Harness the Power of Organic Whole Foods and Vital Nutrients for Radiant Health and Energy

Even with the best intentions, eating a balanced diet rich in essential nutrients has become harder than ever.

Several factors play a role, from the effects of modern farming practices on the nutritional quality of our food supply to the overabundance of processed convenience foods.

Studies document a decline in essential nutrients – or nutrient density – within fruits and vegetables. Crops grown today may contain lower levels of vital minerals like calcium, iron, and potassium compared to those cultivated in the mid-20th century.

Add to that busy schedules and the everyday stressors that increase your body’s demand for nutrients – and it becomes clear how easy it is to fall short nutritionally.

Your body relies on a steady intake of key nutrients to function at its best. Everything from energy levels and immune resilience to cognitive function and metabolic health is influenced by the quality and quantity of nutrients you consume daily.

Yet, despite widespread awareness of healthy eating, research shows that many people are not meeting even the basic recommended intakes for several essential vitamins and minerals.

So the question becomes: In a world where food isn't always enough, how can you consistently support your body with the nourishment it truly needs?

What’s Happened to the Nutrients in Our Food?

Up until the mid-20th Century, the fertilizers and pesticides farmers used were natural substances that supported ecological balance and the health of the soil.

But this changed drastically when synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides came onto the scene. When chemical companies started marketing petroleum-based agriculture applications, large-scale industrial farming took off…

The widespread changes made to farming in the 1940s and 1950s were supposed to make production easier and more cost-efficient for farmers. But these three major changes had a huge unintended consequence – a perilous nosedive in food nutrient values.

During this period, the average U.S. farm size grew astronomically. In 1940, the average farm was around 200 acres. Today, most farms are over 1100 acres, and many are up to ten times that size.

And then years later came genetically modified (GMO) seeds and weed killer glyphosate... Any minerals still left in the soil became hyper-chelated and unavailable to plants except for the patented GMO plants.

So today we have soils that are so depleted you could eat the same meal as your great-grandmother did years ago, but end up getting less than half the nutrients.

In one study that compared vegetables grown in the U.K., researchers found that over a 50-year period, copper levels dropped by 76% and calcium fell by 46%.

If you’re regularly eating organic food grown using regenerative, or Biodynamic®, farming methods, and including a large variety of fresh, raw produce and pastured meats and eggs, congratulations. You may not need a multivitamin supplement.

However, if you’re not one of those lucky few, you may want to consider adding a multivitamin and mineral supplement to your routine, as well as your family’s…

How to Choose a Multivitamin With Quality and Potency You Can Verify

According to Johns Hopkins Medicine, half of all American adults – including 70% of those age 65 and older – take a multivitamin or another vitamin or mineral supplement on a regular basis.

Unfortunately, not all multivitamins are created equal.

When shopping for a multivitamin, here’s the criteria we recommend to find a high-quality multivitamin and mineral supplement to best meet your specific needs. Make sure the multivitamin:

• Is produced by a reputable company with the highest quality control manufacturing practices in place.

• Goes beyond RDA (Recommended Daily Allowance) and DV (Daily Value) guidelines for certain vitamins and minerals – these are just minimums.

• Includes the added bonus of essential minerals that are absorbable – Many high-potency multivitamins lack important minerals, and chelated forms are among the best for optimal absorption.

• Contains a dosage high enough to provide adequate amounts – In other words, just one or two tablets a day are not likely to provide maximum benefits if they contain minerals.

• If you’re a woman, it includes special dosages and nutrients focused on women’s specific health needs.

Pay close attention, especially if you’re looking at grocery store or big box brands. Be sure you’re buying from a reputable manufacturer who utilizes high-quality sources, materials and production methods.

When we first started our research for Whole-Food Complex with added Multivitamin plus Vital Minerals, we were absolutely shocked at the low-quality standards of so many supplement companies. That's why we researched for months to identify the supplement producers who we believe are the very best in the U.S. today.

The labs we’ve chosen have very strong formulation experience and strong manufacturing capabilities that consistently follow the dietary supplement GMPs (Good Manufacturing Practices).

Introducing Our Complete Line of Multivitamin Plus Minerals for You and Your Family

With the state of today’s food supply, taking a supplement is no longer considered a luxury or “nice to have” – it’s become an important strategy for making sure your body gets what it needs.

