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Where can I buy vitamins online by searching by dosage?
There's a lot of vitamins and supplements on the market that offer too much or too little of the specified ingredient. Fortunately, I know precisely the mg/IU/etc. to get a therapeutic benefit without hitting the UL since I spend a day every week at the NLM. Unfortunately, it takes forever to weed through a website looking for the correct and least expensive product.
Are there any sites where I can search by the amount of the ingredient?
(For example, somewhere where I can search for 370mg of Vitamin E and receive results only less than or equal to that, or search for 30-100mg of CoQ-10 and get results in that range.)
November 14th, 2010 - 11:54
Nope unless the web sites for a vitamin cottage or shoppe have this tool.
I do not an application that finds the cheapest vitamin by dose.
USDA National Nutrient Database Online Search and Vitamin and Mineral Supplement Fact Sheets:
http://www.nutrition.gov/nal_display/index.php?info_center=11&tax_level=2&tax_subject=388&topic_id=1666&placement_default=0
November 14th, 2010 - 11:54
A "manufactured" vitamin will not provide the amounts listed on the labels due to the body’s inability to absorb all of them. This is mainly due to the fact that a lot of Vitamins are manufactured of synthetic materials, that’s why they can give you the exact amounts of the vitamins on the labels.
A natural vitamin is much more bioavailable(absorption), meaning you need less because the body is able to get all of the nutrients. Therefore, look for natural vitamins rather than by dosage. Fish oil for example, is a natural vitamin and you will find somewhere in the small print that the amount does vary because it’s derived from a natural source. It’s the same with other vitamins.
If you want all of the vitamins, minerals, trace elements, enzymes, fatty acids, and amino acids(wth a slew of other elements), then I suggest you research Phytoplankton. An open celled phytoplankton supplement is much more bioavailable than all other supplements and it contains EVERYTHING the body needs to get healthier and stay healthier. Just keep in mind that you don’t want the ones that have other stuff added to them—it might be a nice enhancement for some, but in general does phytoplankton do a superior job over all other vitamins……