Vitamin and Mineral Supplement

Choosing a quality vitamin and mineral supplement is more difficult than it may seem at first.

This is the case for several reasons, but the two most important in our opinion is:

1) Many products on the market do not contain what is stated on the label -- and, worse, even often harbor contaminants.

Both private and government agencies have shown this to be true, however hard it might be to beleive. The dietary supplement industry is largely unrelated, and, unfortunately, there are many unscrupulous manufacturers that create shoddy products. Click here for more info on this.

If you think buying a brand name will solve the problem, think again. It turns out that some of the most well known brand names produced some of the worst products when it came to containing what was stated on the product label.

2) The second reason why it's hard to find a high quality vitamin and mineral supplement is because many manufacturers use very cheap ingredients. Simply put, the less they spend on the ingredients, the higher the profit margin for them. Many company's spend most of their money on advertising and marketing the product rather than the quality of the product itself, which is a shame.

After all, the whole point of taking vitamin and mineral supplements is to improve your health, not impair it. Bottomline: don't settle for subpar supplements.

Because we here at Nutritional Supplement Info personally have taken many products over the last 10 years, we are constantly researching the best ones out there.

After extensive research, we personally settled on a product called Total Balance manufactured by Xtend-Life Natural Products.

Here are some reasons why we chose this product (which we have now been taking for over 2 years):

• It is produced at a pharmaceutical GMP compliant facility. The reason a lot of vitamin and mineral supplements don't have what they state on the label is because they are not produced at rigorous GMP compliant facilities. Moreover, GMP compliant facilities are the strictest in the world when it comes to manufacturing, and all ingredients must be independently verified to be pure, contaminant free.

• Xtend-Life uses only the highest quality ingredients in their Total Balance. Consider this quote from Xtend-Life's website:

  "The natural versions, (particularly vitamins) are much more potent than their synthetic counterparts (sometimes more than double). When faced with an option we use the natural version with the highest potency. For example, we source and use natural crystalline 98% pure beta-carotene in our 'Total Balance' product from the top manufacturer of this nutrient in Europe at a cost of $2,400 per kilo, instead of the more common synthetic variety at a cost of only around $60.

  This is an interesting example because natural beta-carotene has been proven in clinical trials to be far superior to its synthetic alternative. In one of these trials, which involved testing beta-carotene on tumors, the natural version was responsible for the tumors disappearing and yet the synthetic version had no impact at all."

• The last reason we chose Xtend-Life's Total Balance as our own personal vitamin and mineral supplement is because it contains almost 70 powerful nutrients in all (it has much more than just vitamin and mineral supplements). We were spending hundreds of dollars per month to get many of the ingredients in Total Balance by buying dozens of individual products, which became too expensive. Total Balance has allowed us to cut down on what we spend for supplements tremendously.

  Click here for information on Total Balance.