The perils of overloading the body with vitamins, as cautioned by a nutritionist
Dr. Anton Brekin, a Russian nutritionist, told how to maintain health with the help of vitamins without overdoing it.
According to him, vitamins enter the body with foods that a person eats or are produced by certain organs and tissues of the body – skin, intestines, liver. But when a person does not eat a variety of foods and is not in the sun, the level of vitamins in his body may decrease.
And he emphasizes that this affects the general state of health, as a person suffers from chronic fatigue, poor performance, weak immunity, the skin grows dull, hair falls out. Therefore, in this case it is necessary to take vitamins.
He says: “The problem is that the question of vitamins is the prevailing trend, as doctors of various specialties and nutritionists prescribe them to patients, and sometimes even non-medical people recommend taking them. Of course, self-diagnosis and supplementation are much easier than ever. “But without thinking about the danger. Saturation of the body with one or another vitamin. This is an existing problem, and it is very serious.”
And Brikin points out that a high concentration of vitamins to a toxic level means that a certain vitamin has accumulated in the tissues and organs of the body and interferes with its normal functioning. And the level of a vitamin in the body can increase not only when vitamins are taken without discipline, but also as a result of taking them with certain drugs that help improve the absorption process or because they contain vitamins among their components.
And he says: “The most dangerous of all this is an excess of fat-soluble vitamins: A, D, E and K. These vitamins accumulate in fatty tissues and the liver, and their excessive doses can lead to severe and life-long hypervitaminosis. Hypervitaminosis can cause a variety of symptoms: from allergic reactions and indigestion to kidney stones, cardiovascular disease, and an increased risk of cancer. with urine, although this can cause redness of the skin or stomach problems and, of course, a waste of money.
Source: RT