I have been taking 3000mg of vitamin C daily for 7 or 8 years now, at
the recommendation of my doctor who take the same amount himself.
I also take NF Formulas Spectrient w/o Iron (see what it contains
here
http://www.integrativeinc.com/go/integrativeinc/_productdetails.aspx?alias=integrativeinc&tabalias=_productdetails&partcode=196004
). Again this was also at the specific recommendation of my doctor.
At 10:17 AM 2/12/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I find a lot of people tend to misunderstand about vitamins as a
result of thinking of them as 'natural', and reading things like,
for example, 'vitamin C is non-toxic and big doses are okay because
your body can just flush out the excess'. That is true, but you
have to remember that doing so, puts extra stress on the kidneys,
whose job it is to do all that flushing! Within reason, it's not a
problem. But taking MEGA doses of vitamins for extended periods of
time, if they are not really needed, can throw things way out of
balance, and give the liver a lot of unnecessary work to do.
Just as an example, if you take extra B6, you're likely to need
extra magnesium (if you're not already getting it in food), because
they balance each other. If you take extra magnesium you may need
to take extra calcium, because they need to be in balance. If you
take too much of some nutrients, your body will learn to absorb
less. People on mega doses of C, for example, when they cut back,
have been known to have reactions similar to people that are
actually suffering from LACK of vitamin C, because the body has
learned to absorb only a small percentage of what is consumed, to
protect itself.
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Jim Lubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://makoa.org/jim
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