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I have not only recommended this product to my friends, but I also order additional bottles for them. One friend has reported losing a significant amount of weight after starting this product, along with fish oil capsules and CoQ10. Amazing! I think he lost weight because the vitamin B (plus CoQ10) gave him more energy, and the fish oil might have made his heart more efficient, so without noticing the fact, he moved more and his metabolism became normalized. As for my own experience, I`m pleased with this product because it contains an impressive list of co-factors and co-enzymes, and because it includes the methylated form of B12 (methylcobalamine). Methylcobalamine is much better absorbed than cobalamine, it`s unmethylated form. The amounts of each B vitamin are well above RDA standards, but I think this is reasonable. For one thing, a lot of the B vitamins are lost in digestion. To reduce this, the manufacturer recommends taking this product on an empty stomach, for maximum absorption. For another thing, the RDA standards are the minimum amount of a substance before symptoms and conditions of undernourishment set in. I think it is healthier to take in more than is needed to avoid illness. Avoiding illness (the RDA standards) and promoting health and well-being (much higher than RDA levels) are different; I favor the latter. Studies from which the RDAs were developed are usually relatively short-term, and so cannot address the possibility of long-term undernourishment at higher levels than RDA standards. Instead, I think it is best to try to create a nutritional overhead - have extra nutrition to aid in cell replacement, DNA protection and long-term growth, even though the vitamins, being water-soluble, do not themselves stay in the body a long time. Noticable immediate benefits: If you avoid caffeine and miss your morning cuppa Jo, this product will be of interest to you!

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I like it that one dose is two capsules so you can split it up and take it at different times in the day since the b vitamins are water soluble.

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Best B-Complex I've ever used and at a price half of what I was paying at Whole Foods

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Just started using this product after researching the best Vitamin B-Complex to take - coenzyme. Since it doesn't require the usual conversion, it's better absorbed and you don't need high potency. Love that Country Life is concerned with quality and uses methyl B-12 instead of cyanocobalamin. Love that you take on empty stomach and it does not upset nor repeat on me. I've used other Country Life products and love this one. The 240 count is a great value. If you find you need to take more of this than recommended dosage to see results, it probably means you are deficient in the B vitamins.

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I train and coach endurance athletes and I have seen all of their performances improve using this product. It works especially well for very long endurance competitions like Ironman triathlons and 50-100 mile trail running races. The product takes about 1 hour to get into the body and start being effective. This product is the best B vitamin complex I have found and is assimilated very well into the body where many are not. It then naturally boosts the metabolic and energy processes in the body. It will also do these wonderful things for non competitive people. As I have seen improvements in energy in all people that use the product. If you think the product is not working for you, it probably means you are very difficient in B vitamins and so need to take more and keep taking them for a while to build up. I have many people take this first thing in the morning to wake up and get going without having to drug themselves with 300 mg of caffeine in coffee. You may notice a yellow phosphorescent glow in your urine often as excess is excreted. This is OK and does not mean you are dehydrated.

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