Here is the general thought behind designing Vimmortal: Most people here already have a good diet that covers most of the necessary nutrients the human body needs. Most low grade commercial multi-vitamins have RDA values much higher than most of us desire, in forms that might be more negative for health than positive, coming from who knows where, and probably not certified for quality and quantity.
So we developed Vimmortal for us - primarily - with a nod toward the general population as well. It was hoped that it would fit our nutritional desires as well as a bit wider market. After all, someone has to produce this product and it benefits Longecity, the Producer, and society in general if Vimmortal becomes a "hot product". Only a handful of people are going to buy a multi-vitamin that costs $100 a bottle (one month supply), even if it has all the most expensive/newest/exotic forms of our required nutrients.
Most of the ingredients of version 1.0 were standard essential vitamins and minerals, but with a bit lower RDA than most multis contain - again because most of our diets are pretty good already. We were also more forward looking on a few items like D3 and Lithium and included somewhat therapeutic doses because the research supported it then, and still does now (as far as I am aware).
I started the nutrient polling with the ingredients from Vimmortal 1.0. I will also add a couple of the nutrients that were a little iffy from the last round of polling, just in case anyone is aware of more current research the tilts the balance toward the positive. If you have any ideas of new ingredients that should be in Vimmortal please suggest them in this forum with your reason, and we can consider adding it to the polling.
One way I like to think of developing Vimmortal is to imagine that there was some major disruption in economic activity around the world, or some major disaster, and all of a sudden all of the organic veggies, fruit, protein, and generally good healthy food became very expensive and/or unavailable for a few months. It would be nice to have a 6 month or so supply of a good multi-vitamin at a reasonable cost in order to get by. It wouldn't have to contain 100% of the RDAs, but at least a little in order to plug any nutritional "holes" that developed in my diet. So I would like to create Vimmortal with at least a small amount of, and most of, the essential vitamins and minerals as well as some other nutrients that have been proven to promote good health. We did a good job of this with Vimmortal 1.0 and I hope we can make some improvements for version 2.0.
Edited by Mind, 08 February 2012 - 10:18 PM.