#1 Liquid Vitamin Myth

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#1 Liquid Vitamin Myth

Copyright 2005 Weigum

Liquid vitamins have been taking the vitamin supplement

spot light. Questionable facts and liquid vitamin claims

have plagued the minds of many. The vitamin absorption

truth has finally arrived.

The most controversial liquid vitamin myth has to be

vitamin absorption superiority. Pill form vitamins offer

up to 30% absorption rates while liquid vitamins boast a

90% absorption rate. It is time to prove or disprove this

fact in a visual manner.

The fact testing approach performed involves a very simple

experiment. The experiment began with a theory. For a

nutrient to be absorbed into the blood stream, it will have

to be completely simplified before passing through the

body’s membranes; the villi in the small intestine or the

mucous membrane. With this in mind, a pill must be

simplified before any nutrient absorption can take place.

This will limit the pill form vitamin to basically one

pathway of entry into the blood stream; the small intestine.

Liquid vitamins fortunately increase the number of entry

pathways into the body which allows for a better absorption

rate. A liquid vitamin is already in simplest form. As

you drink the liquid vitamin, absorption is already taking

place in your mouth’s mucous membrane as well as through

tissue in your esophagus.

Now, vitamin absorption has to be more than theory. Visual

proof of the vitamin supplements ability to pass through a

very small membrane has to be possible. With a few items

from your kitchen, visual proof is finally possible. A

coffee filter can simulate the permeable membrane nutrients

must pass through in our bodies. Lemon juice has a pH

level comparable to stomach acid. Stomach acid pH levels

can range from 1 to 3 depending on conditions in the

stomach. Lemon juice has a pH level of 2.3. Two vitamins

were chosen based on high popularity and availability but

will be kept anonymous to preserve the universal nature of

this experiment.

With the vitamin absorption experiment planning complete,

the experiment was performed leaving only visual vitamin

absorption facts behind. All components were weighed

before and after the experiment. Both vitamins spent equal

time in the stomach acid equivalent as well as filtering

through the coffee filter. The experiment time frames were

meant to simulate digestion as closely as possible which

takes approximately 2-4 hours in the stomach.

After the filtering process was complete, the vitamin

absorption facts were finally visually displayed. The

weight analysis revealed 0.2 of an ounce filtered from the

liquid vitamin supplement and 0.8 of an ounce filtered from

the pill form vitamin. This coincides with the absorption

rate facts put to the test. Visual proof of the liquid

vitamins ability to absorb approximately 3 to 4 times more

efficiently than a pill form vitamin resides in the coffee

filter.

About the Author:

Dan is a health conscious webmaster searching for answers

to health issues that affect everyone everyday. Are you

interested in the results of this experiment? View the

vitamin absorption experiment slideshow at

http://www.vitaminmaniac.com/vitamin-absorption-comparison.h

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