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Re:Calorie per Dollar List – Eat for 21 Dollars a Week by zrs6yk on Friday May 24, 2019 @11:17AM (#20002404)
Multivitamins are very nutrient dense and cheap.
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Re:Calorie per Dollar List – Eat for 21 Dollars a Week by cmurf on Friday May 24, 2019 @12:01PM (#20002885)
Yeah but to what degree are they absorbed and used versus just peed out? What is the mechanism by which nutrients are absorbed? Does the gut recognize a nutrient indirectly only because it comes along for the ride with XYZ plant or animal? Or does the gut directly recognize the nutrient?
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Re:Calorie per Dollar List – Eat for 21 Dollars a Week by zrs6yk on Friday May 24, 2019 @12:56PM (#20003382)
Well if in blood test you are diagnosed with vitamin deficiency, it's treated with pills. So they are effective.

1. Take it together with food (containing fat) so it gets dissolved. 2. For each micronutrient check if it's in the best available form, and big enough dose.

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Re:Calorie per Dollar List – Eat for 21 Dollars a Week by bluGill on Friday May 24, 2019 @01:30PM (#20003621)
Sometimes vitamin deficiency is treated will pills. I know people who have to get vitamin shots because pills don't work for their condition.

I always tell people treat vitamin deficiency with a healthy diet, if that doesn't work you have a gut problem and pills won't fix it either. I'm not a doctor, but it is a reasonable claim.

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Re:Calorie per Dollar List – Eat for 21 Dollars a Week by def_true_false on Friday May 24, 2019 @12:44PM (#20003272)
> Yeah but to what degree are they absorbed and used versus just peed out?

Considering multivitamins cost basically nothing, you don't have to care about paying for the stuff you end up peeing out.

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Re:Calorie per Dollar List – Eat for 21 Dollars a Week by QuantumAphid on Friday May 24, 2019 @01:29PM (#20003612)
Multivitamins are not food, at least not natural whole food. They're supplements, as in to supplement any gap in vitamins from eating actual food.
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