What I didn't like about this video is the total absence of any concrete numbers. How much more vitamins these people took 1000%? 2000%? Perhaps 10000%? Because it certainly wasn't something as simple as 25% more.
@@ÁzsiábaSzakadtam But it's not in the video. The point of my comment that the video is framed in a misleading way, as what he explains happens at doses many times more than the recommended, it's not that easy to do.
Just discovered your channel , I am 73 and I've been taking vitamins supplements for more than 30 years and with high doses of D3 ten thousand IU every single day and 3 grams of vitamin C daily so far nothing happened to me and I'm feeling much better nothing I repeat nothing wrong happened to me ! thanks for your information
Always take D3 not D2. Our bodies have to convert D2 into D3 before it can even use it. Also be sure to take the co factors of D. Taking D causes calcium to absorb 20x more from food and vitamins. Without the co factors you end up in trouble with soft tissue calcifications in your joints (causing arthritis and osteo issues) and arteries (causing strokes and heart attacks). Vitamin K2 ensures the D/calcium goes into the bones where it belongs, preventing the soft tissue calcifications. Taking D lowers mag so magnesium is one of Ds co factors also. There are 9 forms. Stay away from citrate and oxide as they are the cheap forms that do nothing but cause loose stools and gi issues. Take a good form like malate, taurate or glycinate. I do malate in the am as it gives energy and helps with pain, then at night I do glycinate as it promotes relaxation and calm. Also, when taking D another co factor is Vitamin A. It helps prevent you from going toxic on D.
3 vitamin rules: 1. Get a genetic test to see what you are low on absorption and supplement what you lack 2. Read studies on dosages and check dose, 3. Only buy high quality lab tested supplements.
Exactly. One thing I'll add, incorporate a variety of whole foods into your diet, as the synergistic cofactors cannot be replicated in a synthetic supplement.
Thank you for the anecdotal evidence of the damage vitamins can cause, especially the vitamin C. Let me add my anecdotal evidence about taking vitamins. In the eighties I was catching cold 4 to 5 times a year, so I was concerned about my job. Finally I decided to take at least 2 grams of vitamin C every day, and soon my friends started to say that I was never sick. This was an exaggeration of course. I've been taking same amount for at least thirty years, so it wasn't THAT deadly - for me at least. The motivation to try this much vitamin came from my friend who was diagnosed with MS, which is basically a death sentence. He was a born researcher, found surprising information at the university's library, and started to experiment with up to 50 grams (50,000 mg!) of vitamin C daily among other things. The only undesired side-effect was that he frequently had to visit the the bathroom. He is alive today with a very much reduced vitamin C intake! This video about the possible negative effects of the vitamins would feel more honest if you would compare it with the deadliness of some of the over the counter medications, such as aspirin, otherwise it feels like you have a hidden agenda.
Supplements are not dangerous at all, if you are knowledgeable. Just like anything else, you have to know what you’re doing. I’ve been taking lots of supplements for almost 40 years. All my blood work is perfect. I’m 60 years old, and everyone thinks I’m in my 40s. The fact it that we cannot get all our nutrients from our denatured and adulterated foods.
it's only if you over take them like 4 a day of vC and D that will make it worse. You only really need one a day and that's if you been low on vc and d for awhile you could take it 2-3 days later and your levels will be refreshed.
Vitamin c has helped my psoriasis greatly. I eat vitamin c rich foods and take a supplement of c. I've tried different things to improve my psoriasis and this works the best.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the studies of synthetic vs natural/organic vitamins and that the level of dangerous dosage is different based on whether the vitamin is synthetic or from a natural source. I just found this out when trying to pick prenatal vitamins and trying to figure out what dosage or the vitamins work best for my diet. And some vitamins in multivitamins are useless unless taken with food because they are fat soluble.
@@karlhungus5554 The "synthetic" form is not the same chemical form as the "natural" one, which may be different and more bioactive, or may be a mixture of forms.
I’ve seen studies comparing the fake vitamin C (ascorbic acid), which is NOT identical, but differs in one component, is actually worse than no supplement. Natural vitamin C is beneficial for many types of human tissues and cells.
I think one of the best thing in natto is the bacteria that can produce vit K2. One of the most important for health especially when combined with vit D3 and magnezium.
...counting with the number of people lacking vitamin d due to working in office or as workforce in warehouses it is normal to see a 52% people needing some since 75% of people in America are deficient in vitamin D
I read that vit. E supplementation only gives you 1 type of vit. E, while your body needs 8. And that vit. E supplementation will fill your receptors with just that one type, preventing your body from getting absorbing the other 7 from your regular food.
