Re:Ask HN: Which vitamin supplements do you take?
by dalore on Friday May 21, 2010 @10:07AM
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I got told me quite the opposite, from people with actual medical degrees. That multivitamin supplements aren't all that useful since the body tends to not absorb much of it and excretes it. It's better to get the vitamins from your food.
If vitamins get fully absorbed why is my piss bright green when I take a multivitamin?
Have you tried to take the vitamin with food?
Me, I split my "One A Day" type vitamin/mineral pill into two and take one half with breakfast and lunch. I avoid dinner for minerals to give any excess the best chance of getting excreted during the day when I'm pushing a lot more water though my kidneys.
As for your problem ... are you sure that's not just some dye in the pill? I don't know of anything that would be "bright green" that you'd likely be taking.
Examples: If you bring more calcium in the body it can subside in kydneys in the form of sand-particles.
If you bring more vitamin D into the body, the body starts to pull out calcium from the bones and sends it to the kidneys and to the heart-muscle.
She's a pediatrician and а homoeopath and feeds us (my girlfriend and me) with blue-green-algae additives, because they contain all the stuff in it's natural form, so the organism can take whatever it needs out of it and excrete the rest.
Her supplier of choice is AquaSource (a multi-level-marketing company), but there are many other companies that offer similar stuff.
Sorry for my ("medical") english, had a gard time translating it from my native language.