Among obese adults with three or more micronutrient deficiencies, taking one daily bariatric-specific multivitamin led to a 25.2 percentage point higher rate of full correction of all deficiencies...
Mechanism
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One pill taken every day works better than multiple pills because people remember to take it, and all the nutrients arrive together in the gut at the right time to be absorbed and used without fighting each other. This lets the body fix all the deficiencies faster.
Most probable mechanism
Taking one pill every day makes people more likely to take it correctly, so their body gets all the needed vitamins and minerals at once, which lets the gut absorb them better and use them to fix deficiencies faster.
A single daily formulation ensures consistent and simultaneous delivery of all required micronutrients to the gastrointestinal tract, maximizing co-absorption efficiency through shared transport pathways and reducing competitive inhibition between nutrients.
Reduced pill burden increases daily adherence, ensuring uninterrupted nutrient supply to intestinal epithelial cells and hepatic metabolic systems, enabling sustained enzymatic activation and cofactor-dependent biochemical correction of deficiencies.
Optimized dosing ratios in the bariatric-specific formulation prevent nutrient antagonism, allowing iron, zinc, folate, vitamin B12, and vitamin D to be absorbed and utilized without interference, enabling simultaneous restoration of biochemical markers.
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