One Last Vitamin Tip- Absorption....
One Last Vitamin Tip-
(last? Who am I kidding…..
This Horse will die from over-indulgence of grass, long before I stop the infomercials! J )
I used to read all the time on the Grads Board of folks- Not absorbing their Vitamins, Which Vitamins to Take, Avoid, etc…
Thought I’d pass on an old tip from my Doc.
Early on chew them!
That’s why so many of the Docs prescribe Children’s Chew-ables and Tums for Calcium.
These are Great early on, but not enough Calcium or Vitamins Later. Just cruise the Grads Board and read some of the crap that happens to folks who don’t get in enough Vitamins, and you’ll be "All About" some Vitamins!
(not for Banders, it’s not a problem they face)
So, Here’s the tip-
If you don’t get the chewable adult vitamins- like Bariatric Vitamins
Or Centrum Silver or such, you run the risk of the Vitamin passing on by
Your "receptor sites" in your intestines before they have time to dissolve.
A lot of pills go plunk in the toilet from By-passers.
But, you don’t have to keep chewing all of your pills
Or opting for Liquid Vitamins
Once your past those first months and over the surgical trauma.
Take your pill and place it in a cup of warm water.
If after 5 minutes, it’s not dissolving or disintegrating?
Then it will most likely zip right on past your absorption areas
In your intestines while still a solid little pill.
If it doesn’t "break down" in the water, then break it or bite it
Before swallowing.
Side Note:----My Doc isn’t a ‘Nutritionist’
But he came into Bariatric Practice with a major interest in all things "gut related."
He had been a vascular surgeon who had a run in with colon cancer.
Went on to follow up med school with specialist training as a gastroenterologist,
And is "All About" some intestines. Sort of a Man with a Mission.
I love that about him. Sort of the "Born Again Guts Guy!"
When my intestines burst further down the pipe
(Not due to the surgery, but rather my systems response to waking from the anesthesia)
He was like the shoe-makers elves putting me back together.
Now with the Vitamins?
My solution is often just to chew up the Dam things
Whether they were ‘designed’ to be or not.
Sure, it tastes like chewing up a piece of chalk,
But I don’t take for the taste.
A swig of water later,
And even the worst tasting "Urinal-Cake" of a Vitamin is just a memory.
All this to say-
Take your Frickin’ Vitamins, and most importantly--
Make sure you are absorbing them!
Drop one in some water to check yours out.
No one gets points for the number of pills down the crapper!
Best Wishes-
Dx
I used to read all the time on the Grads Board of folks- Not absorbing their Vitamins, Which Vitamins to Take, Avoid, etc…
Thought I’d pass on an old tip from my Doc.
Early on chew them!
That’s why so many of the Docs prescribe Children’s Chew-ables and Tums for Calcium.
These are Great early on, but not enough Calcium or Vitamins Later. Just cruise the Grads Board and read some of the crap that happens to folks who don’t get in enough Vitamins, and you’ll be "All About" some Vitamins!
(not for Banders, it’s not a problem they face)
So, Here’s the tip-
If you don’t get the chewable adult vitamins- like Bariatric Vitamins
Or Centrum Silver or such, you run the risk of the Vitamin passing on by
Your "receptor sites" in your intestines before they have time to dissolve.
A lot of pills go plunk in the toilet from By-passers.
But, you don’t have to keep chewing all of your pills
Or opting for Liquid Vitamins
Once your past those first months and over the surgical trauma.
Take your pill and place it in a cup of warm water.
If after 5 minutes, it’s not dissolving or disintegrating?
Then it will most likely zip right on past your absorption areas
In your intestines while still a solid little pill.
If it doesn’t "break down" in the water, then break it or bite it
Before swallowing.
Side Note:----My Doc isn’t a ‘Nutritionist’
But he came into Bariatric Practice with a major interest in all things "gut related."
He had been a vascular surgeon who had a run in with colon cancer.
Went on to follow up med school with specialist training as a gastroenterologist,
And is "All About" some intestines. Sort of a Man with a Mission.
I love that about him. Sort of the "Born Again Guts Guy!"
When my intestines burst further down the pipe
(Not due to the surgery, but rather my systems response to waking from the anesthesia)
He was like the shoe-makers elves putting me back together.
Now with the Vitamins?
My solution is often just to chew up the Dam things
Whether they were ‘designed’ to be or not.
Sure, it tastes like chewing up a piece of chalk,
But I don’t take for the taste.
A swig of water later,
And even the worst tasting "Urinal-Cake" of a Vitamin is just a memory.
All this to say-
Take your Frickin’ Vitamins, and most importantly--
Make sure you are absorbing them!
Drop one in some water to check yours out.
No one gets points for the number of pills down the crapper!
Best Wishes-
Dx
Capricious; Impulsive, Semi-Predictable 
Thanks DX...I thought I was the only strange one. I carry a mulivitamin, B complex, and a B-12 in my pockets all the time. Besides taking my normal regimen, (still under study as to what is normal, as you point out), I will nibble on these during the day. "I am not strange!!" Well maybe I am...But my labs turned out fine a few weeks ago. Brian
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