Liquid Vitamin Mineral

Are liquid vitamin & mineral supplements better for us than vitamin & mineral pills?

Internet marketers and MLM distributors like to promote liquid vitamin & mineral formulas and claim that colloidal, sub-colloidal and now micro-colloidal liquid formulas are far easier for the body to absorb than multi-vit & mineral tablets? Is there any truth in this, or is a liquid formula just another over-hyped "snake oil"? Tell me more about your experience with them. Tablets become liquid when digested in the gastro-intestinal tract (or gut if you prefer).Surely they will then absorb quickly after they are liquefied? And what about the so-called natural ingredients mined from primeval forests discovered in Utah, then turned into liquid form by the Dead Doctor story-teller's company? Are they any better than the "artificial" synthesized ingredients in tablets?

Public Comments

1. The absorption rate will obviously be quicker with the liquid form but the content is the same whether in liquid or pill form.
2. The pills are better. I personally don't trust liquid health supplements. When articificial minerals and vitamins are put into liquid form, they can sometimes become unstable solutions which turn into waste. Which 20 minutes after taking them may result in a massive diarhea. They just advertise them as better so that people who don't understand how they work get ripped off.