- After showing the inferiority of Centrum Multi-Vitamins
the last time, I felt I could stay away from the subject of cheaply produced
"Grocery-store" vitamins for a while... but no. Duplicitously
insane TV & radio adds keep assaulting (insulting?) me with their disingenuousness,
their lies & their obfuscation. I'm provoked, reader, compelled
to vent!
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- This time it's "One-a-Day Men's with Lycopene
& *Specially-formulated* Selenium for prostate health," dragged
up for righteous assessment. We'll forget for a moment that it is
the aggregate diet itself aggravating the persecuted prostate; the fact
you'd be further sold an inferior product to address same is outrage on
top of insult and injury.
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- Just like the "Centrum" described previously,
all the other ingredients in "One-a-Day" are the cheapest
and most artificial crap available...a few examples to remind you:
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- (a). The Vitamin E is the synthetic "Double-molecule"
(dl-alpha) which is very poorly absorbed...as opposed to the natural "Single-molecule"
(d-alpha) which is very well absorbed.
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- (b). The Minerals are all harsh Inorganic Salts
like Carbonate & Oxide! These are poorly absorbed when they are
absorbed at all. They are in abject opposition to the far superior
Organic Chelated Minerals... like Krebs Cycle, Amino Acid (Albion
process), Citrate & others -- just to remind.
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- (c). The Vitamin D is the inferior form D-2, found
in milk... unlike the superior form D-3 found in Cod-Liver Oil, Quality
supplements & that which is made by the Sun. One of the more
important Vit. D jobs is to facilitate the absorption of Calcium;
however, D-2 is poorly suited for this task (Got Milk?)... D-3,
on the other hand, works great!
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- That's just review. Here's the problem with their
Lycopene & Selenium specifically:
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- 1... Lycopene - A Powerful antioxidant found it
tomatoes that's good for your heart & prostate...
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- (a). FORM - One-a-Day (OaD) uses an artificial
form made from petroleum! Natural lycopene, under a patented process
called "Lyco-Mato" is the kind used in most of the superior brands.
It's not expensive.
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- (b). DOSAGE - If you get a separate Lycopene supplement
(not in a Multi) it will generally be a 10mg (10,000mcg) dose. If
you get a quality Multi with Lycopene (not a grocery-store brand) it will
usually have from 2mg (2,000mcg) to about 5mg (5,000mcg) of Lyco-Mato.
I would consider 2000mcg of Lycopene just about the minimum therapeutic
dose.
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- I'm sure the reader will be something less than surprised
to discover that OaD only has 600mcg of artificial Lycopene... reminiscent
of "This food is terrible...Yeah, and there's not much of it"!
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- Seriously, this is only having enough in it so they can
say it's in there, reader! It's not DOING much, if anything.
There's not enough in the first place and it's the inferior form to begin
with, in the second.
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- I did find one Multi-Vitamin, prostate formula that
was even lower than One-a Day, at only 300mcg of Lycopene...go ahead
and guess the brand...Very Good, you're right... Centrum... Prostate
Formula. They exceed the low standard they set for themselves.
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- In fact, I went back to the OaD web-site and chuckled
when I noticed that they were bragging about having twice as much Lycopene
as Centrum... yeah, but if you take a teeny-tiny tic-dropping and multiply
it by 2...you have 2 teeny-tiny tic-droppings. Twice almost nothing,
is still almost nothing. Corporate America spits in your face, reader!
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- 2... Selenium - VERY powerful antioxidant &
essential trace mineral... good for your heart, prostate & protects
you from cancer. I consider Selenium one of the top 3 antioxidants
found in nature.
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- (a). FORM - The OaD ads claim their Men's Multi uses
a "Specially-formulated" Selenium for your prostate. This
is fatuous Crapola, Folks.
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- There is nothing special about putting selenium
in a Multi, they all have it... and there is certainly nothing special
about the form in OaD. In fact, OaD uses Sodium Selenate, which
is not normally present in foods, as opposed to the Amino Acid Chelated
form, Selenomethionine -- which is! How special is that?
Moreover, a study at Iowa State University found that selenate
was less effective than selenomethionine to correct a deficiency.
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- As I wrote, Selenomethionine is the principal form of
selenium found in foods. Selenomethionine is virtually 100% absorbed and
is well retained as compared to the inferior inorganic selenium form, which,
like any other garbage, is rapidly excreted.
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- (b). DOSAGE - Maybe the "Special-formulation"
was the amount of selenium... considering OaD uses 105mcg, which is 35mcg
more than the minimun recommended dose of 70mcg! The only problem
with that, is there are many Multi's that have 150mcg up to about 300mcg
and they are just "regular" Multi's ...not "Special"
Prostate formulas! This is not truth in advertising! This
is meaningless bupkis of same.
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- Most Holistic Practitioners realize that a good therapeutic
dose of Selenium should be a minimum of 200mcg & that 400mcg is even
better...so OaD's, at 105mcg of inferior Selenium, is singularly UN-impressive.
Decidedly non-special!
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- CAUTION : I wouldn't take over 400mcg of Selenium
because just 3 or 4 hundred more can have some fairly negative effects
if this extra high dose is taken for a while. On the other hand,
if I had cancer, I wouldn't hesitate to take about 600mcg daily, at 200mcg
x 3...
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- As far as "prostate" formulas go? One-a-Day
Men's, with its 105mcg of Selenate & 600mcg of Lycopene... does not
even rise to the level of Mediocre, much less being considered "Special".
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- I'm sure there are those who think this is not such a
big deal... but imagine the following scenario:
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- What if you take One-a-Day Men's for 25 years thinking
that you are protected from any untoward Prostate difficulties. At
50 you marry your obligatory second (or 3rd) wife who is only 29
and still very much a "Hottie".
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 Surprise! Six months in you have to have prostate
surgery... leaving you something less than heroic "Woody-wise"
and requiring that you to "chain-pound" Viagra as if they
were Tic-Tac's just to get the old woody into the freaking garage!
Well, shortly after you go blind abusing the little blue helpers?
You have a massive stroke mid-coitus.
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- That little episode leaves you a drooling mass suitable
only to being pushed around in a wheelchair by your, soon-to-be-ex, wife...
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- I suspect inadequate and inferior Lycopene & Selenium
become a very big deal at that point, eh? For want of a nail the
shoe was lost? Exactly. Use a quality nail now, reader, or
wind up with bare feet out in the snow... with your derelict woody.
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- Well be.
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- Alan D. Graham
- (334) 774-0395
- alan068@centurytel.net
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