It’s opt or drop time. Olly Kids Gummies. They taste great.
They’re everywhere on store shelves. And these vitamins look like candy. But one ingredient made me question if they belong anywhere near a child’s daily routine.
These are multivitamins with a probiotic. Let’s go through the ingredients. So we have sugar, one gram. That’s okay. Not so bad.Vitamin A, again. Okay, that’s good. Not bad at all. Vitamin C: All right, some people will not like ascorbic acid as the ingredient for vitamin C, but that is fairly common, especially in drugstore-type vitamins.
Vitamin D and Immune Health
We have vitamin D in here. It’s only a small amount. Certainly wouldn’t want you to think that. I’m giving a multivitamin that has vitamin D. I don’t really need to worry about vitamin D. There’s not enough vitamin D in here for most kids with autism.
So let me just talk about it in the sense of the FRAT test and the autoantibodies, and lucavorin.
If your child has a positive FRAT test and you want to optimize health, maybe you’re on lucavorin, and maybe you are stopping dairying, and you are really tuning into their immune system, vitamin D is one of those foundational vitamins for the immune system. So this product nowhere near has enough nutrients of vitamin D specifically for your child if their immune system is having issues. And many kids with autism do have some kind of immune component to the health issues that they have. The vitamin D is certainly not enough for most kids with autism.
So the fat solubles are A, D, E, and K. They have vitamin A, they have vitamin D, they have vitamin E, but there is no vitamin K in here.
Missing Vitamin K
So they have three out of the four fat-soluble vitamins. The vitamin E was okay. The vitamin B6, now, this is where you start to get into formulations and the MTHFR gene and methylated B vitamins, and this is where you very quickly change from, well, just, you know, take a multivitamin for general health to, okay, I need to be very specific. So, for kids with autism, B6, there is a common supplemental form called Pyridoxine Hydrochloride. And that is what is in Olly. That’s your most common supplement form of vitamin B6.
P5P is what most top functional medicine doctors recommend for those with autism because of its bioavailability. So it’s easier for the body to utilize it, and this is where a product like this is really going to diverge from just general health. Someone who’s healthy just needs a little extra multivitamin, a little extra vitamins, to someone with an immune system that is not performing optimally. So if the FRAT test is positive, you know the immune system is not operating optimally. So, B6, their formulation of B6 is not good.
Folate and B12 Concerns
Folic acid. That’s not the best formulation of foli for kids with autism. We can keep going. So far, this is not looking so good when you’re actually looking at the ingredients.
We have vitamin B12, certainly very important. But this is the formulation is cyanocobalamin.
So cyanocobalamin is the most common form of vitamin B12, but it’s not the best form. It’s synthetic, and the body has to remove that cyanogroup and bind it and detox it and get it out of the body. Now, that is not a large amount of cyanide in the body.I will certainly say that. But why introduce it at all? So once I got to that ingredient, the cyanocobalamin, I’ve got to say, like, it’s a dead stop.
It’s just like, I don’t want to take this. I certainly wouldn’t recommend this to anyone. I would not give this at all to anyone who had autism. And me personally, I don’t want to take it either because the formulations aren’t the optimal formulations. This was relatively cheap to buy, but there’s a reason, right?
Final Thoughts on Formulation
So I hate throwing things away, but there’s no need for me to go through any more of the ingredients. It smells great. It really does look like candy. If the formulation of the actual vitamins were the optimal ones, this would be fantastic.It’s got like a little coating of sugar on it. It’s looking fantastic. It’s probably very easy to give to kids, because it smells great. Tastes pretty great, I’m sure.
But I just wouldn’t eat it now that I know what’s in it. So, for me, it is a complete and utter drop. If you see this in the aisle and you’re thinking about it for a child with autism, I certainly would not recommend it. There are many better formulations that will actually help your child. So this is a total drop. I’m probably going to end up throwing it away.
So unfortunately, Olly Kids Multivitamins and Probiotics is a total drop for kids with autism.
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