As a gastric bypass patient I HAVE to take supplements. If I don't my organs will start shutting down. Your stomach makes many vitamins. So if you're doing this surgery to get skinny and look good think again. I was starting kidney disease and insulin was not working anymore for me so I got bypass surgery to save my life. It is not fun. I can't eat many foods and five years later I still throw up.
glad to see this topic covered! It always frustrates me when snake oil salesmen portray them as the cure-all magic substance they aren't. I hope this picks up traction.
SURPRISE !! The REAL snake oil salesmen are orthodox, allopathic medical doctors who don't know their A.... from a hole in the ground when it comes to nutrition. Rare exception to what I just stated - those rare 1, or 2, or 3 percent Unorthodox licensed medical doctors that are nutritionally oriented. These are the only M.D. 's that I can allow myself to be treated by. What ? No other medical doctors ?? YES, ABSOLUTELY NO OTHER MEDICAL DOCTORS. !! This person giving this lecture is by the way - a total plethora of misinformation. WOW !!
I bought a bottle of niacin way back when I was smoking pot because I thought I had an upcoming drug test and I heard that niacin could help "clean you out" if taken a sufficient amount of time before the test. I didn't even take very much, three pills, and about twenty minutes later I felt like all my skin was on fire. I turned red and had a bunch of little red bumps pop up too. It was uncomfortable enough to be pretty painful. My friend had told me to take twice that many and I'm really glad I didn't listen because if that sensation had gotten much worse I would have started to claw my skin right off my body.
@@neurotraveller not if you overdose and you don't carefully read the instructions given in the box. Any medical product/drug can give you side effects, especially if you overdose.
LMAO. you don't take nicotinic acid (niacin) in such high amounts the first time you take it. You got the nicain flush. It's normal and harmless but unpleasant when you take too much niacin when you don't know what you're doing. I always laugh when I hear people talk about the flush they didn't see coming. But don't blame the innocent vitamin, blame the ignorant user.
There was no clinical link between vitamin C supplementation and the illness in the example in this video. Vitamin C has been given in high doses to hundreds of thousands of patients since the 1930s with great benefit and no adverse effects. Vitamin C is one of the least toxic substances known. According to the therapeutic index, a lethal dose is 50 (LD50-the dose at which 50 percent of the subjects would die). The therapeutic index of vitamin C for an average-sized adult taking 1 gram is 350, which indicates a high degree of safety. The claim that vitamin C supplementation causes kidney stones is not valid because kidney stones are not found in people who take large amounts of vitamin C regularly over many years. There is also no tangible clinical data linking consumption of vitamin C in high doses with stone formation. The theoretical effect that vitamin C will increase oxalate excretion and cause kidney stones has not been observed. Although vitamin C does increase the production of oxalate in the body there's no evidence that it also increases stone formation. Wild primates consume human equivalent of between 2-7 grams of vitamin C daily every day of their lives. They are healthy.
synthetic versus natural vitamins - especially with Vitamin C an important factor. Synthetic Vitamin C is not really Vitamin C because VC in nature always appears as a Vitamine C Complex... synthetic Vitamin C is in fact just the outer layer (ascorbic acid) of this Complex and is way less efficient and can cause issues because of that.
why they say vitamins are a waist if it can do us bad if we take to much. thought they said we just pee it out anyways. so this is not true. hmm I'm going to get a blood work up. thanks
I am a fully qualified Nutritionist and i've taken 6000 grams of vit C a day, 10,000 iu of D3 a day for over 10 years now. Health is perfect, immune to c0vid (many around me got it and I spend time in clinics and hospitals as well), immune to the flu (have never had it nor the flu shot), hormone levels are great and essentially the same as 20 years ago. Look feel and act young for my age, competitive in sports. Don't believe the Doctors and Hospitals who benefit from you being sick and have no nutritional knowledge worth a damn and who contradict clinical and hospital studies. Much of what's reported as fact in this video is unproven theory.
@@catalyst3713 depends on the individual, I do gomad and take 2g of vitamin c daily, no kidney stones, some people are genetically more/less prone to kidney stones.
The difference is the physiological pH of the vitamin. They are the same structure, but exist in different pH (specifically a hydrogen ion either bonded or not).
@@SaphemanPlus no no i'm talking about l5mth-folate vs folic acid. Apparently the first one is much more easily absorbed and turned into the metabolically active form.
