{"title":"Supplements","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"vital-daily-multivitamin","title":"Daily Multivitamin","description":"\u003cp\u003eA once-daily multivitamin in forms the body can use — methylfolate rather than folic acid, methylcobalamin rather than cyanocobalamin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMethylfolate and methylcobalamin are the forms the body can use directly rather than ones it has to convert first. A meaningful share of people convert folic acid poorly, which is the reason for the choice and for the higher cost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChelated minerals are bound to amino acids to sit more easily on the stomach, though the instruction is still to take it with food. Third-party heavy-metal testing is worth looking for in any supplement, because a multivitamin concentrates whatever was in the raw material.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe capsule is HPMC rather than gelatin, which makes the whole product vegetarian without changing how it dissolves. Sixty capsules at one a day is two months, so the bottle and the review cycle line up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThird-party testing is the part worth checking on any supplement, because a multivitamin concentrates whatever was present in its raw materials, heavy metals included. Keep the desiccant in the bottle: the methylated B vitamins are the ingredients that suffer first from humidity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BuyScout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48079012757667,"sku":"VITALDAILYM-01","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0772\/8440\/9507\/files\/vital-daily-multivitamin-primary.webp?v=1788396287"},{"product_id":"vital-magnesium-glycinate","title":"Magnesium Glycinate","description":"\u003cp\u003eMagnesium bound to glycine, which is the form least likely to upset a stomach. Most people take it in the evening.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMagnesium oxide is cheap and poorly absorbed, which is why it fills most supermarket tablets and why it upsets stomachs. Bound to glycine instead, magnesium absorbs well and passes without the laxative effect.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo capsules give 200mg of elemental magnesium, which is the figure worth comparing between products: a label quoting the weight of the whole compound is mostly quoting the compound. Evening is the usual timing, since glycine is itself mildly calming.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne hundred and twenty capsules at two a day is two months, matching the multivitamin so a reorder covers both. Nothing here is bulked with magnesium oxide to lift the headline number.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMagnesium is one of the supplements where the form matters more than the dose, and glycinate is the form most people tolerate at a level that does anything. If you have taken magnesium before and found it went straight through you, that was almost certainly oxide.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BuyScout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48079012790435,"sku":"VITALMAGNES-01","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0772\/8440\/9507\/files\/vital-magnesium-glycinate-primary.webp?v=1788396290"},{"product_id":"vital-electrolyte-powder","title":"Electrolyte Powder","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn unsweetened electrolyte powder with a sodium level meant for actual sweat loss, not a token amount. Mixes clear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA gram of sodium per serving is set against what is actually lost in heavy sweat rather than the token amount in a sports drink. If you are not sweating hard, this is more sodium than you need.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNothing sweetens it, so it tastes like what it is: salty water. That is the trade for no sugar and no sweetener, and mixing clear means it leaves no grit in the bottom of a bottle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSachets rather than a tub is a decision about dosing accuracy and about damp: electrolyte powder is hygroscopic, and a scoop out of a tub in a humid kitchen is neither the dose you wanted nor a powder that pours next month.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThirty sachets in a box measuring six and a half inches will sit in a drawer or a pannier. One sachet in 500ml is the intended strength; halving it in a full litre is a reasonable way to drink it through a long day rather than in one hit.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BuyScout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48079013642403,"sku":"VITALELECTR-01","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0772\/8440\/9507\/files\/vital-electrolyte-powder-primary.webp?v=1788396293"}],"url":"https:\/\/demo.buyscout.ai\/collections\/health-wellness-supplements.oembed","provider":"BuyScout","version":"1.0","type":"link"}