We’re pleased to introduce you to our complete line of Multivitamin supplements for the well-being of your entire family:

• Whole-Food Complex with added Multivitamin plus Vital Minerals

• Whole-Food Complex with added Multivitamin plus Vital Minerals for Women

• Whole-Food Complex with added Multivitamin plus Vital Minerals Daily Packs

• Whole-Food Complex with added Multivitamin plus Vital Minerals Daily Packs for Women

• Chewable Multivitamin for Kids

In each of these supplements, we combine high-quality, bioavailable, high-potency nutrients to deliver an outstanding formula that truly nourishes.*

And each formula includes minerals, which not all vitamin supplements contain…

Minerals are crucial for good health. Your body uses them for energy production, immune health and important functions, such as nervous system operation and healing damaged tissues.

Essential components of many proteins, minerals help regulate your hormones and maintain healthy fluid balance and pH levels throughout your body.

However, as important as minerals may be, they can be challenging for your body to absorb and utilize.

Minerals in the superior chelated form help solve that problem. Chelated minerals are minerals that have been combined with amino acids or other molecules to make them easier for your body to absorb.

We’re proud to share that our formulas contain chelated minerals. Let’s take a closer look at each one…

Our Flagship Multivitamin – Whole-Food Complex with added Multivitamin plus Vital Minerals

Our Whole-Food Complex with added Multivitamin plus Vital Mineral offers more than 50 nutritional ingredients and essential minerals, along with Dr. Mercola’s Organic Whole-Food Complex, a special fruit and vegetable blend that includes herbs and green foods.

Here are some of the foods in our product, and examples of how their nutrients work together to promote health:*

High-Potency Antioxidants Provide Extra Free Radical-Fighting Power

Vitamins and minerals are remarkable players in your body’s health. Not only do they perform multiple essential roles, but they also perform “bonus” roles.

One of those is the role of antioxidants.

Antioxidants are substances that neutralize potentially harmful free radicals in your cells. Free radicals are unstable molecules that travel throughout your body, searching for electrons to steal from stable molecules.

They can radically alter how genes express themselves, damaging cell membranes and causing oxidative stress and inflammation. Antioxidants protect your cells by gobbling up free radicals and getting rid of them.

A truly outstanding multivitamin supplement contains vitamins and minerals with a broad range of antioxidant power.

Whole-Food Complex with added Multivitamin plus Vital Minerals provides you with that broad free radical-fighting power by delivering high-potency amounts of an exclusive antioxidant formula that includes:*

• Vitamin A as Beta Carotene to support healthy vision and immune function.*

• Vitamin C to promote tissue growth and repair, and healthy gums.* Our formula contains multiple forms of the vitamin C minerals in order to maximize absorption.

• Vitamin D3 to support heart, bone, vascular and immune health.* Our formula supplies the preferred vitamin D3 form, which has been shown to be more effective at raising blood vitamin D levels than vitamin D2.

• Vitamin E to support your muscular system.* We include the naturally occurring form of alpha tocopherol along with other naturally occurring tocopherols.

• Selenium for immune function support.* The selenium in our formula is from an amino acid complex.

• L-Cysteine and N-Acetyl L-Cysteine (NAC) to help support your immune and respiratory systems.* Our formula uses the bioidentical form of L-cysteine.

• Lutein to promote healthy vision.* We use a lutein extract from marigold instead of the synthetic form.

• Lycopene for your immune health.* Our lycopene extract comes from tomatoes rather than synthetic production.

Researchers have found that at least several of these nutrients have declined over the years in our food supply, including vitamins A and C, and selenium.

Plus, We Add Hard-to-Find Minerals

Key minerals are often missing from other brands – or are supplied in dosages not sufficient to give you the benefits you expect.

Because minerals like calcium and magnesium add significant bulk to a formula, some manufacturers omit them to keep dosages low – one or two tablets a day.

When formulas contain the adequate amount of key minerals, you must expect to take as many as eight tablets a day!

We include chelated forms of magnesium, zinc, manganese, copper, chromium, and molybdenum in our flagship multivitamin products to make sure you are covered.

Here are some of the key minerals that we include in our Whole-Food Complex with added Multivitamin plus Vital Minerals:

• Calcium – Your skeletal system depends heavily on calcium, so we included plenty of this vital mineral.* Our formulas provide calcium in citrate, malate and ascorbate forms that are more absorbable than mined forms of calcium, such as calcium oxide or carbonate – forms that are commonly found in supplements.

• Magnesium – Studies have reported that magnesium is helpful in supporting your lungs and pulmonary system, as well as your entire body. As you age, you’re more likely to be deficient in this important mineral. Magnesium works with calcium and vitamin D to promote bone density health.* It also helps maintain your muscular and nervous systems, a healthy heart and energy.* We’ve used magnesium chelate for its absorption potential, rather than the more common and more poorly absorbed magnesium oxide.