Come on man. You give 2 anecdotal examples. The problem with B.C was that he was eating a meat only diet. You don't even tell how much C he was taking on a daily basis. Same goes for C.M. Was he taking 200% or 900.000% the daily dosage of A and Ca? A is fat soluble, so always be careful with that.
Correct, a young boy does not need high doses of vita A as kids are not drinking, smoking and taking drugs yet and their intestines are in pristine condition creating all the vitamins they need. Unless of course they are on an insane vegetarian or vegan diet, which must only be used for up to 2 years if your seriously sick and need to detox.
This is why I take my multivitamin/muiltimineral every other day. Sometimes 2 days in between. Well it's things like why the hell does there got to be vitamins added to a protein shake? Like do you really think a person using protein shakes doesn't already take their multivitamin/muiltimineral? Or watch their diet for that matter.
I have been taking vitamins for some time now and made a lot of difference I try to hold kinda close to RDV to not to over due and try to take the natural vitamins like Vitamin C not the synthetic stuff cause its doesn't do of any good to the body and it may cause harm only natural in part of eating healthier as well.
Invest in a good multi,Just cycle your multi, 1 month and few week off and again, vitamin d can take in high dosages together and ZInc magnesium and iron because ZMA most of the time low in multi vitamin, and some natural herbs as ashwagandha and tongkat Ali
it's kinda crazy reading the comments from all these non-science/medical nootropic researchers duking it out over vitamins and supplements and use the odd bit of recent herbalife lit they've read as if it gives them some credibility. commenting about IU and bioavailability like they've read too much iHerb reddit support threads. we need more experts talking, hopefully unbiased, and not more amateurs trying to talk the talk. it just spreads the misinformation, which is sad.
This video is a not correct. You should take vitamin A as the precious as betakaroten. The form is not described. Yes Iron is bad in high dosage. B9 as folic acid is not preferred, folate is the form we can use direct. The form is missing. D3 needs to be taken with K2 to avoid calcification and magnesium to support the body becouse D3 activities 3000 different processes. This info is missing. K2 and q10 lower risk for heart decrease according to studies. There is also 100+ studies that say that D3 decrease risk for cancer. Correct vitamins and plante based food without fast carbs, milk products, sugar low in heavy metals can do wonders to the body.
This video is an interesting perspective on vitamins though totally incomplete. The person is correct that one has to study this field better to gain a better understanding. However, there are a lot of things left out of this video that are VERY IMPORTANT. First, you have to start with what kind of vitamin E or D you are taking. Vitamin dL-tocopherol is derived from artificial substances and is not easily converted into the body. Can the body even use it? Then you have to compare it to d-tocoperol and alpha , beta , gamma forms. Vitamin D2 is not the right form. My Mother-in law was deficient in vitamin D so she took the wrong form and guess what.....she still had low blood levels of vitamin d. Second, yes there are studies to show that vitamins do help with cancer and other aliments. BUT DID YOU EVEN LOOK or just throw up your hands and say that is not true. I question the integrity of this individual whether or not he is being paid by big pharma or just is new to all this info. If you really want to know about vitamins check out information by Dr. Joe Wallach. It is b/c of his work that folate helps prevent birth defects such as Spina Bifida for example. And he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine but the FDA won't give it to him. In fact they sued him dozens of times and he won every time. Hmmmm.....Go figure.
It'll be way easier for your body to break down & absorb any vitamin or mineral naturally versus taking it in a pill, so improving your diet ultimately should help & will save you stomach issues from ingesting all this extra junk on a daily basis, that's my opinion
As with many things health related the issues are complex. I would like your opinion on using vitamins intermittently and fasting to create hormetic nutrient stress. I use a strategy of intermittent fasting with nutritional supplementation only on workout days, mostly to enhance metabolic rate-limiting elements eg. Mg augmented with an expansive amount of natural polyphenols eg. mushrooms, fruits, veg. Additionally, I do prolonged fasts normally 5 days. Even though I have been doing this for years I am still working out the optimum refeeding protocol. I think a big part of the problem is to think we should need to find one-dimensional static system answers and not look at optimizing a dynamical system.
you do its just this video for people who over dose them and if your low on v c and d u take it but if u gotten 100% from apple probably no need to take them.There is a reason why they tell u 1-3 lol and you only need 1 a day from c and D. The other vitamins come from food and some smoothies.
