Crazy Idea:
Instead of sourcing many food grade chemicals to make up a micronutrient solution, how about we try human multi-vitamin and mineral supplements..?
I've been looking at the options, wanting to find one that is:
- Internationally available
- Comprehensive in vitamin and mineral content
- Affordable
- Fairly easy to get into solution
So far I'm thinking Centrum Advance Women 50+ which claims to have:
- Vitamin A (RE) (50% as beta-carotene) - 800 µg
- Vitamin E (α-TE) - 16 mg
- Vitamin C - 80 mg
- Vitamin K - 30 µg
- Thiamine - 1.5 mg
- Riboflavin - 1.8 mg
- Vitamin B6 - 2.1 mg
- Vitamin B12 - 7.5 µg
- Vitamin D - 15 µg
- Biotin - 75 µg
- Folic acid - 300 µg
- Niacin (NE) - 20 mg
- Pantothenic acid - 9 mg
- Calcium - 340 mg
- Phosphorus - 105 mg
- Magnesium - 107 mg
- Iron - 4.2 mg
- Iodine - 100 µg
- Copper - 500 µg
- Manganese - 2.4 mg
- Chromium - 40 µg
- Molybdenum - 50 µg
- Selenium - 30 µg
- Zinc - 5 mg
The 50+ range seem to have higher concentrations of most things than their regular Advance other than iron, and the Women variety has more of most things than the mens (including Iron). I also looked at Sanatgen A-Z Complete which contains concentrations of each of the above bar Potassium (possibly not an issue since we have KH2PO4 in the main solution. I also looked at H&B Expert, Lamberts Multi-Guard and Performance Lab Nutrigeneses the last two of which contained more ingredients than the Centrum options but was concerned that these may not be easily available outside the UK. The Performance Lab were attractive as they come in capsules, so we wouldn't need to grind up the pills, but some of their ingredients (like fibre) may cause issues and they are significantly more expensive.
Anyway what do you think? Is there anything that our Hydrogen Oxidising Bacteria may be missing, or indeed anything that may inhibit their growth, and do you recon one tablet crushed into 1L would be the right concentration? I have reached out to Prof Rabaey and will try to compare the above with his micronutrients solution when I get my hands on a copy.
