Animal Pak overkill?

[JuliusPleaser]

Been taking animal pak for over a year; the thing about it that gets my loyalty is the idea of having ALL kinds of vitamins and minerals, but how much does this help. I only take 1 bag instead of the recommended two bags for one serving. I eat very healthy and certainly get my minerals and vitamins from food.

If that is the case, are vitamin supplements useless?

Also, there is the idea that most vitamin tabs are just pissed out; and this seems evident when you take Animal Pak because your piss turns neon lol.

Any thoughts or recommendations: Keep taking it or is there a better product?

[Windex]

I use to take multivitamins and specifically AnimalPak for first year and a bit of training. After a lot of back and forth I made the decision this year to stop Multivitamins all together. Seems to always be a hot debated topic.

Few things

(1) Vitamins are either water-soluble or fat-soluble so if you don't take them with food/water then they don't absorb well and you pee them out.
(2) If you have an optimized diet then there should be very few gaps in Vitamins/Minerals
(3) FDA updated %DV and RDI last year and only required companies to be up to date as of July 2018 - meaning the labels are going to be off. Beyond that hard to know if the label is really what it says it is
(4) MultiVit can be detrimental if you are already high in a given vitamin/mineral

I got multiple blood work panels done and just filled in my gaps in deficiencies. Emphasis on multiple because a single test isn't enough of a sample size (first test showed calcium as above range, 2nd and 3rd showed calcium mid/low range). I currently take the following:

Vit D
Calcium/Magnesium Combo
Glucosamine Sulfate


Very simple, 2 deficiencies satisfied and Glucosamine not available from food.

[Ashop]

https://www.livescience.com/19000-vi...ier-death.html

[JuliusPleaser]

indeed.

I don't think there is any copper or iron in animal pak

But I agree with the statement that if the diet's on point then whats the point.

[almostgone]

Been taking animal pak for over a year; the thing about it that gets my loyalty is the idea of having ALL kinds of vitamins and minerals, but how much does this help. I only take 1 bag instead of the recommended two bags for one serving. I eat very healthy and certainly get my minerals and vitamins from food.

If that is the case, are vitamin supplements useless?

Also, there is the idea that most vitamin tabs are just pissed out; and this seems evident when you take Animal Pak because your piss turns neon lol.

Any thoughts or recommendations: Keep taking it or is there a better product?

The yellow is probably coming from the B vitamins. Think I recall that they (and most supplement companies) throw in plenty of B vitamins so you think the stuff is energizing you.
Yeah, I just looked and they give you 833% of the US RDA for B-12 and 9000% in B-6. Some copper and zinc as well.
A solid diet should pretty much cover most of your bases unless there are some health issues. I take magnesium because I take supplemental potassium due to cardiac meds.
As mentioned above, Vitamin D is an important piece of the puzzle/hormone.

[JuliusPleaser]

And I stumbled upon this article https://hub.jhu.edu/2013/12/17/vitam...ht-be-harmful/

[Windex]

Individual supplements are a lot cheaper too - costs me about $60CAD for everything for a year.

[almostgone]

Now that I think about it, the amount of B-6 they put in Animal Pak ( 180mg) is rather unhealthy.

[SocioMachiavelli]

It's been a while since I saw the ingredients on there, but I do recall seeing some vitamins on there with poor bio availability such as magnesium oxide... your body will just dump the majority of these as it has poor absorption rates.

I personally stick with magnesium malate or elemental magnesium at night. Fish oil/vitamin D/ throughout the day.... dextrose and BCAA around my workouts.

If you need all the others and do not have an underlying medical reason like AG's cardic meds there is something wrong with your diet.

[Koreto]

Been taking animal pak for over a year; the thing about it that gets my loyalty is the idea of having ALL kinds of vitamins and minerals, but how much does this help. I only take 1 bag instead of the recommended two bags for one serving. I eat very healthy and certainly get my minerals and vitamins from food.

If that is the case, are vitamin supplements useless?

Also, there is the idea that most vitamin tabs are just pissed out; and this seems evident when you take Animal Pak because your piss turns neon lol.

Any thoughts or recommendations: Keep taking it or is there a better product?

Yeah man my opinion is similar that most vitamin tabs are just pissed out.... I think that it's just a marketing...

But if your diet is full of needed vitamins and minerals i think it's useless

[Ashop]

Yeah man my opinion is similar that most vitamin tabs are just pissed out.... I think that it's just a marketing...

But if your diet is full of needed vitamins and minerals i think it's useless

At this point I would rather get them though foods naturally than using them in supplemental form. If your diet is off or not in order, supplemental vitamins could possibly be beneficial.

[JamesBlunt]

At this point I would rather get them though foods naturally than using them in supplemental form. If your diet is off or not in order, supplemental vitamins could possibly be beneficial.

That's a good way to get vitamins though foods. Well balanced diet should contain foods rich of vitamins/nutrients/fiber etc