Deva Vegan Vitamins Daily Multivitamin & Mineral Supplement 90 tablets (Pack of 2)
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<p>Always consult your doctor before taking any dietary supplement.</p>
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<p><strong>Food Sensitivity</strong></p><p>Free of yeast, wheat, gluten, sugar, salt, hexane, dairy, egg, fish, shellfish; animal products, byproducts or derivatives.</p>
Ingredients
<p>Cellulose, Croscarmellose Sodium, Vegetable Stearic Acid, Vegetable Magnesium Stearate, Silica, Chlorophyll Coating (All of the ingredients are from non-animal sources).</p>
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Ethan –
3 months worth of Vegan vitamins, you only have to take 1 daily which is great for those that don’t want to have to scoop handfuls of vitamins down their throats every single day, there are a couple areas where they lack specifically and in descending order if importance Calcium (10%), Biotin (25%), Magnesium (10%), Zinc (73%) and Copper (10%) **percentages for daily value. The Calcium particularly because it is derived from (calcium carbonate) which based on studies is one of the least effective sources and your body may or may not absorb it so it is important especially if you are vegan to find another secondary vitamin too support this preferably calcium malate, chelate and citrate derived from seaweed which is more beneficial and nutritious to you body and for bone health. Biotin is another very important one because it supports hair health I’m not sure why they skimped on this and it’s hard to really consider this a whole vitamin especially advertising it as vegan when it is missing essential vitamins that vegans are going to be missing primarily in their diet calcium and biotin are primarily found in (dairy and eggs/meat) so if you are going to create a vegan vitamin these are some of the nutrients you should be specifically focusing on as a vegan diet typically already rich in things like vitamin A, C and iron which are primarily found in vegtables. You can get small amounts of calcium from nuts, soy (tofu), broccoli, sesame seeds but you most definitely should be looking at taking a vitamin because you likely won’t be getting enough daily look towards Seaweed primarily as it’s a viable source. I think this is a great multivitamin that has a lot of your necessary nutrients but I wouldn’t consider it a while vitamin it should be taken with others because it’s lacking in certain areas but for a one-a-day it is an excellent source of many different essentials.As far as it’s size which I included a photo of they are relatively smooth and easy to swallow I would say they are medium sized if you can’t swallow larger vitamins these might not be for you, they have a sort of iron-y taste almost metallic but obviously won’t be noticable as long as you swallow, they are definitely still worth getting.
Alexis –
Love that these have some veg and fruit and are not super expensive like other brands, and vegan! I will def buy again.
Sri Ananda Sarvasri –
We tried to get all our nutrition from foods. We bought the best quality organic foods we could afford and all our meals were home-cooked. I have lived this way for decades. Yet, I could feel my health slipping over the years. Recently, I began to do research into the quality of our soils and current agricultural practices, both conventional and organic. I began testing all the produce we brought home with a Brix refractometer. What I discovered was shocking. Practically all the foods on the market, including organic foods, are mostly junk, with very few exceptions. This is because of our agricultural practices – we do not amend the soil with minerals that have been removed through cropping.Take out 70 minerals and put in three (NPK), and do that for 100 years and you have some idea of the pitiful condition of our current agricultural soils worldwide. Ever since the so-called “green revolution” which was really our conversion to chemical agriculture, all of the soils that have been farmed this way have become mineral depleted. Organic crop production is no better, because they also do not amend the soil with a balanced ratio of minerals, and they also grow crops with excess nitrogen and potassium that just makes big crops that are watery and mineral depleted.My conclusion was that it is currently impossible to get all of our vitamins and minerals we need from food, even organic food. I tried taking these supplements along with my wife and we both noticed significant improvements in our health within 3 to 4 days. We noticed that we healed faster from bug bites and minor scratches (from gardening), our skin improved substantially, and cognitively, our memory was better and faster.I still don’t believe we can get all the nutrition we need from supplements. There are too many nutritional factors that cannot be put into a pill. But until we change our agricultural practices, supplementation is a necessity. Even this rather complete multi-mineral, multi-vitamin supplement is not sufficient. We need to add a calcium-magnesium supplement, because no company adds sufficient calcium and magnesium to their multi-vitamin-mineral products. It would make the pill too big. So we need to add a separate calcium-magnesium supplement.The ultimate solution is biological agriculture, sometimes referred to as bionutrient agriculture or eco-agriculture. This form of agriculture replaces minerals in the ideal ratio. It is non-toxic to soil life. With this mineral-balancing agriculture it is possible to grow abundant, very high nutrient-dense foods, at much lower cost than either chemical or organic agriculture. Pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides become unnecessary. Properly mineralized crops develop a powerful immune system. I believe the destruction of our soils and the reduced mineral content of our foods combined with processed junk foods is responsible for the epidemic levels of degenerative disease we see today, including mental illness and cognitive decline.I thought it was enough to live a non-toxic lifestyle, eat right, eat organic, exercise moderately, and that would be enough. I even wrote a book on natural healthcare (Extraordinary Healthcare). But it is not enough. Until we restore our soils, we need to focus on getting the fundamental minerals (the basic elements on the periodic chart that we need) in the right proportions. For us, this supplement was a good choice.