A:  Always (always!) with a meal to aid absorption and digestion.

A:  Yes, for maximum benefits you should take MultiV every single day of the year. Doing so helps ensure you keep a steady intake of vitamins and minerals that fills micronutrient gaps that are commonly associated with endurance training and that can negatively impact general health and exercise performance.

A:  It may take longer to replenish your status of any missing vitamins or minerals if you take fewer than three MultiV tablets per day. The ingredients in MultiV are dosed and portioned according to effective amounts in clinical research; taking a lower dosage will limit those effects.

Increase in Time to Exhaustion

Increase Anaerobic threshold

Improved exercise capacity

Increase Maximal Oxygen uptake

30% – 50% increase in Oxygen Utilization

Increase ratio of ATP by 45% – 55%

Enhanced Endurance

Increase in ATP production

A:  It doesn’t matter if you have a full serving all at once or if you break it up throughout the day. In fact, taking the tablets individually with separate meals is optimal; however, taking them all at once eliminates those “oops” days where you forget a dose. 

A:  No. The trick is to take MultiV daily, as consistent use helps maximize the throughput of energy pathways that feed muscular performance. Those pathways are not easy to boost from a single, acute intake of vitamin/mineral catalysts. It’s a tightly controlled network of pathways and micronutrient incorporation into your network is done slowly and carefully. This rationale also applies to the additional non-MVM ingredients.

A:  While it doesn’t really matter when you take MultiV, taking MultiV in the morning means that your body is more active, speeding digestion and assimilation.

A:  Yes! In fact, Optygen should work even better if you replenish any missing vitamins and minerals with MultiV. Adaptogens work with pathways in your body which are reliant on adequate status of most vitamins and minerals for normal function.

A:  All First Endurance products are engineered to work together as a complementary system. HALO, Optygen/OptygenHP, and MultiV are designed for daily use to maintain whole-body peak performance. Other products – PreRace, EFS/EFS-PRO, Liquid Shot, and Ultragen – are designed for periodic use before, during, or after exercise. Piqued your interest? Check out our Daily Bundle to learn more and save.

A: Yes.

A:  MultiV is an endurance athlete’s multi, not a bottle of cartoon character gummies. Human clinical studies support those non-traditional ingredients as specifically addressing certain needs of athletes that other multis ignore. Those include improvements to oxygen capacity, exercise performance, cardiovascular performance, fat oxidation, antioxidant capacity, hormonal support, and immune support. Those additional ingredients are also at their best when high-potency MVMs keep metabolic pathways replete.

A:  If you’re deficient in an essential vitamin or mineral like iron? A few days. The more general benefits improve over several weeks. The real test is the regressive depletion you’ll hit when you stop taking MultiV, depending on your body’s unique disposition.

A:  We’re glad you asked! There are several good reasons for folate that are being ignored by most multis. Folic acid itself is inactive, not made by human bodies, and not found in foods. The folate we use (MTHF or 5-MethylTetraHydroFolate) is the most critical form of folate in all living cells, and folic acid needs to be converted to MTHF during digestion for your body to use it. Normally, this process is adequate, but a majority of humans have one or more genetic variations that slow that conversion. These people get less efficacy from folic acid but have normal folate function when using MTHF in foods and supplements. Also, excess folic acid (called unmetabolized folate or UMF) accumulates in humans and interferes with folate functions, resulting in functional folate deficiencies, which can meddle with gene expression control (needed for training adaptations and responses to exercise), causing decreased long-term health. Taking too much folic acid can reduce effective folate levels? That’s 100% DV of irony.

A:  Actually, the amount of biotin per serving is exactly the same as previous MultiV – 300mcg. The change is only in the percentage, and it resulted from US government committees drastically lowering the DV of biotin from 300mcg to 30mcg. The new value reflects an average daily intake, not necessarily a daily need. This makes general biotin intakes look much better – now most people are around 100% Daily Value from their diets, instead of 30% or less. The regulatory thinking is there’s no change in overall health with the decreased DV. We disagree. We chose to continue with 300mcg biotin to maximize biotin function, especially in persons with common genetic variations that reduce biotin-dependent gene expression and particular metabolic pathways. This is an easily rectifiable impediment to health and performance, so we’re opting to maintain the previous levels. But there is good news: Your competition may be taking a multi that lowered its biotin to the recommended DV.

A: Yes.