November 11, 2015Nutrition
Is Your Multivitamin Enough?

I was asked this week, “I am taking a multivitamin every day, why do I still feel so sluggish?"
Wanted to drop a quick line and remind you that with all the stress, coffee, sugar, caffeine, and refined carbohydrates going around, your multivitamin may not be enough. The suggested daily dosages of vitamins and minerals must vary from person to person because a few determining factors:
- Age
- Body type
- Genetic predisposition
- Disease conditions and medications
- Absorption and metabolism (leaky gut)
At our office, we like to suggest lab tests that test the intracellular amounts of micronutrients in the cell (spectracell), not just in the blood. I’ve seen patients so deficient that they needed 3-4 times the normal amount of vitamins and minerals because all the stress and detrimental factors we all face in daily life.
If you are taking a multivitamin regularly and still feel tired, fatigued, or just overall drained, you need to look into two things:
- Change the multivitamin/mineral
- Get your cells checked
Be well,
Dr. Motley