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The Willner Window Product Reference Catalog, Summer 2014
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Cedarwood (Himalayan)
1 fl oz, # 63003
Cinnamon Leaf
1 fl oz, #62679
Clove
1 fl oz, #63004
Eucalyptus
1 fl oz, #62680
4 fl oz, #62681
Grapefruit (Pink)
1 fl oz, #62710
Lavender (French)
1 fl oz, #63005
4 fl oz, #62787
Lavender (Bulgarian)
1 fl oz, #62815
Lemon
1 fl oz, #63006
Orange (Sweet)
1 fl oz, #62820
Oregano
1 fl oz, #62821
Patchouli
1 fl oz, #62822
Peppermint
1 fl oz, #62884
4 fl oz, #63007
Rosemary
1 fl oz, #63008
Tea Tree (Australian)
1 fl oz, #63009
4 fl oz, #63010
Ylang Ylang
1 fl oz, #63011
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ed. If you assume that most of the
content of the one-per-day vitamin
will be absorbed in an hour or two
and metabolized and excreted in
two or three more hours, you will
certainly realize that within a half-
day, most of what you took will be
gone.
• Lack of calcium and magnesium.
It is easy to fit 10 milligrams of iron
or 15 milligrams of zinc into one
tablet, along with the vitamins. But
for calcium and magnesium, it is a
different story. The amounts needed
to provide the required level of
these two essential nutrients is too
great to fit into one, or even two,
multivitamin tablets.
All one-per-day multivitamin
products suffer from these two seri-
ous deficiencies. It does not matter
what brand or what source you look
at. Because they are taken only once
daily, your body gets only limited
benefit, and much of what is in the
tablet is wasted. And unless you
take a separate calcium-magnesium
supplement, you are depriving your
body of two important nutrients—
nutrients certainly no less important
than the vitamins.
As we said above, a B-complex is
not a daily multivitamin. While
such a product may indeed contain
plenty of B vitamins, it does not
contain many other important nutri-
ents, such as vitamin A, carotenoids,
vitamin E, zinc, copper, and seleni-
um.
Even the most potent one-per-day
multivitamin products may be poor
choices in this regard. People think
they are taking a one-a-day multivi-
tamin when they are not. This type
of product might be more correctly
categorized as a B-complex rather
than a multivitamin.
Why is this? Well, a typical one-
per-day tablet provides amounts of
B vitamins that range from 3,750
percent to 5,000 percent Daily
Value, while supplying only 25 per-
cent Daily Value of biotin, 67 per-
cent of zinc, 35 percent of selenium,
21 percent of chromium, and 50
percent of copper. While this type of
product does indeed supply some of
the fat-soluble vitamins, such as
vitamins A and E, it certainly is not
a balanced one-per-day type of for-
mula. Perhaps it could best be called
a high-potency B-complex one-per-
day multivitamin. There may be
occasions when a product of this
type is appropriate, but not when
you are looking for a balanced mul-
tivitamin to serve as the cornerstone
of your supplement program.
So far, we have had nothing posi-
tive to say about the one-per-day
type of product. Can we say some-
thing positive? Yes—it beats taking
nothing!
The fact is that there are some peo-
ple who adamantly refuse to take
more than one tablet or capsule per
day in spite of anything they are
told. It is just too much trouble.
Why worry about osteoporosis,
heart disease, diabetes, and cancer
now? Many, especially those in
their younger years, make the mis-
take of thinking of these as distant
concerns, to be addressed only later
in life, in spite of the overwhelming
evidence to the contrary. Some peo-
ple insist that they cannot be both-
ered with the taking of “pills” more
than one time per day.
For these people, I suggest one of
the following approaches. Go ahead
and take your one-per-day multi, but
at the very least, take a separate cal-
cium-magnesium supplement at the
same time. If you can swallow only
one additional tablet, use the type of
calcium-magnesium product that
contains around 500 milligrams of
calcium and 250 milligrams of mag-
nesium per tablet and take it with a
meal.
Even better, especially from a con-
venience standpoint, would be to
take only one or two of the com-
plete, four-to-six-per-day type of
product. It could easily be argued
that one would derive greater bene-
fit from taking one-half to one-quar-
ter of the daily dose of a four-per-
day multivitamin-multimineral than
taking one one-per-day multi. The
primary reason is that it would be
better to get 250 milligrams of cal-
cium and 125 milligrams of magne-
sium and only 10 to 15 milligrams
of each B vitamin than to get 25 to
50 milligrams of each B vitamin and
an insignificant amount of calcium
and magnesium.
Two-Per-Day Multivitamins
As the name implies, two-per-day
multivitamins are designed for a
twice-daily dosage. This obviously
negates one of the criticisms of the
one-a-day product, assuming that
one tablet or capsule is taken in the
morning and the other in the
evening. Taking two at one time
would defeat the purpose.
However, the other problem—the
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As the name suggests, this type of
multi is designed for a once-per-day
dosage. While this may seem con-
venient to some, the disadvantages
of products of this type are very sig-
nificant:
• Limited effectiveness. Most of
the nutrients contained in a multi-
vitamin formula are water-soluble.
This means that once they are
absorbed, they are not stored in the
body. Any excess over what is not
used at the moment will be excret-
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The Best Supplements For Your Health:
Chapter 2: How to Choose The Right
Supplement
New, Improved Willvite
Multivitamin/Multimineral Tablets
How do you make the best even better?
Incorporate the latest research!
• Reduce calcium from 1000mg to 800 mg
• Increase magnesium from 500mg to 600 mg
• Increase vitamin D3 from 400 IU to 800 IU
• Increase vitamin B12 from 100 mcg to 200 mcg
• Reduce selenium from 200 mcg to 100 mcg
• Reduce chromium from 200 mcg to 100 mcg
• Use chelates and active coenzyme forms
• Add natural lycopene, 2 mg
• Increase lutein from 1 mg to 2 mg
• Increase CoQ10 level from 5 mg to 20 mg
• Increase levels of B-vitamins by 20%
• Reduce zinc to 20 mg
Willvite is a unique, specially designed multivitamin-multimineral
supplement, designed to satisfy the needs of those seeking to limit their
supplement intake to as few products as possible, as well as those looking
for the best "foundation" formula to which they can add specific nutrients
relative to their individual health requirements.
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