Benefits
Optimize your health with Dr. Fuhrman's Gentle Care, meticulously crafted to provide the essential nutrients you need for optimal health, longevity, and vitality, plus a boost of superfoods. Each capsule is packed with critical vitamins and minerals that are hard to obtain from diet alone, ensuring you get the nutrients your body needs every day. Dr. Fuhrman's supplements are carefully researched, ensuring they are free from potentially harmful ingredients like vitamin A, beta-carotene, copper, or folic acid. Our multivitamins contain only safe, tested, and scientifically validated ingredients, to provide you with superior health support.
Bottle contains 120 capsules (60-day supply)
- Essential vitamins and minerals to support your healthy or plant-based diet
- Support brain and nervous system function with vitamin B12
- Build healthy bones and support immune function with vegan vitamin D3
- Optimize calcium intake with mineral-rich seaweed, to replicate the absorption from calcium-containing foods
- Support thyroid function with iodine derived from kelp
- Support immune function and healthy aging with zinc
- Appropriate for men or women
- An option during pregnancy for those who don't need supplemental iron. Provides choline to complement dietary sources' support for fetal brain development.
- Additional phytochemicals and antioxidant benefits from our organic fruit and vegetable blend, including cruciferous vegetables like broccoli sprouts and kale, goji berry extract, carrot, beet, blueberry and raspberry
- Meticulously researched, ensuring that Gentle Care is free from potentially harmful ingredients like vitamin A, beta-carotene, copper, or folic acid.
- Vegan; does not contain gluten, dairy, soy, or GMOs
Key Ingredients
Vitamin D3
Benefits: Once thought to be important only for calcium absorption and bone health, scientists have now found that vitamin D has important actions throughout the body. Low vitamin D levels are associated with diminished immune function, several cancers, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and autoimmune diseases.
Why we should supplement: Many people have insufficient vitamin D levels. Since many of us live in cool climates and work indoors, and because of the potential risks of skin damage and skin cancer from too much sun exposure, supplementing is the best choice for achieving adequate vitamin D levels. Gentle Care contains 25 mcg (1000 IU) of vegan vitamin D3. D3 is more effective than D2 for raising 25(OH)D levels. 50 mcg is an appropriate dose to bring many people into the favorable blood 25(OH)D range of 30-45 ng/ml, but some people may require a lower dose.
About our D3: The vegan D3 in Gentle Care is derived from lichen sourced from the UK.
Vitamin B12
Benefits: Vitamin B12 is required for red blood cell production, nervous system function, and DNA synthesis. Deficiency in B12 can cause a variety of health problems, including anemia, depression, confusion, fatigue, digestive issues, and nerve damage.
Why we should supplement: B12 deficiency is common, especially in vegans who don't supplement, and in older adults, since absorption efficiency declines with age.
About our B12: We use methylcobalamin, one of the natural forms of B12 used in the body. Since research suggests we absorb only a small proportion of the B12 ingested, Dr. Fuhrman recommends taking 75 mcg daily to ensure we absorb the DV of 2.4 mcg.
Calcium
Benefits: Gentle Care contains a conservative dose (100 mg) of calcium from mineral-rich seaweed, to replicate the absorption from calcium-containing foods. Adequate dietary calcium is necessary to have strong, healthy bones.
Why we should supplement: Although adequate calcium can be obtained from a Nutritarian diet, supplementing may be appropriate for some people, such as those who have a smaller appetite for green vegetables, or women after menopause.
About our calcium: Our calcium, and some magnesium, is supplied in the form of whole powdered seaweed, harvested off the coasts of Ireland and Iceland.
Iodine
Benefits: Iodine is required for the body to produce thyroid hormones.
Why we should supplement: Most plant foods are low in iodine, and iodized salt is the main dietary source. If you follow a vegan or near-vegan diet, especially if you avoid adding salt to your food, your iodine intake is probably low.
About our iodine: Our iodine is derived from Atlantic kelp sourced from Canada.
Zinc
Benefits: Zinc is essential for immune function, growth, and reproduction, and supports hundreds of chemical reactions. Zinc adequacy is especially important to maintain our immune defenses and for resistance to infection as we age.
Why we should supplement: Zinc is abundant in whole plant foods but is not readily absorbed. Beans, whole grains, nuts, and seeds contain zinc, but also contain substances that inhibit zinc absorption. Zinc intake and circulating zinc levels are lower in vegetarians and vegans, and zinc requirements for those on a completely plant-based diet are estimated to be about 50 percent higher than the standard recommendations.
About our zinc: Gentle Care supplies 7.5 mg zinc per serving as zinc bisglycinate and zinc picolinate, two bioavailable forms.
