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| Departments » Nutrition » Vitamins » Vitamin B (Complex) |
Note - the monographs are provided for educational purposes only, and are not to be used for self-medication.
| Vitamin | B Complex | ||||||
| Conditions Used For | Essential for almost every bodily function especially metabolism of foods and energy production. | ||||||
| Synergists | Practically
all B vitamins act synergistically with each other.
Vitamins - A, C, Minerals - Chromium, Zinc, Magnesium Hydrochloric Acid Thyroxine Tetroiodothyronine (T4) |
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| Antagonists | Copper, Alcohol, Pharmaceuticals (various), Smoking, and many others. | ||||||
| Optimum Time | With meals | ||||||
| Food Sources | Brewer’s Yeast | Organ Meats | Green Leafy Vegetables | Grains | Legumes | ||
| Practitioner Products | Eagle
Tresos*B Tablets Contains many other constituents – is a multivitamin/ mineral tablet. |
Nutrisearch
SF88 Multivitamin multimineral complex. |
Metagenics
Multigenics Multivitamin multimineral complex. |
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| Justification | Comes as part of a well balanced vitamin/mineral supplement. With significant quantities of each B vitamin and many co-factors /synergists. | Similar range of constituents as Tresos but generally in lower amounts. | Complete
range of constituents but in significantly lower dosage to the other
two. However, the constituents remain in proportion with each other.
Also can take a number of tablets throughout the day due to lower toxic risk which spreads intake over day. |
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| Prescription Range | All
B vitamins are well above RDI and range from healthy to
supernutrition levels.
Recommended dose 1 tablet daily with meal. |
As
per Tresos*B.
Recommended dose one tablet daily. |
Single
tablet is above RDI but not in supernutrition range.
Recommended dose one or two tablets three times a day after meals. This will put dose range into healthy and supernutrition range. Lowered allergenics thus lower risk of reaction. |
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| Practical Considerations | Available in 50 & 150 tablets | May cause slight nausea due to B3. | 90
tablets per bottle.
Have to take more throughout the day rather than just one. Could present problems with compliance. Contains b-carotene not Vitamin A thus lowered toxicity risk. |
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| Contraindications | Must limit intake because of Vitamin A content at 2500iu. | Hypersensitivity
to any ingredient.
Recommended start with ˝ a tablet. Should be taken separately to prescribed medications. Caution: Vitamin A at 2500iu |
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| Over-the-Counter | Hilton Lifestream – Executive B-Plus Tablets | ||||||
| Justification | They
have given thought to the ratios of B vitamins, other OTC products
appear to use equal amounts of all Bs.
Contains all B vitamins in proportion including Biotin, Choline, Inositol, herbs, and some minerals. |
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