Despite what your favorite health and wellness personality on Instagram might have you believe, not all of the popular multivitamins out there are created equal—no matter how trendy they or their packaging may seem. Same goes for the not-so-savvily-marketed options that have been around for ages.
It's true that multivitamins can move mountains for your health. In addition to helping you close nutritional gaps for a variety of vitamins and minerals, a quality multi can support longevity, immune function, brain health, and so much more.*
However, the benefits you reap from a multivitamin depend on its formula—and the annoying truth is that there are loads of incomplete multi formulas out there parading around as comprehensive, all-in-one nutritional buddies.
As mbg director of scientific affairs, Ashley Jordan Ferira, Ph.D., R.D.N. puts it: "Listen, there's no nutrition police out there checking to see if your 'complete' multivitamin is complete in actuality. You have to check yourself."
And though every trendy-looking product out there is a little different, there's one group of nutrients in particular that often get the boot when a brand decides to cut corners: minerals.
Though you might think iron, zinc, calcium, and magnesium are the only minerals you need, these are actually just a few of the full array of minerals required for optimal health and bodily function*—and many of them are often missing from multivitamin formulas, according to Ferira, nutrition scientist and...
Read Full Story: https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/many-multivitamins-fall-short-on-important-minerals
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