Tracey L. Black wrote:
I'm glad that your experience with vitamins has been positive. The article
I posted a link to was regarding the effects of vitamins on men
(prostate), and I spoke
of my own personal experience which unfortunately was not positive.
Clearly,
everyone has different sensitivities regarding vitamins, medications,
chemicals
and food. I take a multiple B-Vitamin sometimes in the hope of regenerating
the myelin sheath. I also try to eat wild alaskan salmon because it is
supposed
to be one of the healthiest foods. I have read that farm-raised fish
has higher
levels of mercury. I hope everyone taking vitamins has better luck than
I have.
Kevin
*When my daughter was getting her discharge directions, they suggested
that she take a multi-vitamin. It just so happened that I had gotten a
Teen Multi Vitamin from Vitamin World already at home. I pulled it up
on the website and showed the nurses and they thought it was a good
idea. The bottle says to take 3 a day but they suggested that she only
take 1 unless it was her time of the month and then she should take 2.
She has been doing really well with them and tolerating them well. I
just ordered another 2 bottles to make sure that my 18 year old son
starts taking them again also.*
*I agree with the others that a vitamin shouldn't be taken in the
place of eating healthy.*
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*From:* Kevin Wolfthal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
*Sent:* Wednesday, May 16, 2007 2:56 AM
*To:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: [TMIC] OT Vitamins and the prostate.
Sally,
You're welcome!
Also, as far as I know, vitamin supplements are not regulated, so who
know what we are
really getting in them. I know people who buy every mega-vitamin
advertised on late night
tv, but they will eat 2 big Macs for dinner. And who knows how
vitamins interact with
our medications? I used to take Centrum and started getting pain in
my leg, (pre-TM). The
pain stopped when I stopped taking the Centrum. The same thing
happened to a friend at
the time. As the article stated, some of the men were taking the
multivitamins more than
one per day. If a little is good, a lot is NOT usually better.
Kevin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for sharing that, Kevin.
I like to think of vitamin supplements as first aid; they can help
you get back on the path to health by helping to make up for a
shortage, but they aren't a permanent substitute for good nutrition.
One of the biggest problems is that taking too much of one
vitamin/mineral (in supplement form) can cause an imbalance with
other vitamins/minerals. If you eat too much of a certain /food
/which gives you more than you need of a given nutrient, your body
generally just adjusts to the 'overdose' by absorbing less. But if
you get too much of a certain vitamin or mineral /in supplements/,
your body doesn't usually make the adjustment and you can end up with
an imbalance, which over time, can cause problems.
Sally
