The study was presented at a meeting entitled Multi-vitamins and Public Health: Exploring the Evidence. This two-day meeting, held in Washington, D.C., brought together leading health and nutrition experts from government agencies, top research universities and health advocacy organizations to examine current science supporting daily multi-vitamin use and help chart the course for future research. The panel of experts at the meeting reviewed the current scientific evidence and came to the following conclusions:
 

• “Most Americans do not get optimal amounts of key micronutrients through diet alone, despite the evidence that poor nutritional status increases the risk of birth defects, infections and chronic disease;
• Daily multi-vitamins should be recommended to help close this nutritional gap;
• Multi-vitamins are safe, affordable, cost-effective and accessible;
• There is promising evidence supporting multi-vitamin use for the prevention of some chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, making it prudent to recommend that all adults take a daily multi-vitamin.”

The need for a daily multi-vitamin has been clearly established. Several medical journals have published articles about the advisability of taking multi-vitamins on a regular basis. The medical community appears to now accept that taking a multi-vitamin daily may be beneficial. Commentaries in both the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association recommended taking a daily multi-vitamin as a preventative measure for health.

What these journals don't address is the difference in quality of multi-vitamin and mineral products. The RDA speaks of vitamin and mineral quantities as if all forms have equal ability to be absorbed and used by the body. Everyone seems to want to know how many micrograms or milligrams of a vitamin or mineral to take without regard to the form. Few physicians, let alone the general public, understand that there is a significant difference between whole food and synthetic vitamins and that amino acid chelates are absorbed differently than inorganic salts.

The potency or effectiveness of a product is not necessarily determined by how high the milligram level is. Potency is determined by bioavailability. A bio available nutrient is one that can be absorbed and used by the cells of the body. In other words, it doesn't make any difference how much of a nutrient is listed on the label if it isn't absorbed or used by the body. It is quality, not quantity that counts.

Quality means providing bio available vitamins and minerals that result in cellular nutrition. Just ingesting these nutrients is not enough. The nutrients must be readily absorbable and bio available; otherwise, they are nothing more than waste material. The most bio available form of a mineral is an Albion amino acid chelate, and the most bio available, complete source of vitamins is whole food complexes. If optimal nutrition is your goal, be sure that your supplements contain these bio available sources of nutrients.

Rather than making the labels look impressive with large milligram amounts of vitamins and minerals, Infinity2 formulates its products based on actual needs - choosing the highest quality ingredients that ensure the nutrients in the product can be absorbed and used by the body.

The most bioavailable form of minerals is Albion amino acid chelates, and the most bioavailable, complete source of vitamins are whole food complexes.