a chance to make out own supplement

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Hi I have ordered some of my sons supplements from Ourkids.com. The

service was awesome and the shipping was fast! I recieved an e-mail

asking if I could give a recommendation on what parents might like to

see Our Kids make as a new supplement formulation. This is what I

said. A multi vitamin that leaves out vitamin A because most parents

already supplement this with CLO. And leave out calcium and magnesium

if it will have zinc, so parents can supplement these on there own if

needed. I know many children are actually high in calcium but my son

is low. Best to supplement zinc and calcium seperate.Also I asked for

the RDA to be closer to normal. This making it easier to give the

supplements 4 times a day without having to break up capsules as much

etc. If a child is low in something a parent can add more of that

supplement on there own.I have so many pills I have to split up right

now its driving me crazy lol.. I would love some input from everyone

of this is something you would be interested in. Here is the e-mail

he sent me.

Hi ,

Thank you for your thoughts. You bring up a lot of good points.

> The minerals calcium, zinc and magnesium are best absorbed

separate.

I have often heard this from parents, but I can not find any clinical

data

to back up the need for doing this. Are you aware of any research on

this?

Judging from the needs that you expressed, it would be the most

feasible

to design a product that has zinc and all of thee micro-minerals, and

all

vitamins except Vitamin A and D.

All of these ingredients would be at or near the RDA levels. Then

parents

can buy a separate calcium supplement and a separate magnesium

supplement.

Vitamins A and D would come from cod liver oil.

I would consider making such a product if I had more data that showed

that

many parents would be interested in such a product.

Could you set up an informal poll on the various chat sites that you

frequent, to ask parents if they would buy such a product? If so,

also

ask if they would prefer capsules, or powder.