• Potassium – This important mineral plays a key role in your metabolism and your body’s delicate balance of water and electrolytes. The regulation of your heartbeat, muscle function, healthy blood pressure and nerve impulses all depend upon sufficient levels of potassium.*

  Potassium is another important component of your bone density health. As you age, bone density and strength become important elements in your overall health. Our formula uses a potassium amino acid complex – a more absorbable form than the potassium chloride commonly used in supplements.

With the crucial role minerals play in your health, you want to make sure you always give your body what it needs.

In addition to these important minerals and antioxidant-rich vitamins, we also include a complete suite of B Vitamins to support brain and nervous system health, energy production, and healthy cell growth.*

Why You Should Avoid Folic Acid

Folate is an important member of the B-vitamin family that plays many important roles in your body. It…

• Helps maintain normal blood homocysteine levels.*

• Helps nourish the brain and supports mood.*

• Supports protein metabolism.*

• Supports energy production.*

• Promotes normal formation and functioning of red and white blood cells.*

Unfortunately, most people get the wrong form of folate. Folic acid is the form found in many nutritional supplements, including multivitamins. And it’s added to many processed foods.

Folic acid is not the same thing as folate, and too much folic acid in supplements, plus all the foods it is added to, can actually put your health at risk.

Here’s the problem with folic acid… To work in your body, it must first be activated into the biologically active form – L-5-MTHF. However, nearly half of the population has difficulty converting folic acid to this bioactive form because of a genetic reduction in enzyme activity.

Your body prefers the L-5-MTHF form of folate and it is the only form that can cross your blood-brain barrier to carry out important brain functions.*

Folate plays an important role in cardiovascular health, so if you have a reduced ability to metabolize folic acid – or don’t get enough folate, you may have less-than-optimal cardiovascular health. Using the 5-MTHF form of folate may help.*

You'll find this more bioavailable, bioactive folate in Whole-Food Complex with added Multivitamin plus Vital Minerals, Whole-Food Complex with added Multivitamin for Women and Chewable Multivitamin for Kids.

Whole-Food Complex with added Multivitamin for Women – Specifically Tailored for Women’s Health

Whole-Food Complex with added Multivitamin plus Vital Minerals is packed with high-quality vitamins and minerals that benefit both men and women. But, of course, women of all ages have additional nutritional needs.

Because of this, we’ve added a unique antioxidant blend of select botanicals for women’s health, including:

Plus, because of women’s specialized needs, Whole-Food Complex with added Multivitamin plus Vital Minerals for Women provides more of these two important nutrients:

• More folate in the preferred active form of 5-MTHF for healthy cell growth and reproductive health.*

• More choline for healthy liver function, along with support for women of childbearing age for the fetal development of the brain and nervous system.

Just like our Whole-Food Complex with added Multivitamin plus Vital Minerals, our Whole-Food Complex with added Multivitamin plus Vital Minerals for Women offers more than 50 nutritional ingredients and essential minerals, along with Dr. Mercola’s Organic Whole-Food Complex, a special fruit and vegetable blend that includes herbs and green foods.

Getting the Nutrient Balance Right to Achieve Synergistic Benefits

Certain amounts and types of nutrients need to be carefully measured to avoid potential toxic build-up in your body. And we’re the first to acknowledge that coming up with special high-potency multivitamin formulas can be challenging.

The bottom line is… not all nutrients in certain amounts work well together. In fact, a type of competition can occur between some nutrients.

Each ingredient in our Whole-Food Complex with added Multivitamin plus Vital Minerals formulas has been carefully evaluated and selected for its:

• Proper nutrient balance – Just like too little of a nutrient does not provide you with any real benefits, too much can potentially do you more harm than good.
• Bioavailability – Your body can only use what it absorbs, so this feature is highly important for maximizing benefits and avoiding waste.
• Competitive relationship with other nutrients – A complex evaluation is performed by the scientists to make sure the amounts and types of nutrients work well together to benefit you.
• Allergenic potential – Careful selection and measurement of the nutrients took place to investigate potential allergy issues.
• Long-term safety – Some nutrients can accumulate and create toxic buildup in your body. We made sure to prevent this with the proper amounts, types and balance of nutrients.
• Proper use of the bioactive forms of vitamins and minerals – All nutrients are naturally occurring whenever possible.
• Non-GMO – None of the vitamins, minerals and nutrients included in our formulas are genetically modified (GMO).
• Truly adequate dosage – Don’t be fooled by multivitamin products that claim to require only one or two tablets per day. You will not be getting enough of the important vitamins and minerals your body needs.

