People have been talking about nutritional supplents for decades now–it didn’t just start with bariatric supplements. Finding the right gastric bypass vitamin is absolutely essential for those of you who have had weight loss surgery.
Why Do WLS Patients Need Vitamin Supplements More than the Average Person?
Most people take vitamin supplements in order to get the vitamins they may or may not be getting in their ordinary diet. How much do they really need to take these additions? It’s hard to say. Many of the more health-conscious people probably eat well enough not to need the additional supplements, while most people who eat poorly probably don’t concern themselves with supplementation for the most part anyway.
As weight loss surgery patients, you unfortunately no longer have that option. The same surgery that has given you your life back (sometimes for the very first time) has also unfortunately hindered your ability to absorb vitamins. Hence the necessity for proper bariatric vitamin supplements; supplements your body can absorb easily and fully.
The Importance of Easy Digestion
Many vitamin supplements contain absorption-hampering filler. Fillers can be used to give shape (think of lozenge-shaped products), chewability (cartoon-shaped children’s vitamins), color, or taste (not just limited to kids’ vitamins!). They also hamper your body’s ability to absorb the vitamins. This can especially be seen in hard, “pellet-like” supplements that your body may have problems digesting, but it can also occur with the softer, more easily chewable kinds of vitamins as well.
Usually, the best kind of multi-vitamin to take is the kind that comes in an easily-dissolvable capsule. It will actually dissolve and be usable by your body–and isn’t that the whole point?
