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I regularly supplement with 25000iu natural vitamin a but recently I've been looking to ditch the vitamin a in favour of beta carotene - beta carotene converts to vitamin a, has no toxicity levels and also contains antioxidant activity which vitamin a does not so it would apprear on paper that beta carotene is the better product, if this is the case why would anyone need to supplement with vitamin a when beta carotene gives you so many more benefits?
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Vitamin A / Beta Carotene
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Vitamin A / Beta Carotene
by Gothic_Muscle on Sun Nov 29, 2009 7:26 pm
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Re: Vitamin A / Beta Carotene
by kp1512 on Sun Nov 29, 2009 7:37 pm
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Re: Vitamin A / Beta Carotene
by cleaver on Sun Nov 29, 2009 7:37 pm
The way I look at it is that my diet contains significant amounts of beta carotene. So I see no reason to supplement this.
Retinol is less prevalent in my diet. Therefore I supplement it which allows my consumed beta carotene to provide the other benefits rather than being converted to cover the absence. The conversion effectiveness is in the region of 12 beta carotene to 1 retinol which is poor.
Retinol is less prevalent in my diet. Therefore I supplement it which allows my consumed beta carotene to provide the other benefits rather than being converted to cover the absence. The conversion effectiveness is in the region of 12 beta carotene to 1 retinol which is poor.
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