90% of Adults Don't Get Enough Choline

Added: 2026-05-18

[00:00:00]The official numbers are about 90% of adults don't get enough. You know, and that gets even worse in special populations, but you can see they're falling short. And the amount they're falling short by both for men and women is in the 100 to 200 mg range. Now, that doesn't mean that there's going to be any sort of a health concern there. We don't know that. What we do know is you're not getting the amount you need.

[00:00:22]And we also know from studies obviously that your body's going to get what it needs to get regardless. I think coming kind of back around to the point, you know, with with all of this nutrition, choline bitartrate really we source it's it's it's made by using tartaric acid.

[00:00:36]That's one of the components. And the tartaric acid we get is actually from wine production. At the end of that, you get a product that's called lees, which is kind of unrefined powder at the bottom of the vat. And then that can be further refined down to pure tartaric acid. And that pure tartaric acid acid is the kind that's found in nature. When you think about choline content, choline bitartrate has about 40%. So, that tartaric acid is actually making up a lot of what's kind of carrying the choline. You can't just take choline by itself. It has to be either with a carrier like choline chloride or choline bitartrate or there are other forms bound forms called alpha-GPC and and citicoline these types.