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Bugmenot043
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Nov 29, 2006

Oct 1, 2007 8:27 PM

What happens when you eat too many vitamins?

You know, those Flintstones vitamins or whatever. They say two a day, what if you eat 3-4 sometimes a few days? How will this impact you/what effect will it have on your body and running?
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the kenyan
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1. Oct 1, 2007 8:56 PM in response to: Bugmenot043
you get a big head and shrunken other things.....and significant others become far from impressed.

P.S. everything i know i learned the hard way
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Twigger
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2. Oct 1, 2007 10:17 PM in response to: Bugmenot043
Normally your body will flush the extra nutrients out with your urine.

However if you take too much of anything it can be lethal. So watch the iron levels in those vitamins especially, several young children have died from accidently overdosing on them.

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3. Oct 2, 2007 4:44 AM in response to: Bugmenot043
Yeah, some of the things in those multivitamins aren't very good for you (eg. heavy metals like selenium). You don't want to take too many or else the fat soluble nutrients accumulate in your fat cells. Water soluble nutrients like vitamin c and the b-vitamins just get flushed out.

Taking lots of them definitely won't make you a better runner. If you don't have a good reason to take them (eg. iron deficiency), then I'd look at whether you should be taking them. Get your diet as good as it can be possibly be before you start supplementing it.
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4. Oct 2, 2007 7:43 AM in response to: Bugmenot043
addicted are we?
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figbash
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5. Oct 2, 2007 7:56 AM in response to: Bugmenot043
Your body only uses the vitamins it needs. Well balanced meals will provide all of the vitamins necessary and anything extra just gets flushed down the toilet. America has some of the most expensive sewage in the world.

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mrinertia
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6. Oct 2, 2007 8:00 AM in response to: Bugmenot043
quote:<HR>Originally posted by Twigger:
Normally your body will flush the extra nutrients out with your urine.

However if you take too much of anything it can be lethal. So watch the iron levels in those vitamins especially, several young children have died from accidently overdosing on them.

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There are two different types of vitamins, fat soluble and water soluble. Water soluble, like vitamin C for example, will pass through when you urinate. When people take huge doses of C when they're ill, most of it gets wasted. Fat soluble vitamins will build up in your system. Some symptoms include headaches, depression, metabolic issues.
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sam1500
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7. Oct 5, 2007 11:37 AM in response to: Bugmenot043
DEATH!!!
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8. Oct 5, 2007 12:29 PM in response to: Bugmenot043
Lol wouldnt that sound cool, death by flinstones vitamine
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9. Oct 5, 2007 12:32 PM in response to: Bugmenot043
you might SPLODE!!!!
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10. Oct 5, 2007 3:41 PM in response to: Bugmenot043
eh. how old are you?

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Omgopolis
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11. Oct 5, 2007 7:26 PM in response to: Bugmenot043
Common sense tells me that vitamins are good, and more vitamins = more good. It probably depends on which vitamins you overdose on. The only way to be certain is to try popping 4 or 5 of them everyday and see what happens!

Or you can just assume mrinertia and the kenyan fellow know what they're talking about.
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bruncle
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12. Oct 6, 2007 2:08 AM in response to: Bugmenot043
quote:<HR>Originally posted by Omgopolis:
Common sense tells me that vitamins are good, and more vitamins = more good. It probably depends on which vitamins you overdose on. The only way to be certain is to try popping 4 or 5 of them everyday and see what happens!

Or you can just assume mrinertia and the kenyan fellow know what they're talking about.<HR>

Please do not offer advice like this when you have no idea what you're talking about. As Mrinertia and others have said, vitamins are good in small doses (and the dosage depends on the particular vitamin). In large doses they are harmful and can have very severe side effects.

If you were joking, then it was not funny and an inappropriate comment.
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