Thread: Vitamin Question

Just because you pee out vitamins doesn't mean they didn't do their job. You aren't supposed to absorb them and keep them in your system.

You are largely taking them because they are anti-oxidants. They enter your bloodstream and help your body deal with free radicals. It is like hosing down your driveway to clean it... none of the water stays on your driveway, it all just runs off, but it does take a lot of junk with it.

Don't feel bad about peeing out your vitamins

I don't believe there is enough vitamins and minerals in your food. We evolved to survive on lots of natural food and still only live into our 20s or maybe 30s. Cancer and most other disease was never a big problem because you simply wouldn't live long enough to develop it. There are changes in your body that happen as you age and I believe as you get older having unnaturally high levels of vitamins in your system helps you stay healthy at unnatural ages (50+) Without tweaking your body chemistry at these ages, you are much more vulnerable to disease and all the other problems of aging.

... or maybe I am just a quack that follows these life extension freaks. There are lots of studies that show how large amounts of vitamins help prevent cancer and other diseases. There are also conflicting studies that show they don't help... most of these studies though don't use enough of these vitamins or isolate one type of vitamin that really needs other vitamins to be effect. For example, vitamin C is much more efficient if you take an E too. Calcium is absorbed more easily if you take D, etc.

This is the main stuff I take daily...

500-1000 mg vitamin C
400-800 I.U. vitamin E
400 I.U vitamin D
B complex (which also has 150mg of C for some reason)
25,000 I.U. vitamin A as beta carotene
a multi-vitamin for minerals (they have small amounts of vitamins but nothing worth mentioning... like 90mg of C and 45 I.U. of E)
200 mg CoQ10
Fish Oil and Flaxseed Oil
Calcium (not all the time but if I was a female I would)