Re:Vitamins Are a Waste of Money–And They're Not Helping You...
by hcarvalhoalves on Thursday February 26, 2015 @11:27AM
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You're right about deficiencies, but it's more complicated than just increasing intake. For instance:
- For most people, vitamin D is lack of sunlight.
- Magnesium absorption depends on how well your intestines are working because ~50% is excreted. It's also related to diet and lifestyle (soda hinders absorption, coffee and stress increase excretion). On top of that, low intra-celullar Mg levels are not detectable with a simple blood test, so most people don't even know they are deficient until it gets severe.
- Too much vitamin A is toxic, but our body can metabolize vitamin A from carotenoids like Astaxanthin which are much better tolerated.
There are now more studies concentrating on the precursors to vitamins and absorption than the vitamins themselves.
- For most people, vitamin D is lack of sunlight.
- Magnesium absorption depends on how well your intestines are working because ~50% is excreted. It's also related to diet and lifestyle (soda hinders absorption, coffee and stress increase excretion). On top of that, low intra-celullar Mg levels are not detectable with a simple blood test, so most people don't even know they are deficient until it gets severe.
- Too much vitamin A is toxic, but our body can metabolize vitamin A from carotenoids like Astaxanthin which are much better tolerated.
There are now more studies concentrating on the precursors to vitamins and absorption than the vitamins themselves.