Better With Chromium?
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Better With Chromium?
Your mom needs to lose weight. She swears she doesn't need multi vitamins. Just as when you were a teenager, you're fighting--but now the roles are reversed. Sort of makes you wish you hadn't slammed the door so often. You apologize, and finally she agrees, mollified by those words, "I was wrong." Your mom's multi vitamin supplement contains chromium chloride. To decrease insulin resistance, does she still need chromium picolinate? Should you look for multivitamins with chromium picolinate? Chromium chloride is difficult for the body to absorb, so it's difficult to get all the chromium the body needs from complete multi vitamins that contain chromium chloride. Your mom needs a chromium picolinate supplement, 200-400 mcg a day, to reduce insulin resistance. If she's diabetic, she should only take chromium picolinate with her doctor's advice. Or your advice. You've given your mom your counsel for the best multivitamins, and she accepts you as an adult. That argument over dating what's-his-name even though she didn't approve? Forgotten--you're now married to what's-his-name, after all.
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