How to Best Absorb Vitamin A Supplements

Vitamin A helps you in many ways, such as maintaining healthy skin, prevents night blindness, and can even help protect against cancer. You can find vitamin A in two different forms, preformed retinol and beta-carotene. There are some things you can do to help your body absorb the vitamin A supplements better.

1. Taking vitamin A supplements along with fatty foods will help you absorb them better, as fat helps it absorb properly.


2. Take vitamin E along with vitamin A, as vitamin E helps vitamin A metabolize. Vitamin E is good for your skin, hair, fingernails, and organs in your body.


3. Take Zinc along with vitamin A, as it helps it metabolize also. Zinc is good for your growth and development, and may even help with symptoms of the common cold.


4. Do not take mineral oil laxatives along with vitamin A, because they will destroy any vitamin A found in your body.


5. Take antacids any time you feel you need to, as they also help vitamin A absorb into your body.


6. Drink less alcohol while taking vitamin A, as alcohol will also stop vitamin A from absorbing into your body. Drinking less alcohol, obviously, has many other health benefits also.


7. Smoke less or don’t smoke at all if you take vitamin A. Smoking kills the vitamin A found in  your body.


8. Make sure any prescription drugs you take on a continual basis do not interfere with vitamin A supplements absorption. There are some medications that are known to do this, such as medicine you take for cholesterol problems. You can ask your pharmacist or doctor, if you are not sure.