All essential minerals need to be supplied either through the foods we eat or through supplementation. Unfortunately, chromium is an essential mineral that is very poorly absorbed by the body. Researchers found that when chromium is bound to picolinic acid, the absorption is significantly improved. Picolinic acid is a natural metabolite found in breast milk, believed to help babies better absorb the minerals found in mother’s milk. The addition of picolinic acid to a chromium molecule results in a complex called chromium picolinate.
Although there are other forms of dietary chromium available to consumers,
research suggests that chromium picolinate is the easily absorbed,
effective and safest form of chromium available.
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