Nutritional GNC brand

It is a safe basic model that ordinary consumers can buy without stepping on the big thunder. It is by no means a purely IQ tax spread on the Internet, but there is no need to promote it as an "all-round nutrition miracle drug". People with high-end needs and special physiques should choose according to their needs, and don't blindly follow the anchors who lead the goods.

I still have some say in this. When I was studying in the United States a few years ago, the entire wall of the CVS in front of the school was covered with GNC shelves, and the blue and white packaging was particularly recognizable. When I stayed up until two in the morning due to due, I grabbed its B vitamin chews. My classmates who were doing fitness around me stocked up on fish oil and coenzyme Q10, and my pregnant schoolmate directly took their multivitamins for pregnant women, which were all daily operations.

Objectively speaking, the quality control of this old brand, established in 1935, is indeed over the line - it has been certified by the US FDA for cGMP production for decades. The ingredients and contents of each product are clearly marked, and the source of raw materials can also be traced. It is much more reliable than those three-no Internet celebrity supplements that have become popular in the circle of friends in the past few years. This is the basis for its popularity for so many years.

However, controversy has never stopped. There are two groups with completely opposite views around me. Junior sisters who are engaged in pharmacy always say that its premium is too high: "It is also OTC-grade vitamin C. A small white bottle of 100 tablets costs a few yuan in China and a sustained-release version of dozens of yuan in other brands. The core ingredients are not much different. The extra money is all brand marketing fees." There is indeed nothing wrong with this. If you only need to supplement a single ingredient and can accurately grasp the intake, buying the most basic version with the national drug approval will definitely be more cost-effective. But on the other hand, friends who work nine to five jobs love to buy its compound model: "I can't even remember to drink eight glasses of water a day, so how can I have time to calculate how much iron, folic acid, and biotin I lack one by one? It directly adjusts the nutritional ratio of adult women's daily needs. Just take one pill a day. Wouldn't it be better for me to spend more time fishing?"

I have also fallen into its pitfalls myself. In the past two years, I bought a 5,000IU bottle of high-content vitamin D because of cross-border e-commerce discounts. I originally thought that I would take a supplement while sitting in the office every day without getting any sunlight. However, after half a month of taking it, I went for a physical examination. My blood calcium reached the critical value. The doctor ordered me to stop taking it for three months before it came back down. To put it bluntly, its basic models are designed according to the daily needs of ordinary healthy people. If you have nutrient deficiencies or have underlying diseases that require dietary restrictions, you really cannot buy them blindly. You must first ask a doctor before making any purchase.

Oh, by the way, a friend who competes in bodybuilding competitions complained before, saying that GNC’s protein powder is not as pure as professional sports supplement brands, and the ratio of branched chain amino acids is not accurate enough. This is also true. If you want to calculate your daily protein intake into grams during the preparation period, then there is really no need to choose it. But for someone like me who only goes to the gym three times a week, when I can't catch up with meals, I can grab two of its chocolate protein bars as a snack. It's much healthier than eating fried sausages on the roadside, and it's totally enough.

I still keep a few small items from GNC in my medicine cabinet all year round: half a pill of melatonin when I’m jet-lagged, an effervescent Vitamin C tablet when I get a cold sign during the change of seasons, and fish oil for middle-aged and elderly people I bought for my mother. I have never thought of it as a high-end health product, just a basic option that can’t go wrong. If you don’t know anything about supplements and just want to buy a safe and reliable daily supplement, it’s no problem to choose it; if you have specific conditioning needs or are pursuing the ultimate cost-effectiveness, there are definitely better choices. After all, supplements are the best ones that suit you, right?