Natural Factors Natural Factors - Big Friends Women's Multi Vitamins & Minerals, 60 vcaps
Natural Factors Women's Multi - Big Friends has always supported your children’s nutritional needs, and now we’re helping moms, too. Women’s Multi Vitamins & Minerals supports moms’ healthy choices with a unique blend of vitamins, minerals, and added phytonutrients. It is formulated to address the special needs of busy, tired moms by combining key nutrients needed for the maintenance of good health with antioxidant-rich extracts, rhodiola, digestive enzymes, cranberry concentrate, and more. These convenient vegetarian capsules are easy to take and non-GMO.
Price
Regular Canadian retail price: $26.98 CAD. Price Vault members pay below retail on this product. Member pricing is private and shown after a free opt-in, with no membership fee, no minimum order and no subscription.
In stock. Free shipping across Canada on orders over $89, flat $9.95 under that. 30 days to request a return, with return shipping paid by the customer. Ships from Victoria, BC.
Why people keep reordering it
- Covers the everyday basics
- Fills the gaps a normal diet leaves behind, so your baseline nutrition is handled.
- Active, bioavailable forms
- Built with the forms practitioners actually choose, not the cheapest raw material.
- Made for daily use
- Gentle and consistent enough to take every day, long term.
Best suited to: someone whose stomach turns on iron tablets, someone who would rather split doses with meals, someone who wants b vitamins above token levels.
What the research supports
Three capsules a day cover a full B-complex plus 15 mg of iron as gentle ferrous bisglycinate. The bottle is a 20-day supply.
Studies use 200 to 600 mg of rhodiola a day.
- Energy (evidence: strong, from randomized controlled trial)
- B vitamins act as cofactors your cells need to turn food into usable energy. Repleting them at these amounts helps most in someone who was genuinely running low, and does little for someone who was not.
- Tiredness (evidence: moderate, from randomized controlled trial, meta-analysis)
- Ferrous bisglycinate absorbs gently and skips the stomach upset iron sulphate causes. At 15 mg a day this tops up iron stores rather than rebuilding ones that are already low.
- Fatigue (evidence: mixed, from randomized controlled trial)
- Rhodiola is thought to help the body's stress response system cope with mental and physical strain. Fatigue trials use 200 to 600 mg of a rosavin-standardized extract a day, and results disagree even at those amounts.
- Immunity (evidence: moderate, from randomized controlled trial, meta-analysis)
- Vitamin D receptors sit on immune cells, which use it to regulate their own response. Most Canadians make little through the darker months, and 1000 IU a day keeps levels adequate through winter, more so if you started out low.
Read the literature: Energy on PubMed, Tiredness on PubMed, Fatigue on PubMed, Immunity on PubMed.
Is it right for you
Worth it if
- someone whose stomach turns on iron tablets
- The iron is ferrous bisglycinate and the vitamin C is buffered as calcium ascorbate, the two gentlest forms in common use.
- someone who would rather split doses with meals
- Amounts are set per capsule, so one at each meal spreads the iron and the B vitamins instead of landing them all at breakfast.
- someone who wants B vitamins above token levels
- 50 mg each of B1 and B5, 30 mg of B2 and 35 mg of B6 across a serving are working amounts, not label decoration.
Look elsewhere if
- someone whose bloodwork came back low in iron
- a dedicated iron supplement at a repletion amount, 20 to 65 mg of elemental iron, taken on a practitioner's guidance rather than 15 mg buried in a multi.
- anyone pregnant or trying to conceive
- a prenatal formula, which carries the iron pregnancy calls for and keeps preformed vitamin A inside the pregnancy limit.
- someone relying on a multi for calcium
- a standalone calcium with D3, since 230 mg across a serving is a fifth of a daily calcium target.
What to expect
Bright yellow urine within a day or two from the riboflavin, which is harmless and simply means it was absorbed. Anything else takes 8 to 12 weeks and only shows up if you were short on something to begin with.
How it compares
- Compared with a one a day women's tablet
- Uses ferrous bisglycinate, calcium ascorbate and citrate minerals in place of cheaper oxide and sulphate forms, with real B vitamin amounts and 400 mcg of chromium. The tradeoff: Three capsules a day means a 60 capsule bottle lasts about 20 days, so the monthly cost is well above a 90 day tablet bottle.
Product details
- Medicinal ingredients
- Vitamin C (calcium ascorbate), Pantothenic acid (calcium d- pantothenate), Vitamin B1 (thiamine hydrochloride), Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine hydrochloride) and 43 more
- Ingredient form
- vcaps
- Servings per container
- 60
- Suggested use
- 3 capsules daily with food, a few hours prior to or after taking other medications, or as directed by a health care practitioner. Not to be taken immediately before bedtime. For adult use only.
- Country of manufacture
- Canada
- Independent testing
- ISURA
- Certifications
- Non-GMO, Made in Canada
- Storage
- Store in a cool, dry place
- Brand
- Natural Factors
How to take it
3 capsules daily with food, a few hours prior to or after taking other medications, or as directed by a health care practitioner. Not to be taken immediately before bedtime. For adult use only.
- Store in a cool, dry place away from direct light.
- Keep out of reach of children.