Geeze, just realized I've been taking 4000UI of Vitamin D daily to prevent my headaches and to help focus when the recommend amount is only 600UI, and 2000mg of Vitamin C when you're supposed to only have 90mg a day, thou 200 is the upper limit a day. But for me it prevents headaches and helps me focus and be awake as I'm deathly allergic to coffee (not caffeine), so I can't drink that to wake me up and energy drinks are even worse for your body
Most of the RDIs have been calculated in already metabolically sick populations and/or people with specific dietary & lifestyle habits. Most RDIs are probably observed averages in people that are not obviously sick, but being metabolically sick is not always obvious. Maybe the RDIs are not accurate for everyone? Possibly some of the RDIs are incorrect for everyone. I have been taking 5000 IU vitamin D3 (with a K2 supplement) for a few years. My serum levels are top of the suggested range, but not over. That assumes the suggested serum range is accurate. Vitamin D stores in fat, so if you are losing weight, you might release more and may need to consume or make less. This storage in fat is also why vitamin D can become toxic in very high doses. Your 4000 IU is not even close to a high dose. There is also the consideration that the RDI for vitamin D originally had a mistake in the calculation pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28768407/ It is now suggested that 5000 IU for an adult is absolutely fine, possibly it could be as high as 8000 IU. Get some good sun for even a relatively short time and you could generate a lot of vitamin D. Then consider that many RDIs could be wrong. People on carnivore diets do not appear to need any other sources of vitamin C. The more carbs you eat, the more vitamin C you need to compete with those carbs. On a low carb or carnivore diet, meat contains enough vitamin C for what the body needs. As long as you don't overcook your meat.
According to studies, most people require 1000 to 2000 iu's of vitamin d everyday. And up to 4000 daily iu's is perfectly safe. Toxicity with vitamin d is above 50,000 iu's everyday. That's when you get calcium build up in the blood. The rda of vitamin d at 600 iu's continues to be controversial as far as I have been lead to believe; it's too low. I take 1000 iu's everyday. I find it protects the health of my respiratory systems every winter.
Very bad idea, Omega 3’s are basicaly a heart poison when taken by themselves. Take unfortified unfermented cod liver oil instead and ALWAYS take it with vitamin E to protect your cells from the oxidation. This is exactly what the video is about, when we don’t know enough about what we are taking it will make us more harm than good.
Ditch the fish, and start taking a high quality algae oil. All the benefits, with none of the contaminants and heavy metals. You could also increase the intake of ALA rich foods, like flaxseed, hempsed, chia seed, and walnuts.
I was surprised that you didn't mention the crazy dosages of many vitamin supplements. I have seen pills that contain 13 times the recommended daily amount of one vitamin, five times for the next, 87% for another and some are just missing (still marketed as a daily supplement). I still take vitamins due to my 12-15 hours/week of high physical activity and low sun exposure, but I try to stay at or below the recommended daily amount.
Like most things dealing with the body, it depends on the person. For instance, the daily recommended amount of Vitamin D is 600 IU for adults, but the safe upper limit before most start to see negative effects is listed as 4,000 IU per day. If possible, it's best to have a blood test done to know exactly where you stand, but negative effects from most vitamins are only seen at very high dosages. For people, like me, with more melanin in their skin. Vitamin D is absorbed poorly from the sun so it's very hard to get the daily amount from sun exposure and near impossible in the winter months (then add in increased cancer chances that come with more sun). If I'm not getting enough vitamin D in my diet I'm going to need a larger dosage than someone with fair skin, who spends a lot of time in the sun, and eats lots of salmon.
@@kerstonhuston540 Those dosages are wrong, recent studies found out that recommended daily vitamin D dosage was wrong by a factor of 10. So maximum is 8000IU of vitamin D. Im taking years this dosage (8000 IU), vitamin D in my blood is perfect. I get my blood checked regularly.
This is scare mongering I have been taking 10 thousand mg one day and 5 thousand the next day and I not had a cold for 7 years. Blood tests fine and no issues what so ever.
Seems like common sense that the right way we should be intaking vitamins is in the quantity they would appear in a natural serving of healthy food. If you would need to eat a dozen oranges in one sitting to get a dosage equal to a single vitamin C pill, that's probably more than your body can handle.
Im overdosing regulary with vitamin C when I am sick, never had any problems, kidneys work perfectly well. All Im doing, using nature that had this system for milions and milions of years on our body. Only part where I personally would get suspucious is who distributes my vitamin C supplement. Thanks for the video, I would agree eventually with this topic on vitamin D
You realize that's just survivor bias right? Someone else might have issues from a dose that causes someone else no problem. Genetics makes our organs quite different, it's unwise to take chances just from one or two examples.
