Multivitamin Comparison

One A Day®, GNC Ultra Mega®, Centrum® or UltraPURE X Multivitamin ™X?

Vitamin expert Lyle MacWilliam makes his living in the supplement field. He's author of Nutrisearch Comparative Guide to Nutritional Supplements, which rates more than 1,600 nutritional supplements, including those from GNC®, Centrum®, and OneADay®, based on label claims. Less than one per cent meet his five-star level, with many major brands receiving only one or two stars.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has the mandate to regulate supplements, but lets the industry regulate itself, he says. "As a result of that there are many products in the U.S. market that are inferior products, that are even unsafe products," he says. The problem with many of the cheaper multivitamins is that many of them use less potent forms of nutrients, many ingredients are less than the rda/oda, and many of them are not properly made to break down well in the stomach.

MacWilliam is concerned that many multi-vitamins contain only minimum amounts for maintaining the body as opposed to optimum amounts to ward off degenerative diseases. MacWilliam has watched people many times as they study vitamin labels and has found they often choose the cheapest.

Try this. Take your Centrum®, GNC®, or One-a-Day® (or whatever it is you're taking) and place it in a glass of water. Take The Purity Source Ultra Pure X Multivitamin™ and do the same thing. What do you see? Likely within 20 minutes the UltraPURE X Multivitamin™ has broken down. The other is likely still sitting there. Consumer Reports warns that in some cases buying ultra-cheap vitamins is risky. In testing, half the tested vitamins did not contain the claimed amount of at least one nutrient, and several didn't dissolve enough for the nutrients to even be absorbed by the body.

The Purity Source UltraPURE X ™ Multivitamin – Click here to take The Purity Source challenge!