- Consult a practitioner if you are pregnant, nursing or on medication.
Ingredients
Each capsule contains
- Vitamin C (calcium ascorbate)
- 83.3 mg
- Pantothenic acid (calcium d- pantothenate)
- 16.6 mg
- Vitamin B1 (thiamine hydrochloride)
- 16.6 mg
- Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine hydrochloride)
- 11.6 mg
- Vitamin B2 (riboflavin)
- 10 mg
- Niacin (nicotinic acid)
- 6.6 mg
- Niacinamide
- 6.6 mg
- Vitamin A (palmitate)
- 1666.7 IU (500 mcg RAE)
- Beta-carotene
- 1250 IU (750 mcg)
- Folic acid (folate)
- 0.33 mg
- Vitamin B12 (methylcobalamin)
- 83.3 mcg
- Biotin
- 33.3 mcg
- Vitamin E (d -alpha tocopheryl acid succinate)
- 33.3 IU (22.3 mg AT)
- Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
- 333.3 IU (8.3 mcg)
- Vitamin K2 (menaquinone) as MK-7 (natto bean)
- 6.6 mcg
- Minterals:
- Calcium (carbonate/citrate/ascorbate)
- 76.6 mg
- Magnesium (aspartate)
- 33.3 mg
- Iron (ferrous bisglycinate)
- 5 mg
- Zinc (citrate)
- 5 mg
- Potassium (citrate)
- 5 mg
- Manganese (citrate)
- 1.6 mg
- Boron (citrate)
- 1 mg
- Copper (gluconate)
- 500 mcg
- Iodine (potassium iodide)
- 116.6 mcg
- Chromium (polynicotinate)
- 133.3 mcg
- Selenium (selenomethionine)
- 33.3 mcg
- Vanadium (HVP* chelate)
- 8.3 mcg
- Molybdenum (citrate)
- 8.3 mcg
- Additional ingredients:
- Rhodiola extract (Rhodiola rosea) (root)
- 33.3 mg
- Standardized to
- 3.5% rosavins
- Green tea extract Camellia sinensis) (leaf)
- 16.6 mg
- Standardized to
- 75% catechins, 40% EGCG, < 10 % caffeine
- BerryRich® berry blend concentrate (fruit)
- 16.6 mg
- [grape (Vitis vinifera), pomegranate (Punica granatum), strawberry (Fragaria vesca), cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon), blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum), raspberry (Rubus idaeus), bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus)]
- Cranberry concentrate 36:1 (Vaccinium macrocarpon) (fruit)
- 16.6 mg
- Choline (bitartrate)
- 8.3 mg
- Inositol
- 8.3 mg
- Betaine (hydrochloride)
- 5 mg
- Coenzyme Q10 (microorganism)
- 6.6 mg
- Digestive enzymes
- 3.3 mg
- Alpha-amylase (Aspergillus flavus var. oryzae) (whole)
- 1.3 mg (82.5 FCC DU)
- Fungal protease (Aspergillus flavus var. oryzae) (whole)
- 1.3 mg (181.5 FCC HUT)
- Lipase (Aspergillus niger) (whole)
- 0.6 mg (26,400 FCC LU)
- Cellulase (Trichoderma reesei) (whole)
- 0.06 mg (1.32 FCC CU)
- Indole-3-carbinol
- 1.6 mg
- Lutein (Tagetes erecta) (flower)
- 1 mg
- FCC: Food Chemical Codex; DU: Dextrinizing Unit; HUT: Hemoglobin Unit on the Tyrosine Basis; LU: Lipase Unit; CU: Cellulase Unit
HVP: Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein
Non-medicinal ingredients
Vegetarian capsule (carbohydrate gum (cellulose), purified water), vegetable grade magnesium stearate (lubricant), microcrystalline cellulose, silica.
Free from
Contains no artificial colours, preservatives, or sweeteners; no dairy, sugar, wheat, gluten, yeast, egg, fish, shellfish, salt, tree nuts, or genetically modified genes or proteins. Suitable for vegetarians.
Interactions and cautions
- Medications
- May interact with certain prescription medications. Review with your pharmacist if you take daily medication.
- Timing
- Separate from medications by 2 to 4 hours unless directed otherwise by a healthcare practitioner.
- Pregnancy and breastfeeding
- Consult a healthcare practitioner before use if pregnant or breastfeeding.
- General
- Use only as directed. Discontinue and consult a practitioner if you experience an adverse reaction.
This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent disease. Consult a healthcare practitioner before use. Free certified advisors are available at 1-888-386-1211, Mon to Fri, 9am to 5pm PT.
Questions about Natural Factors - Big Friends Women's Multi Vitamins & Minerals
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- Yes. It is identical to what you would pay full price for anywhere else, sourced through our authorized supplier relationships.
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- We buy direct, with nobody in the middle taking a cut, and we sell it for close to what we paid. You see the price privately because you have unlocked the Vault.
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- Orders placed before 12pm PT are processed the same day and ship within two business days. Shipping is free over $89, and a flat $9.95 under that.
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- You have 30 days after it arrives to request a return. Product must be unused, in its original packaging, with proof of purchase, and return shipping is paid by you. Find it cheaper anywhere in Canada and we will match the price.