Spirulina supplements?

Question

I take Earthrise Natural Spirulina supplements. I was wondering if I should take a multivitamin with it.

Answer 1

Spirulina is a GREAT whole food (usually called a "super food") that has a lot of naturally occurring vitamins, minerals, amino acids, proteins, Chlorophyll, etc, etc, and it's very healthy and good to take on a daily basis... but it does NOT replace a multivitamin. There's just not enough quantity in it to get your daily minimum basics. Even if you took enough to get 100% of the RDA of every one of the basics, you would actually overdose on a few of other other basics.

The normal daily dose for Spirulina in supplemental form is about 3 grams (often 15 X 200 mg tabs or 6 X 500 mg pills), and you don't even get 100% of any of the B vitamins from that (which are the smallest doses to get the RDA of). I also pulled up the nutritional facts on Spirulina, and for a 112 gram dose, you get 177% of Iron, 13% of Vitamin A, 19% of Vitamin C... the list goes on.

On the flip side of that, you can certainly take Spirulina for daily health and energy while still taking a multivitamin to cover your basics if your diet isn't healthy enough. Ideally, it would be best to get all of your nutrition from your daily diet, but hardly anyone in America has a good enough diet to get all of the nutrients they need for daily nutrition so a good multi is a good idea. Good luck!

Answer 2

Although the green superfood spirulina contains lots of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, enzymes, amino acids, chlorophyll and other nutrients you should take a multivitamin every day as well.  Each one alone is beneficial but both together is much better.  Each one contains nutrients that are either not present at all in the other one or each one contains more of some nutrients than the other one.  You need both together.

Answer 3

No don't take any multivitamin with it Spirulina is very effective and is the best supplement you can have. I'm taking Spirulina which was prescribed by my sister who is a Nutrition Consultant and she told me to stop with multivitamin and just make sure that your diet is perfect.

Answer 4

I'd agree that using both would be fine.  There are links below about Spirulina.

Answer 5

If you are eating a good varied diet, proper food and no junk, then you probably don't need extra vitamins.  I take spirulina on a semi-regular basis, but I am very particular about meals with only good food, organic where possible, and lots and lots of veg and fruit, and my health is great.  

I'm a grandmother and look quite a lot younger than my age, which I am happy about too.

Answer 6

I highly DON'T recommend Spirulina supplements. The effectiveness of such products has not been clinically proven. You would do much better by sticking to multivitamin tablets prescribed by your doctor.