Men’s Vitamins Are Supposed To Be Good For Them

The vitamin and general nutritional supplement industry is wildly unregulated and far more concerned with making a fast buck than the overall health of its customers.  After all, most of the content on TV--news, radio, advertisements--tells us that we should either do everything we can to lose weight, or eat another whole chicken that’s been breaded and deep fried, so there is little worry that the customers will suddenly disappear.

Unless those customers suddenly realize how few vitamins and minerals are actually in the supplements they buy and consume with religious fervor in hopes of counteracting that last bag of potato chips.  Because of the way the supplement industry works, the actual vitamin content in a "multi-vitamin" could be none at all.  Or if there is, it may be so chemically altered as to be of no use to the body.

Nor does one vitamin fit all. Men’s vitamins need to fit the range of their health needs and goals, along with actually containing what they’re supposed to.  One supplement may not fit the needs of every man, which is as much of a waste of money as buying a product that has no nutritional value whatsoever.

If you want vitamins that actually contain, well, vitamins, it is important to do your research.  One clue is that what you want and what your body needs may not be the cheapest product on the market.  But spending more money for something is actually more economical than spending a little money for nothing.  Do the math.

You should also look into how the men’s vitamins are made.  Do they contain extracts from real food, or chemically created strings of molecules that mimic fruits and vegetables?  We know what the long-term impact of ingesting fruits and vegetables are--good health.  The long-term effects of ingesting artificial substances have yet to be totally ascertained, but the results don’t look good.