Wellesse liquid multivitamin

Kelly, what do you think of Building Blocks Multivitamin?  Thanks!

I think those are just fine.

I use Building Blocks vitamins! Not to pimp my blog (but pimping my blog), in the New Year they are doing a BIG giveaway with Bariatric Foodie so if you aren't already a reader, get with us!

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 We got samples of three of the Wellesse products at the OH convention in Cincy, but they were just. calcium and D, some glucosamine, and.... hmmm... I cannot remember what the third one was. Not a multivitamin, bough.  The taste of all of them was hideous and I did not finish ANY of the samples (which were anywhere from 2-6 servings).  

Lora

I read a thread here once, that said the manufacturer of Wellesse said the calcium is 80% Calcium Citrate so there should be 800mg of calcium citrate per serving. I use it once a day as my calcium supplement (I also use Citrical and a chewable) and count it as 500mg.

The probelm with using it once a day - is that we cab absorb only app 500 mg of calcium at a dosage. The rest ends up pretty much in the colon.   So try to divide the dosage into at least 2.

THey say it has 80% of calcium citrate. Ask tehm to provide you that in writting... I am pretty sure they will not...

I'll out myself as "the friend" who asked about Wellesse. They contacted me about doing a Bariatric Foodie review and giveaway and I really feel like since in our community peer-to-peer reviews carry so much weight, it's my responsibility to check out anything I review.

But it turned out to be a good lesson to me in really delving into a vitamin product and how they are marketed. The website lists the ASMBS recommendations even though many of their products are in direct violation of them (for instance, their calcium dosage is two doses of 1000 mg calcium but the ASMBS says for best absorption we should take throughout the day in 5-600 mg increments AND there is the issue [that I don't fully understand admittedly] of the type of calcium used).

Thankfully we have folks like Kelly, Pam and Andrea who have made it their business to know the in's and out's of vitamins and I thank them for lending their expertise to us! I am also blessed to have a NUT who will vet vitamins for me before I choose to buy them.

I use Building Blocks vitamins and even then my NUT did the 20 questions thing and helped me develop a schedule that will work for me. So far so good on my labs and how I feel (my deficiencies were starting to present in physical symptoms).

Beware the products you use! They are not all good for us!

Nik, the issue with the type of calcium is kinda like, you know how there are about a million different varieties of apples?  Red delicious, golden delicious, granny smith, etc?  And some are supposed to be good for pies and some are good for applesauce and some are good just to slice and eat raw?  And I have no clue which is good for what, but I bet you do.

So there are not as many kinds of calcium as there are apples, but some kinds are good for RNY folks and some are not.  They work in different ways in the body.