@@Leonhart_93 smart said, well the guy that read about and listen to, has apperantly won nobel price in field of medicine, and he also said same thing as you, not every human absorbs vitamin C at the same rate but the differences are small.
@@baconisgood4me746 Well there is this other thing that it's hard to get into in the youtube comments section since it's so hard to explain, but basically the commercial version of vitamin C is substantially different from the naturally occurring one, which is why I have my doubts that it does all that much. So the commercial one is just Ascorbic Acid and nothing else, while in nature vitamin C is a complex, with Ascorbic Acid as the anti-oxidant exterior layer, and on the inside it has all kinds of things like copper, p, j and k factors. The problem with the mass produced one is that it's similar enough and it might get absorbed instead of the natural one you get from food. But as I said it's a long discussion.
Ok, but there's a difference between taking 5000IU of vitamin D daily, like many people do, and taking the recommended amount of 800IU. Besides, getting B vitamins and heme iron from your diet is hard when you're vegan.
I feel that there is a big difference between synthetic vitamins and the naturally occurring ones,I stay away from "Fortified" foods and use foods with natural vitamins like Pine pollen, molasses, nutritional yeast, Fish oil ,Sourkraut (vit c)liver, and all these vitamin,s need balancing with adequate mineral intake, use natural one,s again .eg horsetail tea, shilajit,seaweed.
Im taking 8000IU of vitamin D daily. Take regular blood analytics, vitamin D is always perfect. Recent studies found out that the recommended vitamin D dosage is wrong by a factor of 10.
It depends on geographical location, sun exposure, time of year, and melanin. But yes, it seems current guideline recommendations are too low. From my findings, 2000-3000 IU daily is ideal for most people.
also vitamins and minerals are synergistic or antagonistic, and influence each other. Many times the balance between nutrients are just as important, so taking a supplement (that is not in it's natural whole food form as a package with other vitamins) can throw off the balance. Like D3 and K2 go together and zinc and copper should be balanced, omega 3 and omega 6 etc. Also ascorbic acid is just one part of the vit c compound.
as someone who had had digestive issues his whole life, my viatmins are what help me greatly, i am a 76 year old male and people always tell me i dont look my age and the one thing i have found is that if you use crap cheap vitamins you are wasting your time but they can act as a placebo for you and make you thing they are working. diet also has to be reasonable also and i find cutting out sugary stuff like donuts, cakes etc makes a big difference also. ; if vitamins did not work then there would be no effort to squash them by the pharmaceutical industry that only deceives people who want a quick fix rather than change a life style,
What I didn't like about this video is the total absence of any concrete numbers. How much more vitamins these people took 1000%? 2000%? Perhaps 10000%? Because it certainly wasn't something as simple as 25% more.
i agree. without knowing what dosages caused damage, we still know nothing.
Same here. A lot of yadieyadieya
And we do know vitamins don't work in isolation. Take D3 for example. The Cashmere people mentioned ought to have been given K2 & Mg along with it.
Read the references. All of them are in the description
@@ÁzsiábaSzakadtam But it's not in the video. The point of my comment that the video is framed in a misleading way, as what he explains happens at doses many times more than the recommended, it's not that easy to do.
Just discovered your channel , I am 73 and I've been taking vitamins supplements for more than 30 years and with high doses of D3 ten thousand IU every single day and 3 grams of vitamin C daily so far nothing happened to me and I'm feeling much better nothing I repeat nothing wrong happened to me ! thanks for your information
So what is the SINGULAR of anecdote ?
Nothing happened
It's just like overeating right
Try replacing your synthetic vitamins with two or three kiwis a day and just 500 mg of elemental magnesium.
You are not a large sample size.
Always take D3 not D2. Our bodies have to convert D2 into D3 before it can even use it. Also be sure to take the co factors of D. Taking D causes calcium to absorb 20x more from food and vitamins. Without the co factors you end up in trouble with soft tissue calcifications in your joints (causing arthritis and osteo issues) and arteries (causing strokes and heart attacks). Vitamin K2 ensures the D/calcium goes into the bones where it belongs, preventing the soft tissue calcifications. Taking D lowers mag so magnesium is one of Ds co factors also. There are 9 forms. Stay away from citrate and oxide as they are the cheap forms that do nothing but cause loose stools and gi issues. Take a good form like malate, taurate or glycinate. I do malate in the am as it gives energy and helps with pain, then at night I do glycinate as it promotes relaxation and calm. Also, when taking D another co factor is Vitamin A. It helps prevent you from going toxic on D.
what about D from sun? gotta take all those "co factors" as well?
