Best Multi-Vitamins For Men By Rank

As men (also as wives and girlfriends to their men), what are the best multi-vitamins and multi-nutrients for men available today?

What's the best in the world?

What's the top 10 multi-vitamins and multi-nutrients for men?

In fact, as a man, do I even need a high-quality multi-vitamin to boost and supplement my health?

More below.

It may seem weird, odd or even counter-intuitive that the modern-man today need to supplement their lifestyle and nutrition with a good multi-vitamin and multi-nutrient supplement.

Some of the factors to consider includes:

• modern foods lack nutrients and nourishment - the nutritional value of our core foods such as meats, vegetables, fruits and grains has devalued due to over-farming and bad farming practices
  
  
• water is becoming increasingly polluted, with pollution, contaminants and toxins seeping into our waters due to industrialization (this led to the increase of the bottled water markets)
  
  
• modern-man lifestyle - stressful lifestyle, lack of sleep, sedentary lifestyle, modern diets (think fast foods, sweetened drinks, caffeine etc) - these exarcebates the above two conditions already

These all more and more points to the need for more high quality multi-vitamins and multi-nutrients.

Why is having The Best Multivitamin for Men important

The article, “Malnourished…With Fruit & Veges” (2002) highlights the point that the nutrient and nourishment content in our core foods has devalued and decreased significantly over time, generally due to over-farming, bad farming practices, bad manufacturing practices as well as industrialization as a whole.

An example, the humble potato:

So...what on earth are we eating?

Does that mean "larger" people are eating right and well nourished?

Actually, no. Foods today are calorie-rich but nutrient-poor, so both larger and leaner people can be equally nutrient-deficit.

Even both western-trained medical doctors are agreeing to it:

Note that they that "preventative measures" are bolded to be emphasized, which points in the direction that we can truly supplement, boost and improve our nutrition and nutrients

from nutritional deficit >>> nutritional sufficiency

Studies are showing that it is the lack of sufficient vitamins, minerals, amino acids (nutrients per se) that leads to diseases, illnesses and health breakdown, hence the focus on nutritional sufficiency via health supplementation.

Reading The Chart below

There is a grid table below which will show you at a glance the top 10 multi-vitamins and multi-nutrients specificly designed for men/males, and they're entirely my opinion.

They are scored from 1st to 10th position based on the scoring system (the % effectiveness) as well as other additional factors that are not mentioned in the table to keep the table simple and clean (the additional factors are listed below, and covered more in depth in a separate article - link also found below).

All 10 of these multi-vitamins are manufactured in cGMP-compliant facilities (current Good Manufacturing Practice), and these multi-vitamins were scored using a vitamin methodology and process here.

You can see above, there is only a handful of men's/male multi-vitamins that can is allowed to the list. Well known and popular brands like Centrum, GNC, Avon - all the usual ones didn't score very well and are rightfully excluded from this list.

“cGMP”? what's that? and what does that got to do with the best multi-vitamins for men?

cGMP-registered and compliant means that the supplement is manufactured under the compliance of stringent rules and regulations set by the United States Food & Drug Administration (FDA), and companies that are compliant with them are verified and confirm to produce products that are of rigorous standards from the manufacturing processes, ingredient sourcing etc, leading to extremely high quality and absorption rates.

In June 2010, United States law states that any companies that wants to sell any products in United States MUST be GMP compliant. This led to many companies seeking and obtaining the NSF for Sports GMP compliance (not as rigorous as the full GMP, but better than nothing).

But, at the end of 2011, it seems that a high number of more than 70% of companies selling products in United States are still not GMP-compliant nor compliant to the legal ruling (Matthews, An Insider’s View of The Supplement Manufacturing Process, paragraph 13).

Over time, the number of non-compliant companies has slowly inched upwards to the high 80+%.

Irony being, the law and regulation is there to have and be compliant with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), but unfortunately, it is not enforced (leading to the high quantity of non-GMP/poor manufacturing practice supplements available in the market)

There are six (6) agencies that assist with GMP applications, registration, certifications and audits, and they are:

• NNFA (Nаtіоnаl Nutritional Food Aѕѕосіаtіоn)
• NPA (Natural Products Association)
• USP (United States Pharmacopoeia)
• NSF International (National Sanitation Foundation)
• WHO (World Health Organization)
• TGA (Therapeutic Goods Association)

United States Pharmacopoeia (USP) drug standards are enforceable in the United States by the FDA, and these standards are developed and relied upon in more than 130 countries worldwide (Taken from About USP, paragraph 1)

Till today, very few health supplement companies have USP-verified GMP products, but the few that are listed that are non-USP GMP are: SunMark, Nature Made, Safeway, Kirkland, Equaline, and TruNature.

Does this mean that these brands are better quality? Not confirmed and not necessarily.

There are a few nutritional health companies that are GMP-certified but are not on this list which includes:

• Xtend-Life
• USANA Health Sciences
• Mountain Naturals
• Optimum Nutrition
• and Douglas Laboratories

All these 5 companies are GMP compliant. It's interesting, because even the USP GMP certification can be somewhat confusing/deceiving, although not intentionally so.

Xtend-Life is founded, based and headquarted in Christchurch, New Zealand, and the New Zealand Ministry of Health (MOH) enforces strict cGMP certification for health companies in New Zealand. This is applied to ALL health supplement companies in New Zealand, which must adhere to stringent pharmaceutical-grade quality standards by the US FDA, their Ministry of Health, cGMP as well as the British Pharmacopeia.

Any New Zealand health supplement companies are directly regulated and overseen by the New Zealand Ministry of Health (MOH) as well as have regular compliance audits by the New Zealand Food Safety Authority, which is an arm of the New Zealand Ministry Of Health.

Douglas Labs is based in Pennsylvania, US, and like Xtend-Life, it is also a GMP-compliant supplement manufacturer that is not on the USP list but it is highly recognized and regarded by doctors as well as other healthcare professionals.

Best Multivitamin for Men by Rank: Conclusion

Xtend-Life takes it a few notches higher, and they initiate a Hazard Analysis Critical Point Program (HACCP) as part of their product certification program. This HACCP program is audited and regulated by the New Zealand Food Safety Authority.

Supplements and supplement makers in New Zealand have to comply and meet the same (if not higher) rigorous standards as set by the USP and FDA and GMP requirements.

Read more on Xtend-Life Total Balance Men's Premium here

Read a review on Xtend-Life Total Balance Men's Premium here

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