Healthy very small children who will swallow pills can take these same products at half the recommended dose.  If they won’t swallow pills the pills can be blended into a fruit smoothie or finely crushed and then stirred into apple sauce.  There are also “Children’s Chewable Multi-Vitamins + Iron” (1-5 years old) from Douglas Cooper that contains no minerals except iron, Bronson’s “Chewable Vitamins” (make sure it is the one for small children, Bronson makes several types of chewables) and a liquid vitamin product from Bronson called Multivitamin Drops for Infants.  These will be a little more costly than cutting pills in half.

There is also an extraordinarily high quality multivitamin/mineral formula for children called “Children’s Formula Life Extension Mix” from Prolongevity, Ltd. (the Life Extension Foundation), it is in tablet form, and slightly more expensive.

I hope that my book will be around for several generations.  The businesses whose vitamin products I recommend will not likely exist in twenty years.  Even sooner than that the product names and details of the formulations will almost certainly be altered.  So, for future readers discovering this book in a library or dusty shelve of a used book store, if I, at my current level of understanding, were manufacturing a childrens and young adults vitamin formula myself, this is what it would contain.  Any commercial formulation within 25 percent of these figures plus or minus would probably be fine as long as the vitamins in the pills were of high quality.

Vitamin C 500 mg B-1 30 mg
Vitamin E 50 iu B-2 30 mg
Vitamin A 500 iu B-3 niacinamide 100 mg
Vitamin D 25 iu B-5 50 mg
Magnesium 100 mg B-6 30 mg
Calcium 400 mg B-12 30 mcg
Selenium 10 mcg Chromium 20 mcg
Manganese 2 mcg Biotin 30 mg
Zinc 5 mg Iodine (as kelp) 5 mg
PABA 20 mg Bioflavinoids 100 mg

Vitamins For An Older Healthy Person

Someone who is beyond 35 to 40 years of age should still feel good almost all of the time.  That is how life should be.  But enjoying well-being does not mean that no dietary supplementation is called for.  The onset of middle age is the appropriate time to begin working on continuing to feel well for as long as possible.  Just like a car, if you take very good care of it from the beginning, it is likely to run smoothly for many years into the future.  If on the other hand you drive it hard and fast with a lot of deferred maintenance you will probably have to trade it in on a new one after a very few years.  Most people in their 70s and older who are struggling with many uncomfortable symptoms and low energy lament, ’if I’d only known I was going to live so long I would have taken better care of myself.’  But at that point it is too late for the old donkey; time for a trade in.