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Well I don't take a multivitamin, I take individual vitamins (a tablet of C, a B complex caplet, a gelcap of E, and so on). Regarding your second paragraph, I haven't the slightest idea what you're talking about. ---------- >From: Michel Margosis <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: Vitamin C >Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 00:43:37 -0500 > > Michael Kamensky wrote: > >> Part of the reasoning behind this is that C is a water-soluble vitamin and E >> is a fat-soluble vitamin. It's not that the vitamins are incompatible with >> each other, just that they are most effectively absorbed by different means. >> A multivitamin will be absorbed just fine with a well-rounded meal. >> >> Personally I group my vitamins together according to this rule -- I take >> water-soluble ones like C and B's, and Zinc, together with orange juice in >> the morning and fat-soluble ones like E, Beta Carotene, and Selenium (which acts >> jointly with E) with an evening meal. > > I really do not wish to belabor this, but how do you separate your multi vitamins > medications into water soluble (B1, B2, B12, C, etc.) from the fat soluble (A, E, > tocopherols, etc.). > I also assume that zinc and seleniem are taken as salts because metallic zinc is > impossible to digest, and semi-metallic selenium is very toxic. > Michel