Nature's Way Alive! Once Daily Men's Multivitamin, Ultra Potency, Food-Based Blends (291mgper serving), 60 Tablets

I lifted this from an external source but think this does a better job than most of the reviews here so thought I would share it. I'm not sure where this fanaticism over synthetic Cyanocobalamin for B12. So buy a separate supplement for them if you feel these won't meet your nutritional needs, no reason to dismiss the rest of the ingredients so easily, which are outstanding. When it comes to outstanding commercially-produced nutritional supplements, the list is rather short. Far too many vitamins and supplements on the shelves of stores are made from chemical ingredients rather than natural sources. Yet we all know that vitamins and minerals should always come from plant sources, not chemical factories. Alive! is one supplement that gets it right. This supplement is so good that it's almost surprising it's so widely available. Its vitamins and minerals come from whole food and superfood sources that are nothing short of miraculous in their ability to prevent and even reverse chronic disease. Of course, the Alive! label can't make such claims, but the scientific literature is full of clinical studies showing that these superfoods are powerful agents in reversing chronic disease like cancer, diabetes, heart disease and many more. (By the way, I only review products that I use myself and strongly recommend. These reviews are never paid. Nature's Way has no idea this review is even being written. This is not an ad or an infomercial, it's a 100% independent review of an outstanding nutritional supplement.) Let's take a closer look at what's inside by starting with the primary ingredient group: the green foods blend. This blend includes both spirulina and chlorella -- both are potent disease-fighting superfoods I've covered in great detail in a free report you can read called Superfoods For Optimum Health: Chlorella and Spirulina. Spirulina, in particular, contains powerful anti-cancer phytochemicals. Chlorella contains CGF (Chlorella Growth Factor) that helps rebuild damaged nerve tissues. Both of these superfoods are rich in chlorophyll, which cleanse the blood and detoxify the liver. Spirulina is also an outstanding source of digestible protein. In fact, ounce per ounce, it has twelve times the digestible protein of beef! The remainder of the green food blend includes barley grass, dandelion (an outstanding herb for supporting healthy liver function and controlling blood sugar), wheat grass (potent anti-cancer phytochemicals), and several other ingredients. In combination, they are extremely powerful disease fighters and promoters of good health. Next, Alive! contains a blend of amino acids, primarily derived from the green foods already mentioned. Following that, each serving contains 100mg of a "Garden Veggies" blend, which is basically powdered garden vegetables like parsley, kale and spinach. This is an important ingredient because few people consume enough vegetables. And vegetables provide powerful phytochemicals that fight disease and support optimum health. Many of the vegetables contained in Alive! are well known to reverse cancer, for example. They're covered in the book, Eat to Beat Cancer by Ralph Moss. Of course, it's always best to get your vegetables in raw form, not as a supplement powder, but in reality, since most people don't eat sufficient quantities of vegetables, this supplement is a welcomed alternative. The next ingredient group is the "Orchard Fruits" blend, which includes powdered cranberries, blueberries, plums, strawberries and other fruits. This is also a very important ingredient group because these fruits provide another powerful assortment of disease-fighting phytochemicals that aren't available anywhere else. As always, you'll do better if you actually eat these fruits in their raw form, but this supplement offers a convenient way to get these healing nutrients into your body regardless of whether you've eaten at a fruit buffet that day. The next group of ingredients in Alive! is the "MycoDefense Mushroom Blend" which contains a mixture of medicinal mushrooms. They can't claim this on the label, but these are the mushrooms shown to boost immune system function and actually reverse cancer in many patients. There's been a tremendous amount of promising research conducted in Japan on these mushrooms, and a product made from them is regularly consumed by cancer patients in Japan. Beyond just cancer patients, anyone wishing to boost their immune system function would benefit from consuming these mushrooms. And there are many other health benefits beyond the scope of this short review. Next on the ingredients list, you'll find 100mg of a digestive enzyme blend. This is a handy group of substances that helps your body assimilate the nutritive elements contained in all the other ingredients mentioned here. Following that, you'll find 100mg of their "Omega Fatty Acid Seed Blend" which contains powders of flax seeds and sunflower seeds. You're probably well aware of the health benefits of omega-3 fatty acids and flax seeds, but in case you're not, the short version is that these are the "good fats" that support cardiovascular health and can even help reverse cardiovascular disease and many other disorders. Of course, there's not much oil in 100mg of dried flax seed powder, so don't consider this supplement to be a sufficient source of those oils. The fact that it contains flax seed powder is beneficial, but you definitely need more healthy oils than what you'll find here. Lastly, Alive! contained a citris bioflavonoid complex, which offers yet another impressive array of immune system boosting phytochemicals. If you put all this together, you have a rather impressive assortment of health-boosting, disease-busting plant-derived superfood ingredients that practically anyone would do well to add to their diet. There's not a person alive who wouldn't benefit from taking Alive! The only problem with Alive! is that people don't take enough. The recommended daily dose is a mere 3 tablets a day. Personally, I take ten tablets, and that's on top of all the superfoods I take on the side. Alive! isn't a drug. It's food. You can't overdose with it. You could eat the entire bottle each day and be better for it. The recommended daily dose of 3 tablets is probably on the label to appease the FDA which doesn't want people to get too healthy from nutritional supplements because, after all, that would hurt the pharmaceutical trade if people actually started reversing their diseases through nutrition. But in reality, you can take as many of these tablets as you want. You can literally eat them like food because they are food. One more thing: Alive! isn't necessarily the best value for your dollar when it comes to buying nutritional supplements. By my calculations, it comes out to around 26 cents per gram, which is roughly double the cost of buying chlorella and spirulina from my top recommended sources. Yet Alive! packs in a convenient array of other ingredients that add to its healing potency, so I think 26 cents a gram is certainly a fair price. You can shop around and find cheaper prices on isolated ingredients, but I don't think you'll find an all-in-one supplement like this one. So who makes Alive? Nature's Way. They've been in the supplement business for years, and this is their best product yet. Highly recommended.

