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What's the reason why a well prepared one is prescription based and a useless one OTC?
by Aardwolf 6y ago
What's the reason why a well prepared one is prescription based and a useless one OTC?
- treeman79 6y ago1,000u daily pill vs 50,0000u Weekly Unlikely, but you can Overdose on it. I have a prescription for it. Still prefer daily pill.
- SoSoRoCoCo 6y agoI don't know, and I would like to.
- arcticbull 6y agoBear in mind that vitamins and supplements are not regulated by the FDA and manufacturers are largely left to their own devices, with vastly varying results. For instance, in magnesium supplementation, all sorts of different formations exist -- and they're not particularly well studied. Some of them are pretty much totally ineffective. Here's a good study demonstrating the variability in terms of bioavailability of magnesium from different formulations -- ranging from 0% to 100% of the magnesium contained in the pill actually accessible to the body. [1] For instance, Nature's Bounty comes out bottom of the pack, pretty much totally useless (19% bioavailable) [2], whereas Magnerot Classic [3] seems to be best in class (90% bioavailable) [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6683096/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6683096/ [2] https://www.amazon.com/Natures-Bounty-Magnesium-Supplement-Vegetarian/dp/B00H5PJ0HW https://www.amazon.com/Natures-Bounty-Magnesium-Supplement-V... [3] https://www.woerwagpharma.de/de/produkte/produkt/magnerot-classic-n https://www.woerwagpharma.de/de/produkte/produkt/magnerot-cl...