MULTIV
HIGH-POTENCY MULTIVITAMIN
The new MultiV meets the specific micronutrient needs of athletes, supporting the immune system, reducing fatigue, and improving recovery. It lays your foundation for building a strong base and staying healthy all year long.
✓ Industry-leading immune system protection
✓ Helps you get lean & stay lean
✓ Unrivaled antioxidant support
✓ Reduces fatigue & improves oxygen efficiency
-Michael
REAL RESULTS
"MultiV made a tangible difference within a week of taking it. Bloodwork and labs proved this after 30 days even Mr. Dr noticed."
-ANDY
WORTH THE INVESTEMENT
"As a professional athlete my paycheck depends on my ability to perform I gave Multi V a try just to see if it was worth it and now unfortunately/fortunately I’m never going back"
ENGINEERED FOR ENDURANCE
ESIGNED SPECIFICALLY FOR ENDURANCE ATHLETES.
Endurance athletes are defined by constantly balancing on a fine line: fitness and wellness vs. underperformance and illness. They also require more than off-the-shelf multivitamins provide.
The new MultiV formula provides vitamins, minerals, and patented components shown by clinical research to be critical, real-world needs for athletes training in multi-hour blocks of high-intensity endurance exercise.
Everything in MultiV is research-driven. We’re not guessing, and we’ve left nothing to chance.
I've been taking MultiV all year & the only time I got sick was the month I ran out."
EVERYTHING BUILDS ON THIS
THE FOUNDATION FOR YEAR-ROUND HEALTH.
You wouldn’t run on untied, blown-out sneakers. You wouldn’t swim in baggy cotton trunks. You wouldn’t corner on under-inflated tires riddled with dry-rot. But so many endurance athletes neglect the most important piece of equipment: their bodies.
MultiV is the foundation a dedicated athlete needs to build a base and maintain race-ready fitness the entire season, more important than daily stretching or the occasional drivetrain tune-up. A daily multi with this level of endurance-specific support is the starting point for maintaining a healthy body, year-round – especially in today’s endurance world, where most dedicated athletes don’t have an offseason.
PREMIUM IMMUNE PROTECTION
STAY HEALTHY. MISS FEWER DAYS. HIT MORE TARGETS.
Endurance nutrition often focuses on the bioavailability of carbs, nutrients, and electrolytes, but none of that matters if the athlete isn’t available to compete – and the harder you train, the more taxed your immune system is. MultiV 2.0 contains a new, extremely potent dose of highly refined yeast beta glucan, which reinforces the immune system. Less risk of upper respiratory tract symptoms commonly associated with training and racing. Less risk during constant exposure while traveling to events.
PREMIUM IMMUNE PROTECTION
STAY HEALTHY. MISS FEWER DAYS. HIT MORE TARGETS.
Endurance nutrition often focuses on the bioavailability of carbs, nutrients, and electrolytes, but none of that matters if the athlete isn’t available to compete – and the harder you train, the more taxed your immune system is. MultiV 2.0 contains a new, extremely potent dose of highly refined yeast beta glucan, which reinforces the immune system. Less risk of upper respiratory tract symptoms commonly associated with training and racing. Less risk during constant exposure while traveling to events.
MORE CARBS, MORE EFFICIENTLY, MORE AGREEABLY.
The latest research shows that athletes should be consuming ~90g/h to 120g or more during intense, multi-hour efforts. MultiV helps your gut adapt to higher carb intakes in two ways. First, by powering GI energy metabolism to process more carbs. Second, by supporting general digestive health for overwhelmed GI tracts.
The net effect? You get all the essential calories you need without wreaking havoc on your already-taxed gut. Your GI tract suffers enough; throw it a lifeline.
MultiV is engineered to help you utilize the high amount of carbs you need during training and racing without GI distress.
BURN FAT, NOT MUSCLE
HELPS YOU GET LEAN AND STAY LEAN
The reimagined MultiV now contains ChromeMax®, a patented chromium complex that's been shown in several clinical studies to help you burn body fat while maintaining lean muscle*. It works by helping the body utilize insulin more efficiently. That helps the body metabolize glucose for energy, preserving muscle mass to help you achieve and maintain a lean, race-ready body composition, year-round. Chromiumplays a key role in weight management, but standard diets often skimp on it, so supplementation is necessary to reach effective levels.
*When used with a healthy diet and exercise program.
MultiV now contains ChromeMax®, a patented chromium complex that's been shown in clinical studies to help burn body fat while maintaining lean muscle.
CATALYZE PERFORMANCE
INCREASES ENERGY & ENHANCES OXYGEN CARRYING CAPACITY.
Red blood cells are the vehicles for oxygen transportation. Oxygen is the catalyst for muscles firing. The new MultiV is engineered to support red blood cell formation by including micronutrients like folate, vitamin B12, Ferrochel® iron, and choline – the latest essential micronutrient and a newcomer to the MultiV line.
When iron levels are low, less oxygen is delivered to working muscles and aerobic capacity declines significantly.
ELEVATE ENDURANCE
RESEARCH SHOWS 50-70% OF ENDURANCE ATHLETES ARE IRON DEFICIENCT.
Iron is one of the most important nutrients for endurance athletes, playing a pivotal role in oxygen utilization, energy production, and immune function. Persistent fatigue, diminished motivation, and a decline in power can all be warning signs that indicate low iron levels.
MultiV contains a clinically effective does of Ferrochel® iron to support your body’s oxygen transportation and utilization infrastructure, reducing fatigue and boosting performance. This safe and highly bioavailable form guarantees maximal absorption without any risk of toxicity.
SUPPORT WHAT SUPPORTS YOU
IMPROVES BONE AND JOINT HEALTH.
