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Join Date: Aug 2006
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Wisest Elder Ever
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Great Lakes
Posts: 33,508
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re Liquimax:
Here are the ingredients:
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# Vitamin A 2,500 I.U., Vitamin C 500mg, Vitamin D 400 I.U., Vitamin E 60 I.U., Thiamin 3 mg, Riboflavin 3.4 mg, Niacin 25 mg, Vitamin B6 4 mg, Folic Acid 400 mcg, Vitamin B12 12 mcg, Pantothenic Acid 20 mg, Calcium 20 mg, Magnesium 8 mg, Zinc 1.5 mg, Selenium 7 mcg, Copper 0.2 mg, Manganese 0.2 mg, Chromium 12 mcg, Potassium 70 mg, Citrus Bioflavonoids 10 mg, Vanadium 500 mcg
# Proprietary Herbal Complex 20 mg
(Natural Polysaccharide Fiber, Green Tea Extract, Ginkgo Biloba Leaf, Red Raspberry Extract, Grape Seed Extract, Pau d’Arco Bark Extract, Suma Root, Nopal Cactus Fiber, Grape Skin Extract, White Willow Bark Extract, Citrus Pectin, Myrrh, Bromelain, Royal Jelly, Herbal Cat’s Claw Powder Extract, Chuchuhuasi
# Proprietary Healthy Aging Complex 10 mg
(Lutein Esters Complex, Coenzyme Q10, Aloe Vera Concentrate, Lycopene)
# Proprietary Soy Amino Acid Complex 10 mg
(Lysine, Glutamic Acid, Aspartic Acid, Taurine, Leucine, Arginine, Phenylalanine, Serine, Proline, Valine, Isoleucine, Glycine, Threonine, Tyrosine, Histidine, Methionine, Cysteine)
# Essential Fatty Acids (Omega 3, 6, 9) (Flaxseed Oil Powder) 3 mg
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from http://www.leiner.com/LEN_OurProduct...ProductID=1005
The bolded items, I find astonishing low. 3mg of EFAs? EFAs are a macronutrient, you need them in gram size. Typically EPA would start at 120mg in a 1 gram capsule. Flax oil would be 1 gram minimum. So 3 mg is rather a joke. 10mg of Amino Acids total? 1mg each...? also a pittance.
Products with proprietary mixtures in general sound nice, but rarely deliver much of value.
Vit D and folic acid are good, but the rest are in the RDA value range, and Chromium and Selenium extremely low. The Vit A is not explained as retinol or betacarotene either. (sometimes there is a mix of both).
Liquid products usually cost more, than tablet forms.
Not all the iron in a product is absorbed. (unless you have a genetic error called hemochromatosis). Most commercial iron products are made to be
therapeutically useful. FDA controls labeling on all iron. What does your label say as to elemental value? What product is it?
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