John: Like I said above, tablets are pressed and use binders to hold them together so there is the potential that they are not fully absorbed, capsules break down very quickly and the full dose is readily available to be absorbed in your system.
Brad: Completely depends on the the way the vitamin tablet was pressed, and the coating and binders that are used in the manufacture of the pills. We’ve become very good at drug delivery over the last five years. If they are using the right technology, this is no longer an issue.
Rusty (Follow-up): So the bigger more reputable companies will most likely have a product that is absorbed well? Here is a related question about the same tape “Dead Doctor’s Don’t Lie”. This gentleman mentioned that our soil is depleted of minerals, so the vegetables we are eating now have only about 20% of what they did 50-60 years ago. Any truth to that?
John: That is a broad generalization he is making. Without doing the background research on all of this my guess is that there is a grain of truth to this statement but it doesn’t apply to all soils everywhere on earth. Even if this statement was proven to be true across the board for food grown in all corners of the earth we would still need to do research measuring if this has any effect n people at all. Our population as a whole is healthier and living longer than it ever has, so my completely unscientific guess is that it’s not that big of a deal at the moment.
Brad: I wouldn’t go as far as to say the ‘bigger more reputable companies’ have products that always absorb well. It’s only the companies using the right technologies. Being bigger doesn’t always mean your better. As for the soil question. Really, I have no clue, but more importantly it obviously would have to vary by geographic location...so it surely can’t be right everywhere.