Endurance athletes are notorious for vitamin D deficiencies, largely because they have a radically different real-world need than the general population. In the new MultiV, we increased the amount to provide better bone health, joint health, and immune support. Vitamin D works with magnesium and boron to maximize intramuscular calcium functions, which are important for telling your muscles when to fire, preventing cramps, and metabolic fuel signaling.
The new MultiV also delivers a clinically effective amount of vitamin K2 to maintain bone, joint and blood vessel health over time. The new MultiV’s vitamin K form, MK7, is more potent and better studied than the previous MultiV’s MK4. For vitamin K2, we only use K2VITAL®, which protects the vitamin in a carrier that prevents MultiV’s calcium and magnesium from degrading it.
A GIANT LEAP IN ANTIOXIDANT PROTECTION
REDUCES MUSCLE DAMAGE AND IMPROVES RECOVERY.
Free radicals are the unavoidable byproduct of exercise, and the more you exercise, the more your body produces. They’re also tangible in the worst way, manifesting as the cell-damaging muscle soreness and discomfort that follows a workout – and impedes performance while trying to stack consecutive days of training or racing.
To neutralize free radicals in athlete’s bodies, the new MultiV formula includes Spectra®, a proprietary extract that provides the balanced, full-spectrum antioxidant protection needed for peak performance. Spectra® is a blended suite of food antioxidants, so it helps reduce the fallout of exercise without negatively impacting recovery and training adaptation, which is a risk with high doses of single antioxidants.
A GIANT LEAP IN ANTIOXIDANT PROTECTION
REDUCES MUSCLE DAMAGE AND IMPROVES RECOVERY.
Free radicals are the unavoidable byproduct of exercise, and the more you exercise, the more your body produces. They’re also tangible in the worst way, manifesting as the cell-damaging muscle soreness and discomfort that follows a workout – and impedes performance while trying to stack consecutive days of training or racing.
To neutralize free radicals in athlete’s bodies, the new MultiV formula includes Spectra®, a proprietary extract that provides the balanced, full-spectrum antioxidant protection needed for peak performance. Spectra® is a blended suite of food antioxidants, so it helps reduce the fallout of exercise without negatively impacting recovery and training adaptation, which is a risk with high doses of single antioxidants.
RESEARCH
Optygen works on three different levels all working synergistically with the goal of increasing endurance. Endurance is defined as your ability to perform work over a period of time where there is oxygen delivered to the muscles. There are three critical components necessary to increase your endurance capacity.
1. EFFICIENT OXYGEN TRANSFER
Rhodiola and Cordyceps are the key ingredients in Optygen. Clinical research on elite athletes has shown both these adaptogenic herbs increase oxygen utilization, increase the body’s ability to adapt to high levels of physical stress, increase anaerobic threshold and reduce lactic acid. These herbs are both found and cultivated in Tibet. Clinical studies on Cordyceps have shown it increases endurance. In a 1998 study, Dr. Edmond Burke demonstrated how these two adaptogenic herbs improve the efficiency of oxygen transfer in the cell leading to improvements in oxygen uptake and VO2max.
2. ATP PRODUCTION
Endurance athlete’s VO2max is directly proportional to their ability to efficiently produce Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP). Clinical research has shown that endurance athletes diminish their ATP stores in exhaustive exercise, which can lead to a reduction in aerobic metabolism and endurance. Since ATP is the final step in aerobic energy production, it’s critical that the nutrients feeding the ATP cycle are readily available. Calcium pyruvate, sodium phosphate, potassium phosphate, adenosine and d-ribose all play critical roles in glycolysis and the citric acid cycle, leading to efficient ATP production. Optygen’s proprietary ATPro™ matrix of five key nutrients is designed to assure ATP production.
3. EFFICIENT GLUCOSE METABOLISM
The Optygen formula utilizes chromium for its ability to break down fuel. Chromium is an essential trace mineral that aids in glucose metabolism, regulation of insulin levels, and maintenance of healthy blood levels of cholesterol and other lipids. Chromium forms part of a compound in the body known as Glucose Tolerance Factor (GTF), which is involved in regulating the actions of insulin in maintaining blood sugar levels and, possibly, in helping to control appetite. It’s critical that any drink, bar or meal consumed prior to a race or exercise gets broken down efficiently in order to maximize your fuel delivery. Insulin spikes or lack of insulin response can cause the nutrients to either be rushed into your bloodstream too quickly or not quickly enough. Chromium regulates this nutrient breakdown so you have equal and sustained nutrient delivery to the working muscles.
Q&A
Q: How should I take MultiV?
A: Always (always!) with a meal to aid absorption and digestion.
Q: Should I take MultiV every day?
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.
Q: I weigh 125 lbs. Should I still take three tablets?
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
Q: Do I need to take all three tablets together or can I split it up?
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.
Q: Is there an exercise-performance or energy-boost benefit to taking MulitV before training/racing?
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.
Q: Is it better to take MultiV in the morning or at night?
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.
Q: Can I take MultiV and Optygen at the same time?
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.
Q: If I take MultiV, should I also take HALO and Optygen?
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.
Q: Is MultiV vegan friendly?
A: Yes.
Q: Why does MultiV contain non-traditional MVM nutrients likeGinkgo biloba extract, green tea, beta-glucan, antioxidant blend, boron, vitamin K2 MK7?
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.
Q: How long does it take to start noticing the benefits of MultV?
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.
Q: Why did you use a different folate instead of folic acid?
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.
Q: Compared to the previous MultiV, why did biotin increase 100% DV to 1,000% DV?
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.
Q: Is MultiV gluten-free?
A: Yes.