[candiddevmike]

I've experienced the vitamin thing too, even when taking a multivitamin. Turns out that I don't absorb vitamins in a pill very well, switching to chewables and chewing the hell out of them has eliminated a ton of weird physical/mental things for me.

[disabled]

You can crush the tablets with a mortar and pestle, which you can buy online. A mortar and pestle is very cheap and is basic lab equipment. Alternatively you can use a pill crusher which is available in pharmacies.

You can buy empty capsules (gelatin/vegan/flavored/etc.) online or at a local vitamin/supplement store. They are in standardized sizes like 0 or 00 or something similar.

You can fill the capsules with the crushed tablet material using something called a “pill machine” (search for it online). The pill machine that you buy needs to match the size of your capsules. So if you buy 0 sized capsules, you need to buy a capsule machine that uses size 0 capsules.

[eurasiantiger]

Multivitamins are often sort of a scam: they contain cheap versions of vitamins that are not directly bioavailable, and essential minerals that are in a non-water-soluble form. All this leads to poor bioavailability.

In addition, some vitamin forms are actively harmful, such as the very common vitamin B12 form, cyanocobalamin, which releases cyanide as it becomes bioavailable. Better B12 forms such as methylcobalamin can be demethylated enzymatically and the free cobalamin is then able to bind to free cyanide (or other toxins) and remove them from the body.

[ThePowerOfFuet]

Have you considered capsules instead? Chewables typically have very few active ingredients, rather being almost all gelatin and sugar.

[candiddevmike]

No, can you recommend some?

[ThePowerOfFuet]

Two-Per-Day Capsules from Life Extension, either directly from their site or resold via Amazon. It's everything you should need, in a capsule form which should have no problem coming apart in your stomach. It's around $15 a month.

If you want the ultimate, look at Life Extension Mix, which is 9 big tablets or 14 capsules per day because there's so much stuff in it, but this is overkill for most people (and at something like $50 a month it is not cheap).