Best you can get, June 28, 2007

A friend told me about this several years ago, and said I had to try it. I was very skeptical, as I was taking a multi vitamin from a name brand company. I lost a bet with him, and the price I had to pay was to try Weil Nutritionals out. I did, and since then have felt better than I did before taking it. With the off the shelf drug store stuff, that I had been taking, I was always felling run down, and getting sick. My wife started taking Weil Nutritionals too, and has quit taking the women’s nutritional products from other companies. I do not know what Dr. Weil does that they do not, but truly does seem to be a better product. The Amazon price is WAY better than my local health foods store too.

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Horse tablets, June 17, 2009

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Randal J. Geringer “Everybody_is_Devo” (The New Texas Republic) – See all my reviews

  

These are great but they are huge pills. I highly recommend and will be buying again myself. I have not problem with big pills but other might.

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Some Concerns, September 26, 2008

While I don’t think this multivitamin is bad overall, I do have some concerens.

First, the vitamin is extremely hard to swallow. I nearly choked a couple of times trying to get it down. Another reader claims that shouldn’t be a criticism. Well, I disagree.

Second, [...], an independent company that tests nutrional supplements found problems with the ingredients, namely that the vitamins contain only 73% of the vitamin A that is on the label, and, due to a binding agent used, there is actually 251% of its claimed 60 mg of calcium. Whether these problems have been corrected, I do not know.

Nonetheless, I think these vitamins are decent overall, although I have ethical issues with how Dr. Weil shamelessly promotes his own products on his Web site, especially with his “vitamin advisor,” which recommends the same amount of stuff to take regardless of your input.

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Update: Based on the recent tests by Consumerlab.com, it appears that the issues I mentioned above have been resolved.

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Great for the price., July 20, 2010

This is a very good program for the money. My customers use it in my vitamin store. It does need some updating. Once again, can’t beat it for the money.

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Great book for doctor’s office and for fireplace reading, December 26, 2003

This book is under the banner of the famed Linus Pauling Institute (Oregon State University) has it has a great foreword by Bruce Ames. Linus Pauling was one of the best thinkers of the last century and he recommended much higher than RDA / Daily Value intakes from a multi-vitamin as well as some other supplements in order to help procure optimal health.

There is no science yet to suggest that Pauling was wrong about such high dose supplementation –for example to lower blood-toxin homocysteine, the most likely cause of most heart disease, some cancers and Alzheimer’s disease. However, the medical world is slow embracing the evidence supporting this approach but that is changing.

This book is an important and tightly edited work that will help practicing physicians and interested lay people with factual data, pointers and references and even the most knowledgeable person will surely pick up important health information they would otherwise have missed.

This is a well organized handbook with 27 chapters for the individual vitamins and minerals and their effects, sources and therapeutic indications and drug interactions.

This book has “Tolerable Upper Levels” tables to satisfy even the most conservative physician but it must be said that this heading represents a level that prevents the most uncommon or even trivial interactions, and a level that may well be much below “Optimal Levels” as suggested by Pauling, and which are likely to promote health in the great majority of people.

The book would benefit from a “Pauling Proposed Probable Optimal Levels in Most” table and from the inclusion of chapters for what used to be named vitamin F, with the F from “Fat”, i.e. the essential omega-3 and omega-6 oils, think of them as vitamins F-3 and F-6. Present intakes of omega-3s are well below adequate levels while omega-6 (linoleic acid from most vegetable oils) may well represent our most common “vitamin overdose”.

The challenge of the new nutrition is figuring out the “Long-Latency Deficiency Diseases”, LLDD’s if you wish, caused by the insufficient intakes over time of one or several nutrients, from vitamin D and calcium for bone health, to the homocysteine-lowering trio of folic acid, B6 and B12 for heart and other diseases.

This book builds a solid foundation with what is known, it is without technical errors and it is clearly presented. Vital in a doctor’s office and much recommended for the interested lay person. …..

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Evidence-Based Approach to Vitamins and Minerals, June 1, 2010

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V. Doyle “Screaming mimi” – See all my reviews

  

Books quickly arrived in excellent condition. Very fast service!! I highly recommend this seller! Book gives very detailed information about vitamins and minerals and reactions with other medications, symptoms of deficiency or toxicity. Very well written and informative.

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