Quote (Darkblue @ Apr 30 2011 02:24pm)
is a multi like Orange triad expensive piss?
vitamins beyond the 100% daily value is pissed out if they are the water solluble vitamins and fat solluble vitamins get stored but do they present any benefit if im getting 800% of my daily value EVERY DAY?
ive also heard of vitamin poisoning called hypervitaminosis from storing too much of a particular vitamin such as vitamin A. how much vitamin A would i need to take in one day or every day to get hypervitaminosis A?
Ok first of all...the FDA establishes a very distorted set of "DAILY VALUES" which has absolutely NO bearing on what your body absorbs or not.
The FDA broadly generalizes a set amount of vitamins/minerals and macronutrients that THEY feel is good for an average person on a 2,000 calorie a day diet. The problem is, almost every vitamin/micronutrient/mineral they suggest is well below where it should be. In addition, their macronutrient breakdown is entirely messed up.
According to them, you should take in 50g protein, 65g fat, and 300g carbs. They also say 60mg of vitamin C is sufficient. This is absolutely disgusting and truly proves the idiocy of the FDA.
When you take a GOOD multi like CL Orange Triad or NOW! Adam, you are getting the maximum amount of absorbable vitamins for your body. Sure, you probably will lose 5-10% of them, but that goes for ANY amount of directly consumed supplemental vitamins. There will always be a small margin lost in digestion. However, the other 90-95% that makes it to your bloodstream is infinitely useful.
NEVER consider "daily values" ever again. That is a surefire way to NOT get enough nutrition and to also imbalance your entire diet.
In order to achieve vitamin toxicity...you would need to take in an absolutely ridiculous amount of a vitamin. So much so that it would be irrational to expect from taking daily vitamins, even handfulls worth. Don't even worry about this, even if you ate nothing but carrots all day and took double the dose of multivitamins you would not even be REMOTELY close to vitamin A toxicity.