Discover the Convenience of Whole-Food Multivitamin Daily Packs for Men and Women

Our Whole-Food Multivitamin Daily Packs make it super convenient to get the vitamins and minerals you need every day.

Convenient for travel and daily use, Daily Packs provide individually wrapped packets side by side in a box for daily morning and evening dosing.

Each packet contains four (4) tablets, and is designed to be taken twice a day – we suggest one (1) packet with breakfast and one (1) packet with dinner.

The daily packs contain the exact same formulas as the tablets in the bottles – our Whole-Food Complex with added Multivitamin plus Vital Minerals and Whole-Food Complex with added Multivitamin plus Vital Minerals for Women.

And because they’re packaged in daily doses, they stay fresh. Eco-friendly packaging made from biodegradable, compostable cellulose provides an excellent moisture barrier, protecting your supplements from moisture.

It’s never been easier to get the nutrients you need. Simply grab a pack as you head out the door for your busy day.

Going on vacation? Tuck the total number of packs you’ll need while you’re gone in your bag. There’s no counting pills with our pre-measured Daily Packs. Just pure hassle-free convenience.

Boost Your Child’s Nutrition with a Tasty Chewable Multivitamin Targeted for Children’s Unique Needs

Soil depletion and the nutrient deficits it causes affect everyone, but especially children.

Children have a high need for nutrition, as their bodies and minds are constantly growing. A child’s body generates new cells and makes countless important neural connections every day.

If the nutritional foundation laid in childhood is flimsy, it can have consequences that last a lifetime.

The best thing you can do for your child’s nutrition is to feed him a balanced diet full of fresh, whole foods. But just like adults, children face the problem of a nutrient-depleted food supply.

And as every parent knows, kids tend to be choosier about what they eat.

That’s why we spent over two years tweaking the taste and formula of our Chewable Multivitamin for Kids to offer a supplement that not only tastes good, but also provides the strong nutritional foundation children need while meeting our rigorous selection criteria.

Providing a complete nutritional balance of vitamins and minerals to help you manage your child’s unique needs, our Chewable Multivitamin for Kids…

• Provides more than two dozen important nutrients, including the basics for optimal health – Vitamin D3, Vitamin C, and Vitamin A (as Beta Carotene) to support healthy vision and immune function.*

• Contains a special patented form of 5-MTHF (folate) that is naturally preferred by your child’s body and better utilized.

• Includes B-family vitamins to support brain and nervous system health, energy production, and healthy cell growth.*

• Provides Calcium, Magnesium, Zinc, and Selenium, along with other vital minerals in a patented, chelated form to help maximize your child's absorption.*

• Avoids artificial colors, preservatives, flavorings, synthetic toxins and allergens potentially risky to your kids.

• Helps avoid the risk of iron excess by leaving iron out of the formula.

• Benefits from the manufacturer's extensive commitment to high-quality measures and certifications.

An exclusive formula only available at Mercola Market, our Chewable Multivitamin for Kids has an absolutely delicious fruit flavor your kids will love – and with zero grams of sugar per serving.

Help your child build a strong, healthy body and mind to serve him well throughout his life. Get started now with our Chewable Multivitamin for Kids.

Fill in Those Nutritional Gaps With a Multivitamin Done Right

Ideally, you should be able to get all the nutrition you need from your diet. Hopefully, as regenerative organic farming methods spread, everyone will be able to do just that.

But until then – and especially if you buy any non-organic produce – you have to be extra vigilant about supplying your body with the nutrients it needs for optimal health.

A whole-food multivitamin supplement like Whole-Food Complex with added Multivitamin plus Vital Minerals is an excellent strategy.

When shopping for a multivitamin with minerals, don't be fooled by price or the amounts of nutrients added to the formula. A super low cost may be a red flag for poor quality and questionable nutrient sources.

Daily Value (DV) claims by the manufacturer can also be misleading. For some vitamins and minerals, the daily values may be far too low for optimal health, making them little more than a waste of your time and money.

Think of Whole-Food Complex with added Multivitamin plus Vital Minerals, Whole-Food Complex with added Multivitamin plus Vital Minerals for Women and Chewable Multivitamin for Kids as part of your family’s healthy food budget, rather than as supplements.

Why? We worked closely with the lab to design formulas to complement your family’s diets and round them out with nutrition that can be harder to get from conventionally farmed food.

And remember… Just because you’re taking time off for a vacation, your body still needs its nutrients – if not more to meet the stress and demands of travel. Our convenient Daily Packs with the same high-potency formulas make it easy to pack your multivitamin along.

Make our unique multivitamin formulas part of your family’s daily routines to promote optimal health for every member of your family. Order your supply today.*