Can you explain how vitamins are absorbed by the body?

You would die of "water toxicity" before that happened. By "water toxicity" I am referring to consuming so much water that the electrolyte levels in your body drop below the minimum threshold to support brain and organ function.

That is one of the most basic, yet also most broad questions I've ever been asked.


To put it simply, vitamins are digested the exact same way food is.

First broken down in the mouth by saliva through the process of chewing. Some vitamins are absorbed sublingually (under the tongue) which reaches the bloodstream exceptionally fast.

Others much first traverse the upper GI tract and full digestive system before they can be absorbed and distributed.

Some vitamins are fat soluble (A-E-D-K) and others are water soluble (ALL B, and C).

The fat soluble ones stay in the fats in your body, the water soluble ones are used and excess is then removed via urination.

hello thar raynor.

if i had 5g of some powder, and within that 5g's there is 100 servings, how would i go about measuring this / making sure im using the right amount?

Scale.

5g = 5,000 mg.

So 100 servings = 50mg each serving.

To measure 50mg in weight, you need a very sensitive digital scale.

OR you can simply take the 5g in powder and put it into 100 equal servings (much harder)

hope you're well man

So I think my BP is slightly elevated (about 140/70-80)

today it was 138, I need to fix something in my diet probably. MY salt intake could use reduction (ok), but is there any other route to decrease my BP? I drink enough water as is, so I can't just add another 2 liters of water to decrease my bp, can I?
I don't like to do cardio, and I don't have too much sodium (I don't physically add it in ANYTHING at all, I may add salt once in my food all week). I do eat chicken tenderloins and an occasional frozen pizza (ya you know these lol), I'll put some red sauce on my chicken as well, but I feel like I do it all in moderation. Is there anything I can do besides adjusting my salt content and trying to have those foods less?

Looking for a solution that I can add, not to subtract the foods I eat? lol

Increase potassium, calcium, and magnesium intake and you should be good to go. Your BP is NOT that high....when did you take it? Resting? Or after a meal/exercise?

Question.

I'm doing a very intense training routine currently. Squaring, benching, and weighted chin ups 4x a week.

I've been told to get at least 8 hours of sleep for muscle recovery, but due to school and work my body has kind of adapted and sometimes its hard for me to get the 8 hours. So if I wake up after lets say 6.5-7 hours of sleep. Is my body telling me it is fully recovered or should I try to get more somehow.

Both times I have taken it was after breakfast and after I was drinking some coffee (still finishing it in most cases) as I got to physical diagnosis lab.
I was never really concerned honestly, but I feel like I eat well still. But the fact that it was a little higher, how much could it be influenced by eating in the AM just before?

I'm hoping general health is ok. It kinda freaks me out in retrospect because I'm trying to cut and I feel like I'm generally in good health.
I know pizza is good for raising bp (it gave me higher bp in middle school and I went on Mg pills)

I'd prefer to stay away from pills and adjust diet without having to give anything up. Sounds stubborn, but I just feel I honesty don't have THAT much sodium, the thin crusts I eat don't even make up 2/3 of the RDA a day (if I eat the whole thing which I normally don't, or I split it into 2 meals) ..

Tl:dr - if I have htn, then so does everyone else and their mom lol
But I do try to get quite a bit Ca a day, (at least the 100%), not sure how to get the Mg/K without a supplemental vitamin