Here's a little advice from a 55-year user of vitamins, minerals, nutritional supplements, etc.:
Before venturing into the land of self megadosing, you need to acquaint yourself with the voluminous material on the extensive subject, and also establish a sensible protocol for yourself. I am not criticizing you, just advocating a sane approach. Yours is a common mistake -- the "if 1 gram is good, 10 grams must be great!" mentality, which I was guilty of myself many years ago. Chuck is 100 percent right in his advice. Intake of certain nutritional supplements requires restraint, even though the vitamin manufacturers are not as informed of these dangers as they should be. Certain physical conditions determine certain sane intake dosages of certain substances. Heavily-promoted iron, for instance, is dangerous in high dosages. On the subject of Vit. E, I took 1g daily for years until reading a serious research report some years ago that this intake was not healthy, and reduced my intake to the sane "high" dosage of 400mg daily. I have been taking vitamins, etc., since the age of 7, when I was diagnosed by teachers and doctors as "low energy" which resulted in inattention in class. They moved me to the front row and started giving me gagatacious liver extract (it tasted like pureed liver). I am now 63 and still learning. Take it further -- educate yourself and proceed cautiously, with lower dosages for trial periods to determine if you see any results, and if you don't in 30-60 days, increase your dosage to the next level. Don't catapult the dosages. I hope these cautions are taken to heart, because they are offered with your best intentions at heart. ----- Original Message ----- From: <cking...@nycap.rr.com> To: <silver-list@eskimo.com> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 4:28 PM Subject: Re: CS>selenium, vitamin E, and CS > > Slow down Pat!!! > > If you're gonna screw with megadoses, you had better be researching toxicities. > Metals are especially dangerous with small windows for error. > > You'll find FDA recommendations too low for optimum, but you damnwell better > find out what a dangerous dose is! > > Here's a clue, most metal supplements are made up in MICROGRAM doses. > > Recommended copper, for example, is only 3mcg daily. > > If you told your doctor that you were taking 1 gram of E daily, he tell you to > cut it (mine did, I didn't). > > Chuck > A computer's attention span is as long as its power cord. > > On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 16:02:51 -0400, INGRID KROPP-OVERSTREET <pfsing...@msn.com> > wrote: > > >really? I was about to up the dosage to 600 mg. whoa better lower it huh. what do you recommend? > > > >see i read that when you take it as a pill it is not as effective as if it were in the ionic form, so i upped the dose. thanx for the info. > > > > > -- > The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > > Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org > > To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com > > Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com> > >
