Question by Parissa: am i over doing it with my vitamin intake?
i’ve just started taking various vitamins for the first time in my life.. i’m 41 years old
list of supplements:
B Complex, C, D, E, Acai Berry, Fish Oil, Royal Jelly, Ginseng, Evening Primrose Oil & Zinc tables
would like to add a few more but a bit concern as to whether i might OD 
Best answer:
Answer by The One
There is almost no possible way to overdose on vitamins.
What do you think? Answer below!
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The answer of course is always yes. In the UK at least the average person on a normal balanced diet, which is of course important. neither needs nor benefits from ANY vitamin supplements. In fact there is currently more concern about the potentially toxic effects of excess vitamins! A, D, E and K, which are fat soluble are the most likely to cause problems.Acai Berry, Royal Jelly, Ginseng and Evening Primrose Oil are all just pointless!
Taking vitamins, minerals and oils is unregulated by the FDA..as a retired nurse epidemiologist I have had patients come in with weird signs and symptoms. I’ve now learned to get a health history that includes taking OTC supplements, vitamins, minerals and oils is a big red flag when I find out how much someone is taking in a day. Like the old philosophy was “if a little bit does a little good, then a lot will do a lot of good to our bodies”. NOT true. Too much potassium will have side effects that cause your heart to beat faster, Vitamin B is the last thing to be absorbed in the intestines, I don’t see the benefit of taking zinc unless you’re planning to get pregnant again. I recommend taking your vitamins, etc in moderation. When you start perimenopause, go to your doctor about hormone placement. Personally I couldn’t take anything… pills, patches or injections as they all gave me headaches. I was able to tolerate the natural estrogen and now of course those days are well over.
Yes. that is very much overdoing it.
If you don’t eat that many fruits take some vitamin C.
If you don’t like milk and cheese, take some calcium.
If you don’t like fish, take some fish oil.
And that is really more then enough right there. You aren’t planning on powerlifting or running a marathon, you don’t need all that extra crud if you eat relatively healthy.
The “real” vitamins you are taking are water soluble. The fat soluble vitamins, A, D, E & K, are stored in the body fat and you CAN OD on those. The “alternative” stuff, (royal jelly, acai berry, ginsing, zinc, etc), have not been proven in studies to do anything at all, so you can take them or not, depending on if you think they are doing anything.
Yes, you can overdose on vitamins, but not because vitamins are a waste of time. Doctors, nurses, step way out of their expertise when advising people on nutrition because they have no training in the subject.
Many of the vitamins sold today are junk. In fact, most of them are, so when you hear from the medical people telling you vitamins are a waste of time, in many respects they are correct, but again for all the wrong reasons. All but from one company I know of, the “B” vitamins you get in a jar from the store are made from the petroleum distillate, Coal Tar. Just take one of those pills and then go to the bathroom and look at the yellow color and smell the stench. It is your body trying to desperately tell you something.
It is clear that to say “eat a balanced diet” will solve all your health requirements for being healthy in today’s world, is ridiculous, knowing what is in foods and not in foods, especially in America. Just look at what people are served in hospitals that are supposed to be a balance diet. What a complete joke; processed foods, jello, and pasteurized dairy ice cream for desert? Yikes!
It would be good to hear from those that say “Eat a balanced diet” to tell us exactly what they mean. Following the USDA guidelines for example, breast milk is not an acceptable food.
So supplementing the diet is almost mandatory today to get beyond just being functional as medical people suggest is being healthy. The systematic destruction of the food supply is definitely causing huge medical problems around the world. It becomes obvious that something needs to be done to the food supply to change all that and to say “eat a balanced diet” is certainly a very silly proposition in today’s world if you want to focus on health.