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To
ensure you are getting nutrients that your body can
use, only take products that are manufactured with
high quality ingredients and under strict quality control
regulations. Ask your store if the manufacturer does
what is called a DISINTEGRATION TIME TEST on each batch
of tablets. This special test tells us how and when
the product will break down in the body. If the disintegration
time is not right for a particular product you will
not receive maximum benefit.
Disintegration
Time Test
The
DISINTEGRATION TIME TEST consists of a laboratory set-up
that approximates a "normal" stomach to see
how a tablet will behave when it gets in your body.
It exposes the supplement to the temperature, biochemical
environment and motions that actually occur in the stomach,
and the break down of the tablet is monitored over time.
Different formulas have different ideal disintegration
times. Most products should disintegrate (break down
to a powder) in about 30 minutes to 1 hour. Timed or
prolonged release products are specially designed to
take longer to disintegrate in order to improve utilization
of certain nutrients. They may even stay partly "intact"
after releasing their nutrients, a normal situation
for these products.
Check
With Manufacturer
Sometimes
people try to determine their own "disintegration
time" at home by putting their tablets into a glass
of water or vinegar and waiting for them to dissolve.
This test is totally inaccurate for 99.99% of your supplements!
It simply is not similar enough to a real stomach when
determining how a complex nutritional formula will behave
in the body. The vinegar test is only appropriate for
formulas that contain just calcium carbonate. Anything
more complex simply won’t break down if it is not
under the temperature, biochemical and motion conditions
present in the stomach. After all, you can’t dissolve
a piece of food in a glass of vinegar!
Keep
in mind that your body is much more complicated than
a glass of vinegar, so do not rely on this method to
test your supplements. But do ask the person at your
store if the products you are taking go through the
disintegration time test to be sure you are getting
the most from your supplements
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