Specialized Multivitamin, Vitamer, Mineral For Men! Vitamer PRO was formulated to support you during the times: When your nutrient intake from food is on the lower end - It can help you get closer to or within acceptable ranges of daily requirements for most of the nutrients it contains. Of higher nutrient intake from food - It can help round out your micro-nutrient intake without putting you at super high intake levels that may cause problems. In other words – the goal of Vitamer PRO is to adjust to your lifestyle as multi's were originally intended to do! While you may have a daily routine, certainly your life changes from week to week, month to month and year to year.You eat more of certain foods at different times and also face additional challenges (often without warning). Your body is always trying to adapt so shouldn’t your multi help support your lifestyle instead of just throwing gasoline on the fire, so to speak, by providing a heaping amount of a few select vitamins and/or minerals? QUANTIFIED VITAMERS - TRULY THE GAME CHANGER OK, so it’s very clear by now we feel, based on the research we reviewed, that a proper multi should have amounts of various vitamins and minerals that allow you to stay within an acceptable range of intake without insanely high amounts of any one particular vitamin or mineral. Vitamin & Vitamers The word vitamin is often confused as being a particular molecule, but it is in fact a description of activity.Vitamers are the molecules which have that activity. In other words, vitamers have the vitamin activity or function. Gamma-/Delta-/Alpha-Tocopherols In recent times d-alpha-tocopherol (notice “d”, no “dl” as the “dl” is nowhere near as common as it once was) seems to be the most widely used form of Vitamin E in multis.However, this approach is flawed as just using one vitamer is not how they are consumed in foods and may be creating an imbalance between the vitamers (This is starting to become a theme, isn’t it?) For example, d-alpha-tocopherol has been shown to deplete gamma-tocopherol in plasma and tissues with high consumption. This is yet another example where consuming one vitamer in excessive quantities may end up doing more harm than good. Instead, one should try to consume a mixture of tocopherols, as close as possible to a mixture found in foods.This would include consumption of not only alpha and gamma-tocopherol, but beta- and delta-tocopherol as well. For example, a 100 g serving of almonds can contain around 24.3 to 25.87 mg of alpha-tocopherol, < 0.5 mg of beta-tocopherol, 0.89 to 0.98 mg of gamma-tocopherol and < 0.5 mg of delta-tocopherol. Mega-dosing with these vitamers is also a bad choice, as is the case with any vitamin or mineral. Instead, we must attempt to truly supplement the diet, not replace or exceed realistic intake levels. For example, even those products that contain 200 IU of alpha-tocopherol (equivalent to 134 mg alpha-tocopherol) would require one to consume around three quarters to over 1 lb. of even some of the richest sources of the vitamin, including almonds. I don’t know anyone who eats a pound of almonds a day, do you? Clearly, even when those people in the U.S. who are in the 90th percentile for vitamin E consumption from food sources are only consuming around 10-11 mg, supplementing with large doses of vitamin E seems excessive. The goal should be to reach an adequate level, not consume excessive quantities that may provide no greater benefit and may actually be harmful. Vitamer PRO is the only multi we know of that lists how much Gamma-, Delta- and Alpha-Tocopherols it contains! Alpha-/Beta-Carotene/Lutein/Zeaxanthin/Lycopene It’s likely that you’ve heard beta-carotene being praised, such as early observational data showing an association between high beta-carotene levels and good health, as well as an association between low beta-carotene levels and poor health. It was because of this obse