I like OT because it is hard to beat the price for the quality, digestive support, and other additives it has. Plus, CL is a great company and has the label program.
What I am about to post below is from a user on another board. I cannot link the thread, but do not want to take credit for it either.
Deficiencies vs. Imbalances
It has been well-established that the diet of mainstream society is rampantly deficient in essential nutrients. The need to redress these deficiencies has necessitated the existence of multivitamin formulations, and these formulations react to perceived deficiencies. If a study suggests we are not getting enough vitamin A, supplement manufacturers will often add an arbitrarily large amount of vitamin A to their multivitamin formulations. If another study emphasizes the importance of zinc, large amounts of zinc might be added in similar fashion. While this might make some short-term sense, it does not take into account that all nutrients work together and in synergy. For example, zinc depends on copper for optimum utilization, preferably in a 10 to 1 ratio. Therefore, any supplement manufacturer who adds more zinc to their multivitamin formulation will have to increase copper content proportionately. Failure to do so will result in an imbalance of this important ratio, leading to the suppression of copper-based antioxidant enzymes. Another example of these arbitrarily conceived amounts are the B-complex vitamins. One might be struck by the fact that multivitamins always seem to list their B-complex in precisely the same amounts. It is always the same 50 or 100 milligrams for each and every B vitamin (except for folic acid). What are the chances of the body optimally needing precisely the same amounts of half a dozen different B vitamins, each with its own exclusive biological role to play?
Quality vs. Quantity
The imbalance created by adding disproportionate amounts of certain nutrients is compounded by the fact that the composition of those nutrients is too often not of the optimal source. Therefore, excessive amounts of these synthetic and/or inferior nutrients can be at best wasteful, and at worst toxic or even harmful. Some studies have shown that extreme amounts of synthetic beta-carotene, for example, can lead to the body's carcinogen-detoxifying network becoming unbalanced, resulting (astonishingly) in the activation of genes related to the cancer process.
So what is the answer to this random, arbitrary, ad-hoc approach to the formulation of daily multivitamins? The short answer is vigilance, especially from consumers, health professionals and supplement manufacturers.
Here is a great link to tons of multi info also from AOR
http://www.aor.ca/assets/Research/pd...5_article1.pdf
Will keep updating and post about specific vitamins and minerals that are avaliable for sale here
Best forms of Vitamins:
-Vitamin A:Full spectrum mixed carotene sources,retinyl palmitate
-Vitamin C: Ascorbic acid,Rose hips, Magnesium ascorbate
-Vitamin D:Cholecalciferol
-Vitamin E: mixed sources of Tocerpherols and Tocotrienols
-vitamin K: Menatetrenone
-B1: Benfotiamine
-B2: Riboflavin 5' Phosphate
-Vitamin B3(niacin): inositol Hexanicotinate
-B5: Pantethine
-Vitamin B6
yrodoxil-5-phosphate
-Vitamin B12: methylcobalin
-Folic Acid: 5-Methyltetrahydrofolate