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Looking at one of the Centrum multivitamins:

https://www.centrum.com/content/dam/cf-consumer-healthcare/bp-wellness-centrum/en_US/products/product-01/MenupausaSupport/pdfs/Centrum-Complete-Multivitamin-Hot-Flash-Support.pdf

Vitamin A (as vitamin A acetate and as 40% beta-carotene) -> prefer beef liver or cod liver for vitamin A. My understanding is that the beta-carotene is useless if you don't have the gut bacteria to convert it.

Niacin (as niacinamide) - good low flush

Folate (as folic acid) - NOT good if you have the MTHFR mutation.

Vitamin B12 (as cyanocobalamin) - NOT good - builds up cyanide. I use the methylcobalamin or a multi-version with adenocobalamin. Also if you really need it (which our family does - one of my relatives ended up hearing voices and needing shots), you need it sublingually

Magnesium (as magnesium oxide) - NOT absorbable, many other versions are better

Zinc (as zinc oxide) - NOT absorbable and can make you want to vomit. Zinc picolinate is better

So yeah. How about we run a study of grass fed beef liver (which really is kind of a multivitamin - and comes in capsule form) against Centrum and do blood tests before/after and see what happens??

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