To expect vitamin supplement NOT to contain up to 10 times the Recommended Daily Amounts!

[LEMisafucker]

My DP is currently taking one of those vitamin supplements that make him like him but on a good day!

I am a bit of a skeptic when it comes to these sort of things and also have noticed that he is more agitatged than usual (he gets like this if he is drinking too much coffee too) so i had a look at the indredients and was

Alot of the high level vits in this are B vitamins which i was aware that taking too many can have neurological effects. Also looked up some of the effect of overdose (ok so its pretty hard to overdose on vitamins but its not impossible, especially with long term use) and it was quite worrying.

Have asked him to stop taking them and you would have thought i'd asked him to give up heroin (so im gong to bloody hide the stuff or empty it out so that he runs out quickly and hope he doesn't buy more) I don't want to live with him being grouchy and short tempered because he is pumped up with too many vitamins and fecking guarana which apparently has more caffiene in than coffee

Surely this is not healthy?

Check on the NHS website. They have a list of all the vitamins and known maximum safe dosage (which is usually way over the RDA)

Often multivitamins will go over /under the RDA to optimise the uptake of all of the vitamins taken together.

Also, if for eg, his vitamin is American they have different RDAs to us

You see I don't know much about this but as I recall the rda are the amounts needed to avoid diseases of deficiency. So the amount of vit c needed to avoid scurvy for example. I think there is some debate about whether taking some more over and above has benefits.

I'm not a vit taker - to easy to get lazy with diet.

Maybe your husband is just a grump?

I thought you just peed out the vitamins your body can not store. His up mood would it not be from the caffeine like substance

You can store vitamin c from kiwi fruit it is the only vitamin c we can store in our body :) clever little fruits (so I read years ago)

"one of those vitamin supplements that make him like him"

I'm intrigued - a vitamin supplement wouldn't fit this description. What else does it have in it?

scaevola - its part of the advert for it - "like you, but on a good day" So yeah, its a bit of a claim isn't it!

Fat soluble vitamins can be stored, otherwise you are quite correct, you wee them out - but too much can cause problems. I remember years ago (which is what rang the alarm bells) vitamin b6 being in the news as it was being taken by lots of women at high doses by women with PMT, many were reporting neurological side effects.

munchkin - you could have something there

Unless you have a specific medical reason for supplementing a specific nutrient (eg iron for anaemia, folic acid in pregnancy) vitamin supplements are a complete waste of time and may even be dangerous. There have been studies associating the taking of multi-vitamins with a shortened life expectancy.

If he lives in the UK and eats 3 meals a day, I can't imagine he wouldn't be getting all the nutrients he needs - though NHS do also recommend a vit D supplement now for adults.

Commercial multivitamin pills are a con sold to us by Big Pharma, Holland and Sunday magazines.

In my experience (anecdata alert!) the people who take the orange crap product that your husband takes are always the ones who are the most ill.

Holland? I mean Holland & Barrett obviously -

Ah! With you now (removes [dense] emoticon)

Yes, this product is above RDA, but below Upper Safety Limit.

Um, just read the label and buy the one of the strength you want?! There are various reasons why people wish to buy vitamins of different strengths. YABU.

Vitamin A is the only dangerous one AFAIK, which is why most multivits contain beta carotene, its precursor. That doesn't get metabolised until Vit A drops, and the rest just gets dumped.

I'm going to hazard a guess that the bit that makes you feel 'like you, but on a good day' is the guarana and not the vitamin content.

Many high dose vitamins should be taken with medical supervision anyway and only over short periods of time. Even the water soluble ones. So YANBU.