How does the amount of vitamins in Optimal 2 compare to the RDA or RDI?
We use only whole foods as a source of vitamins in our Optimal Vitamin Mineral Antioxidant supplement. Your first reaction may be to compare the Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) or Reference Daily Intake (RDI) to the established standard. However, there is a difference between whole foods and high potency synthetics, and your body knows it. Test animals on a high potency enriched diet do not live as long as those on the same low vitamin diet without enrichment. The apparent benefits derived from laboratory made vitamins are short lived and after time benefits actually reverse. Natural food complex supplements are typically of a low dose. It is sometimes difficult to envision that such small amounts of a natural substance could be so efficacious. Then again, nature does not supply micronutrients (essential nutrients required in small amounts) in large amounts in any natural food. It is folly and impossible to attempt to equate the doses for a synthetic supplement to the dose of a natur
