perhaps you can get it intravenously??
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If you are eating a normal, healthy, balanced diet then supplements are entirely unecessary.\nYou do not need to 'load' your body with protein before or after a training session - this is a misunderstanding of how protein metabolism works.\nMuscle growth (like any growth) happens slowly and if you eat more than your body can cope with at the time the excess is converted into two things:\n- one part is respired to provide energy, the\n- other part is converted to urea and excreted in urine.\nThe part respired might not be needed to make energy immediately so it is treated like excess carbohydrate and fat and converted into adipose tissue (fat beneath the skin). Consequently you should be wary of overloading with proteins just as you would for fats and carbohydrates.
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Within cells or as a dietary 'supplement'?
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The short answer is the small intestine. The small intesting does the primary job of absorption, absorbing the nutrients (i.e., proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, vitamins [water and fat soluble], water and electrolytes. However, the large intestine does absorb the remaining additional water, vitamin B, and some electrolytes.\n\nLike I said, that is the short answer...if you need additional information let me know!