Those who eat a healthful diet and supplement with vitamins have good intentions, but they sometimes go too far.
Combining a well-rounded diet with appropriate supplementation can mean the difference between feeling “so-so” and thriving. When it comes to vitamins and minerals, though, you can get too much of a good thing through a combination of natural foods, enhanced or fortified foods and supplementation.
Surprisingly, “It is more common for the general population to get too much of a vitamin than it is to have a deficiency, especially for those who make an effort to eat healthfully and take supplements,” says Cindy Moore, director of nutrition therapy at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.
Getting too much of the recommended daily allowance (RDA), or exceeding the “upper limit,” or UL – the highest amount of a specific vitamin or mineral you can ingest – can cause negative side effects due to toxicity, she says.
To see how easy it is to cross that UL line, we analyzed a typical breakfast topped off with a multivitamin, a one-two punch of nutrition many of us get daily. The good news is that you can get the recommended daily allowance of most vitamins and minerals with some carefully chosen foods and supplements. The bad news is how easy it is for good intentions to go too far.
Moore suggests analyzing your day’s intake of vitamins and minerals occasionally. Keep in mind, she says, that nutrients are listed on labels and in reference guides by servings but most of us eat more than a one serving of food.
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Contrasted with prescriptions, all of which have side effects and potential interactions I will take my chances with a natural approach.
If you want to get decent advice on supplements I would recommend ultrametabolism.com written by Dr Hyman who is really good in this area. Access to that site is free. They do have some items available for sale but that's no big deal.
The blood tests from my last physical were the best ever. I have been taking more supplements and fewer drugs.
THEN A LIST OF THE 'NOT NEEDED' AND DOSAGE.
POSITIVE REPORTS MEAN LITTLE WHEN THERE IS NOTING BUT 'ATTA BOY' WORDS.
I agree w. above that the article is void f real info other than a warning to pay attention to the issue.
I know that fat soluble vitamins, i.e. A,D & E (your large intestine makes your vit K), are stored in fat and are toxic in excessive amounts, as are all the metal minarals. The RDA's I learned in the 70'a in college, were determined in the 30's and 40's using prisoners on elimination diets, then slowly reintroducing the withheld nutrient until they no longer suffered the deficiency symptoms. That amounts became the Minimum Required Amounts (RDA). I think some of those amount recommendations have since been raised a little since they were the bare minimum.
The other vitamins are water soluble and are excreted daily if excessive (hence cause less or no harm), but the kidneys especially can be stressed by having to eliminate excessive amounts.
Then there are the so called "nutraceuticals", the herbals which usually don't have known effective or RDA amounts, a whole different category with often unproven claims that change fads.
some though are generally thought to have anti inflammatory properties, but should be carefully checked out with someone knowlegeable enough before taken, esp.in large amounts, as some of them intearct with medications. Hope this helps some of you.
Diarrhea, heart burn, stinkyness from your skin or other more busy glands from your body and out-of ordinary behavior your body signals that its just too much!
Severe reactions are painful or even slightly painful. Up to you to experiment because most doctors dont have the time to do that experimenation with you when its about suppliments. Just information about suppliments. Even i dont know what too much is too much. Just knowing how to read your body is major practice.
Also, researching your heiritage and deciding what was used/ ate most for survival. it just helps to know if you are a decendant of certain tribes, clans, families. It helps determin what you are lacking and what you are eating or taking too much of. Because only you are the only one who knows how to feel. Otherwise do what the directions tell you on the bottle and increase wisely/ safely. Keep a note book around to monitor your own 'feelings' and 'feel-likes'. Then go get your blood tested after each dose increase and makes sure you got the money for all the doctor visits, insurance and co-pays. this is about the only solution i have done.
At 46, the doctor at the time, slid the bag
of vitamins, accross his desk, stating I didn't need them!
Well if I didn't need them doc?
Then just what is it do need? he digs around in his desk and hands me a diebetic diet, on a yellowed, frayed peice of paper,
Oh!
He actually acted offended that I asked
his advice. I had been lactose intolerant,
since I was 15yrs old...
Hence, he ceased to be my doctor!
I did stop the A B C D E. for about 3 months,
my skins dried up like a potatoe chip, the
skin vitamin E. Heck I had the skin of a girl 20yrs old, "with my freckles" (giggles)
My A&D was for the milk I couldn't have and my bones. Which I have since broken both feet, and both wrists.
I also was told in 1997, I would need an artificial HIP, OR WALK with an apparatus,FOREVER!! NO NO NO!!!
And with the help from God above, and a wonderful, Theraputic nurse, It took two years, but today "I WALK,!!!!!!ON MY OWN TWO FEET! AND I TAKE MY VITAMINS EVERY DAY.!!!!
MY MISSION I AM A LIVE IN CAREGIVER!
I WORKED HARD AT IT, AND I MADE A IT IS MY
PROMISE, TO GOD. IF YOU ALLOW ME TO WALK WITHOUT ANY THING TO HOLD ME UP!
I WILL, SPEND MY LAST DAYS, TAKING CARE OF OTHERS WITH MORE PROBLEMS, THAN I DO.
UNTIL LAST DECEMBER. I HAVE KEPT THAT PROMISE. I DO HAVE OTHER MEDS, BUT I WON'T GIVE UP MY VITAMINS. FOR NOBODY!!!!
After my last patient, my D.O. and the shrinks from Hospice, to take a break!
I am happy to be able to share this story!
I am blessed to have made it through it.
WITH MY VITAMINS! AND IN ABOUT 6 MORE MONTHS.
I'LL BE BACK, TO HELPING OTHERS!
Actually I'm kinda cheating, I have adopted
and 80yr old neighbor of mine...
Its not the vitimins, it's the the whole self.
TAKE CARE OF THE WHOLE MIND BODY AND SOLE.
GOD BLESS EVERY DOCTOR, NURSE RIGHT DOWN TO THE PEOPLE WHO DECIDE TO BECOME MEDICAL
WORKERS...
WHY DO YA THINK THEY CALL IT MEDICAL PRACTICE
TRUST, GOD AND HE WILL LEAD YOU WHERE YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE.... AND YOUR DOCTOR TOO.
BUT I'M KEEPING MY VITAMINS.... AND I BELIEVE I FEEL BETTER DOING IT!
JUST LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE, MODERATION IS THE
KEY TO LONG LIFE!!
http://www.arthritistoday.org/treatments/supplement-guide/index.php
I question the validity of RDAs but that is a dicussion for another time.
To Florence, if you are getting sick, try eating with your multi. That may be what is making you sick. I have a few clients who have to do that.
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