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Rule -> RE: Vitamins You Actually Absorb (2/4/2012 11:06:53 AM)
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ORIGINAL: kitkat105
If you do not have a deficiency (ie. a need for) a particular vitamin, excess will just be excreted.
That applies for vitamin C, but not for most or all other vitamins. Vitamins are a necessity, but too much of specific vitamins can do damage. If someone eats fairly ordinary, and has no extraordinary problems, then I would recommend a multi vitamin tablet only incidentally, like once a month.
Indeed, if there is a chronic disease - in my case herpes - a fair number of vitamins can exacerbate the disease. So I try to be a bit on the low side of the optimal vitamin balance rather than on the high side. The only vitamin supplement that I do take in quantity is vitamin C.
In fact, if someone has an excessive shortage of a vitamin, the best strategy is to address the cause rather than to simply increase the vitamin dose as it may fuel a causative disease instead.
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