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Megadosing: The practice of taking athletic drugs and
supplements in dosages far beyond those needed to obtain a desired
effect.
Take a Chill
Pill
If you’re constantly digging your hand into a jar of
vitamins, popping one into your mouth faster than you can chew the
last one, then take this word of advice.
Take a chill pill.
While vitamins are certainly an essential part of your everyday
intake, there are certainly perils in over-indulging in such
products.
The term “megadosing” refers to the condition in which
you intake more than 10 times the determined RDA (Recommended
Dietary Allowances), a condition that can ultimately prove to be
hazardous to your health.
The body will store essential vitamins and minerals until needed,
but when it is housing excessive amounts or more than necessary, it
can take on a toxic effect. Thus, many of your organs are directly
put at risk.
The vitamins most dangerous to megadose on are the fat-soluble
ones, namely Vitamin-A, Vitamin-D, Vitamin-E, and Vitamin-K.
Megadosing on Vitamin-A has been linked to complications for
pregnant women among delivery, while Vitamin-C has been linked to
kidney stones. Vitamin B-6, taken in excess, can damage your
nervous system while many others can damage the liver and
kindeys.
Indulging in too many vitamins of one type can also upset the
balance, thus leading to deficiencies in other vitamins. It can
also interfere with the effectiveness of other medications you are
taking.
Do not be worried about megadosing on vitamins from your natural
food intake. The chances of that are slim indeed. For example,
eating high amounts of salad or green vegetables is highly unlikely
to result in a megadose of Vitamin-K.
However, be wise when taking vitamins that you intake through
tablet or pill form. It is hardly a more-the-merrier scenario, not
unless long-term medical ailments will bring you glee. |
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