After taking these for a few months, I do feel like I noticed a difference in my health and energy. It seems like a really good multivitamin blend with a lot of natural ingredients.

These are a really good vitamin. You can tell when you pee, that there's a highly effective Vit. C going on. Gives me faith that all the other vitamins are fresh as well.

Best vitamins you can get. Very strong though. You MUST take with food or you will be projectile vomiting. I have learned my lesson on SEVERAL occasions and 2 of those times were in public. Made a mess. LEARN FROM MY MISTAKES LOL

I’ve been taking these Alive! Men's Ultra multivitamins for a while now, and I’m really impressed. I wanted a one-and-done solution that covers all the bases, and the ingredient list here is huge—it has everything from Vitamin D3 and Zinc to their fruit/veggie and mushroom blends. Despite the large list of ingredients, the DV % are all very manageable; you don't see DV %s into the thousands like with some other "daily" vitamins. The standout for me is the B-vitamin complex; I definitely notice a steady energy difference throughout the day compared to when I don't take them. I also appreciate that they use methylated B12, which is easier for the body to absorb. Highly recommend if you want a high-potency multivitamin!

Food blend is my prefer way to get my vitamins.

Great vitamin.

These are a great value. One thing I found lacking on this product page were the actual ingredients and daily values, so here they are, hope this helps... This info is from the manufacturer: Serving Size: 1 Tablet Amount/Serving %DV Vitamin A (50% [3,750 IU] as vitamin A acetate and 50% [3,750 IU] as beta carotene) 7,500IU 150% Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) 175mg 292% Vitamin D (as cholecalciferol) 1,000IU 250% Vitamin E (as d-alpha tocopheryl succinate) 120IU 400% Vitamin K (as phytonadione) 80mcg 100% Thiamin (as thiamin mononitrate) 25mg 1,667% Riboflavin (Vitamin B2) 25mg 1,471% Niacin (as niacinamide) 50mg 250% Vitamin B6 (as pyridoxine HCl) 40mg 2,000% Folic Acid 400mcg 100% Vitamin B12 (as cyanocobalamin) 100mcg 1,667% Biotin 325mcg 108% Pantothenic Acid (as d-calcium pantothenate) 40mg 400% Calcium (from Aquamin® calcified mineral source Red Algae Lithothamnion sp. [whole plant]) 100mg 10% Iodine (as potassium iodide) 150mcg 100% Magnesium (from Aquamin® calcified mineral source Red Algae Lithothamnion sp. [whole plant], as oxide) 50mg 13% Zinc (as zinc oxide) 30mg 200% Selenium (as sodium selenate) 250mcg 357% Copper (as copper sulfate) 4mg 200% Manganese (as manganese sulfate) 5mg 250% Chromium (as chromium picolinate) 250mcg 208% Molybdenum (as sodium molybdate) 75mcg 100% Potassium (as potassium chloride) 5mg <1% Prostate Blend with Lycopene Saw Palmetto (berry); Tomato Extract (fruit) providing 1 mg (1,000 mcg) of lycopene 105mg * Orchard Fruits(tm) Blend Pomegranate (seed); Acai Extract (whole palm fruit); Juice Powders; Grape; Plum; Cranberry; Blueberry; Strawberry; Blackberry; Bilberry; Cherry; Apricot; Papaya; Orange; Pineapple 30mg * Garden Veggies(tm) Juice Powder Blend: Parsley; Kale; Spinach; Wheat Grass; Brussels Sprout; Asparagus; Broccoli; Cauliflower; Beet; Carrot; Cabbage; Garlic 30mg * Energy & Endurance Blend Siberian Eleuthero (root); Rhodiola Rosea Extract (root) standardized to 3% rosavins and 1% salidroside; Korean Ginseng (root); Gotu Kola (stem, leaf) 30mg * Cardiovascular Blend with Resveratrol Hawthorn (berry); Japanese Knotweed standardized to 50% resveratrol; Coenzyme Q10 (ubiquinone) 20mg * Green Food/Spirulina Blend Spirulina (microalgae); Kelp/Bladderwrack (whole thallus); Alfalfa (leaf, stem); Barley Grass (grass); Dandelion (leaf); Wheat Grass (grass); Melissa (leaf); Lemon Grass (grass); Nettle (leaf); Blessed Thistle (stem, leaf, flower); Chlorella (broken-cell microalgae); Plantain (leaf); Blue Green Algae (microalgae); Cilantro (leaf) 20mg * Organic Mushroom Defense Blend Cordyceps; Reishi; Shiitake; Hiratake; Maitake; Yamabushitake; Himematsutake; Kawaratake; Chaga; Zhu Ling; Agarikon; Mesima 20mg * Digestive Enzyme Blend: Concentrated Enzyme formula: (Protease I, Protease II, Peptizyme SP, Amylase, Lactase, Invertase, Lipase, Cellulase, Alpha Galactosidase); Betaine HCl; Bromelain (from pineapple); Papain (from papaya) 20mg * Citrus Bioflavonoid Complex (from lemon, orange, grapefruit, lime, tangerine) providing; Hesperidin, Naringin, Narirutin, Eriocitrin, Flavonols and Flavones 20mg * Choline (as choline bitartrate) 20mg * Inositol 20mg * Oat Beta Glucan Concentrate 10mg * Rutin 5mg * Boron (as amino acid chelate) 1mg * Lutein (from marigold) 500mcg This product does not contain artificial coloring artificial flavoring dairy products preservatives salt sugar wheat yeast