I have a friend who takes all kind of vitamins in the mornning i get full watching her just swoleeing all these pill and was wondering. what are some benefits you stand to recieve by taking a multivitamin every day and can taking a multivitamin everyday raise your intake of a particular vitamin or mineral to near toxic levels? what are the consequences of toxicity?
2007-09-14 07:10:32 · 5 answers · asked by lois g 2 in Health ➔ Other - Health
vitamin pills are pretty much useless, they do not dissolve in the digestive tract and are for the most part excreted in your stool. One of the major problems waste recycling plants have is vitamin pills clogging up thier systems. Call any of those plants in your area, they will tell you that.
A liquid, balanced, multivitamin that is 100% bioavailable, will indeed do you some good (I take life force myself), but taking mega doses of any of the B vitamins, for instance, can shut down your liver, and you die. Too much iron can cause hemachromatosis, and you have to have blood drawn off every day or two. There are volumes written on what too much of this sort of stuff can do to you, if you want to know more suggest you google vitamin toxicity.
2007-09-14 07:22:36 · answer #1 · answered by essentiallysolo 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The latest studies I've seen indicate longer life spans for those who take a simple multivitamin (100%) supplement every day, than for those who take mega-vitamins or no vitamins at all.
There could be problems with this data. For example, do people who take mega-doses have a medical issue they hope to correct?
Other more reliable data show that too much of many nutrients can interfere with the absorption of another. While water-soluble vitamins like B and C are excreted in the urine, fat-soluble vitamins like A and D can build to toxic levels, causing liver malfunction.
This would suggest the best course is to go light on the supplements (unless prescribed by a doctor), and to get most of your nutrients from real food.
While whole foods tend to limit intake, too many greens or carrots, etc., especially when juiced, can result in overdose of vitamins A and K with consequences, too. Balance is the best strategy.
Since vitamin technology has changed a lot in the last generation, we will probably not know the complete answer until all the mortality figures are in for today's pill-poppers.
2007-09-14 14:23:43 · answer #2 · answered by James 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In today's world food is stored, freezed and treated in many ways. By this it loses much of its vitamin content. It is good to take a multivitamin daily. Some vitamins should not be taken in large quantaties, these are the ones that disolve in fat rather than water. Vitamins that dissolve in water are not a problem since the body gets rid of the extra amount in urine like B and C vitamins. But A and D vitamins that dissolve in fat are stored in the body and the extra amounts cause problems.
2007-09-14 14:25:53 · answer #3 · answered by Balsam 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is not too much of a change because the vitamins dont stay in your system for a very long period of time.. you actually get rid of them through urine. you notice after you take a vitamin that your urine is very bright yellow after all the mineral are out of your body your urine returns to its normal color..so they dont stay in your body long
2007-09-14 14:21:09 · answer #4 · answered by Julie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Toxicity is rare .. yes they are good for you .. fruit and vege from supermarkets dont have any vitamins in them anymore as such.
2007-09-14 14:40:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