BariatricEating.com Health & Nutrition

Vitamin Schedule... serious about taking taking Vitamins!

We have created two easy-to-follow core vitamin schedules using the popular and highly recommended Bariatric Advantage supplement lines to help you to create strong patterns of which products to take and when to take them! – Susan Maria

The few dollars you may save buying supermarket vitamins is not worth feeling tired & slow, losing hair without re-growth, or digging yourself out of anemia in two years.

Children’s chewable vitamins are good for a 40 pound child, not a 265 pound bariatric patient. Prenatal vitamins are specialized for the condition of pregnancy – we aren’t pregnant, we had bariatric surgery.

A recent study showed that by the end of the first year 59% of bariatric patients’ required additional supplements; after two years the number increased to 98%. The study concluded that basic multivitamins are not effective at preventing deficiency in gastric bypass.

Any time you alter the body it changes the way it functions; low iron, low B-12, and osteoporosis are showing up in the most careful bariatric post-ops. Bariatric patients should take vitamins formulated for bariatric patients.