Vitamin Secrets They Don't Want You to Know!
| Liquid Vitamin Industry Secret #1 Q: Does the 1996 Physician's Desk Reference make a tacit endorsement of liquid vitamins? A: Search the web for "Physician's Desk Reference page 1542" and you'll find dozens of listings that seem to infer that the PDR is endorsing liquid vitamins ... |
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| Liquid Vitamin Industry Secret #2 Q: Are liquid vitamins more readily absorbed than tablet vitamins? A: Unless more details are given, this question cannot be properly answered. The absorbability or bio-availability of a particular supplement or drug is dependent ... |
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| Liquid Vitamin Industry Secret #3 Q: If a liquid vitamin has 200 ingredients is it better than one that has 100 ingredients? A: Some manufacturers are hoping you won't stop and think about this question. When a typical serving size is about a tablespoon, a liquid can only contain so many ingredients ... |
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| Liquid Vitamin Industry Secret #4 Q: Are thousands of pounds of vitamin and mineral tablets being mined from the municipal sewer systems across America? A: Dozens of vendors of liquid vitamins are claiming that, literally, hundreds of pounds of undigested vitamin tables are being strained out of municipal sewer systems, but is it true? ... |
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Liquid Vitamins and the Physicians Desk Reference (PDR)
If you have done any research at all on liquid vitamins, you've probably encountered one of many websites that mention page 1542 of the 1996 Physician's Desk Reference. The Physician's Desk Reference (or PDR) is an annual reference guide listing each of the drugs that are available, their manufacturer, purpose for use, contra-indications (side effects), etc.
So, what does this have to do with liquid vitamins, you ask? Well, we asked the same question. In order to find out, we purchased a copy of the 1996 PDR to see.
The Physician's Desk Reference is not "independent research", it is a resource of aggregated information provided by each manufacturer. Manufacturers of drugs supply the information to the publisher and they format it, print it and distribute it.
The image to the right is from a scan of page 1542 of the 1996 PDR. The listing is for a line of spray vitamins distributed by a multilevel markeing company.
The purpose of the reference is to provide physicians with a complete and exhaustive source of drug information in one single location. Having such a resource allows the physician to make certain of specifics related to the drug, such as the spelling of it, the dosages available, the recommended dosage, special instructions (e.g., take with food, take without food), special warnings (e.g., do not drive or operate machinery while taking this drug, do not take with aspirin, do not drink alcohol while taking this drug) and contra-indications.
A close up view of the chart is provided below, so that you can see, in detail, the information that has been provided to the publishers of the PDR.
There are many interesting things about this chart. First of all, the scale is not listed on the left side of the chart. The values (except for 100%) are completely subjective.
Secondly, there is no reference as to where the details of this study can be found, who managed the study, what number of subjects were used or any other useful information.
Interestingly, the liquid vitamin sites that use this questionable chart to "prove their case" do not even use it correctly. They claim the results of the first column for liquid vitamins.
In fact, the first column label reads "Intra-Oral Spray", which refers to a product that would be absorbed through the mucous membranes. Unless you plan to hold the liquid vitamins in your mouth for several hours until the liquid has been absorbed, this column cannot refer to liquid vitamins.
The column that refers to a vitamin that would be distributed in liquid form is the third column, labeled "Sublingual Liquid". Sublingual literally means "beyond the mouth" and that is where the liquid vitamins would be absorbed into the system.
The liquid vitamin vendors who refer to this chart aren't reading it correctly... but we don't think that the chart has any efficacy whatsoever, anyhow. Our research leads us to believe that there are simply too many factors that affect the bio-availability of a particular drug, supplement or substance.
We visited the website of the company who provided this chart to the PDR to see what they have to say about it. In an ironic twist of circular reasoning, they refer to the PDR itself as evidence that spray vitamins are a more-effective delivery method:
"Oral absorption has been conclusively shown to be the most effective means for the absorption of nutritional supplements into the human body. As shown in the world-famous Physicians Desk Reference®, buccal absorption of nutrients from an oral spray is more than ten times as effective as absorption from gel caps and pills."
Source 11/1/2005: (http://www.karemor.com/article.adp?id=31)
The "world-famous Physicians Desk Reference" is simply displaying the table of information that the manufacturer provided in the first place! It's just like placing an ad in the Wall Street Journal and then telling people that the Wall Street Journal has endorsed you!
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