Posted by Larry Hoover on September 11, 2004, at 15:57:07
In reply to Re: First Time Med Free in Years...Need Help, posted by Buckeye Fan on September 10, 2004, at 10:43:38
> Thanks for the response Larry.
> I will print out your posted ingredients and work on it.
>
> Also...isnt Liquid Form of Supplements better assimilated by the Body than pills?
> Just curious if I should go the liquid route....I
> have heard only a small percentage of the benefits of Mutivitaman Suppliments actually make it into the system, unless taken in Liquid Form.
> If so....why do they still make Vitamens and Minerals in pill form?You've already answered your own question, in part.
All vitamins and minerals have to be dissolved before they can be absorbed from the gut. That's what one of your stomach's main jobs is, to mash and dissolve food.
Vitamin pills are composed of the nutrients and binders. The latter are the components that make it a pill, rather than a powder. The binders are selected to be sensitive to the stomach environment. It's not too likely that a pill will pass through you in your stool.
I suspect what you're thinking about is the myth that vitamin pills lead straight to having expensive urine. It's the step that's just before the urine that's the important one.
When a nutrient crosses the stomach or intestinal wall, it is quickly transported into the blood. It goes straight from the gut to the liver, and then on into general circulation.
All of your tissues and organs use blood for two main purposes (ignoring immune response, and clotting,etc.), the supply of raw materials, and the elimination of waste. Your tissues and organs can get access to a nutrient if, and only if, it is in your blood.
Your kidneys are set up something like molecular sieves. They keep whole cells from leaking out, but they let soluble stuff past. Water and sugar, and some other special chemicals are retrieved from the waste stream, but your kidneys do not really differentiate much between nutrients and waste. If your other organs are exposed to a nutrient, so are you kidneys. Yes, your urine can eventually contain a good bit of your vitamin pills, but during the time your kidneys are doing their thing, all your tissues are taking up all they can handle.
Your urine staining yellow from vitamin pills (riboflavin, B2, does that) is proof it, and presumably the other nutrients, were in your blood. You can't do better than that.
> Hard to seperate the truth from the rumors.
> I still dont know why we bother swallowing any
> med anyways...Ive read that dissolving under the tongue is faster, quicker and more efficient.
> True? Any exceptions?Lots of exceptions. In fact, sublingual meds are the exception. You generally don't want most meds to be absorbed in a hurry like that. Moreover, stuff that gets in through your oral membranes is already part of the blood circulating in your head. It hasn't been "checked over" by your liver. It hasn't been diluted by the volume of your whole body.
Your digestive tract is properly equipped to do the job.
> Are you sorry you said :more questions are welcomed"?...lolo!
>
> BFNope. More questions are welcome. You'll come to see that I mean it.
Lar
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