My father studied vitamins, minerals, and Holistic/Alternative medicine. He actually cured many ailments with vitamins and minerals. My father wasn't a doctor, just someone who discovered what vitamins can really do.
WHAT ARE VITAMINS
Vitamins are organic substances necessary for your body to sustain life. Think of your body as a car. Your engine needs certain fluids to keep running just as your body does. Your body cannot manufacture, in most cases, its own vitamins. They must be obtained through food or dietary supplements.
Dietary supplements are food substances. Unless they are synthetic, they are made from plants and animals. Vitamins cannot replace food. Vitamins need food to work. You cannot live on vitamins alone. If you have a deficiency in even one vitamins, it can endanger your health.
FAT-SOLUBLE AND WATER-SOLUBLE
Fat-soluble vitamins need fats and minerals to work efficiently and can be stored in the body. In most cases fat-soluble vitamins do not need to be taken every day.
Water-soluble vitamins are excreted and not stored. These are vitamins which should be taken on a daily basis.
HOW MUCH IS TOO MUCH?
So how much can a person take before it turns toxic?
Vitamin A is a fat-soluble vitamin. It needs fats as well as minerals to absorb. It can be stored in your body and doesn't need to be taken daily. The toxicity level in vitamin A is 100,000IU a day for several months. Although in Adelle Davis's book, "Let's Get Well" studies were done to show that many people could take 200,000IU a day for six months without showing any signs of toxicity.
Vitamin B is water-soluble. It must be replenished daily. There is no known levels of toxicity. All excess is excreted through the urine.
Vitamin C is manufactured under the bud of a rose, which is called the hip. It has no known levels of toxicity, but in megadoses, it can bring about diarrhea, excess urination, kidney stones, and skin rashes. If any of these occur, cut back on the amount taken.
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