@@Slyj Most cant absorb enough D from sun alone, to fix any deficiencies.
Don't take either one. It's not natural to supplement with a hormone especially one made in a laboratory.
@@Slyj how much d3 do you get from ur regular stroll under sun tho
Perfect comment 👍👍👍! Best wishes from Germany/Bavaria 😃.
3 vitamin rules: 1. Get a genetic test to see what you are low on absorption and supplement what you lack 2. Read studies on dosages and check dose, 3. Only buy high quality lab tested supplements.
Exactly. One thing I'll add, incorporate a variety of whole foods into your diet, as the synergistic cofactors cannot be replicated in a synthetic supplement.
Thank you for the anecdotal evidence of the damage vitamins can cause, especially the vitamin C.
Let me add my anecdotal evidence about taking vitamins. In the eighties I was catching cold 4 to 5 times a year, so I was concerned about my job. Finally I decided to take at least 2 grams of vitamin C every day, and soon my friends started to say that I was never sick. This was an exaggeration of course. I've been taking same amount for at least thirty years, so it wasn't THAT deadly - for me at least.
The motivation to try this much vitamin came from my friend who was diagnosed with MS, which is basically a death sentence. He was a born researcher, found surprising information at the university's library, and started to experiment with up to 50 grams (50,000 mg!) of vitamin C daily among other things. The only undesired side-effect was that he frequently had to visit the the bathroom. He is alive today with a very much reduced vitamin C intake!
This video about the possible negative effects of the vitamins would feel more honest if you would compare it with the deadliness of some of the over the counter medications, such as aspirin, otherwise it feels like you have a hidden agenda.
He does have a hidden agenda because he’s a shill that works for Big Pharma
Thank you.
I am taking at least 4 grams (4000mg) of vit C daily. I am 62 and never get sick.
It probably is a hidden agenda.
his hidden agenda is to make clicks and get money
Supplements are not dangerous at all, if you are knowledgeable. Just like anything else, you have to know what you’re doing. I’ve been taking lots of supplements for almost 40 years. All my blood work is perfect. I’m 60 years old, and everyone thinks I’m in my 40s. The fact it that we cannot get all our nutrients from our denatured and adulterated foods.
it's only if you over take them like 4 a day of vC and D that will make it worse. You only really need one a day and that's if you been low on vc and d for awhile you could take it 2-3 days later and your levels will be refreshed.
Not everyone… 😬🤣
sunflower and pumpkin seed almonds and cashews
@@Xerxez22 unnecessarily rude, do you feel better having said that?
And, by the way, you certainly are beautiful. Holy moly. No doubt about that.
Vitamin c has helped my psoriasis greatly. I eat vitamin c rich foods and take a supplement of c. I've tried different things to improve my psoriasis and this works the best.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the studies of synthetic vs natural/organic vitamins and that the level of dangerous dosage is different based on whether the vitamin is synthetic or from a natural source. I just found this out when trying to pick prenatal vitamins and trying to figure out what dosage or the vitamins work best for my diet. And some vitamins in multivitamins are useless unless taken with food because they are fat soluble.
"synthetic vs natural/organic vitamins" -- Can you explain "synthetic" and "natural" vitamins?
@@karlhungus5554 The "synthetic" form is not the same chemical form as the "natural" one, which may be different and more bioactive, or may be a mixture of forms.
I thought the exact same thing.
I’ve seen studies comparing the fake vitamin C (ascorbic acid), which is NOT identical, but differs in one component, is actually worse than no supplement. Natural vitamin C is beneficial for many types of human tissues and cells.
Like any other substance, abuse isn't the way to go. This doesn't mean vitamins aren't good.
Along with a healthy diet and physical exercise. 😎
I think one of the best thing in natto is the bacteria that can produce vit K2. One of the most important for health especially when combined with vit D3 and magnezium.
...counting with the number of people lacking vitamin d due to working in office or as workforce in warehouses it is normal to see a 52% people needing some since 75% of people in America are deficient in vitamin D
I read that vit. E supplementation only gives you 1 type of vit. E, while your body needs 8. And that vit. E supplementation will fill your receptors with just that one type, preventing your body from getting absorbing the other 7 from your regular food.
4 tocopherols and 4 tocotrienols make up the whole vitamin E.
Wow bro really recommended by youtube after I took vitamins rn... LoL my phone is spying on me again
I just searched for a ashwaganda and banana smoothie recipe and this popped up so yeaaaahh ...definitely spying...smh
My godparents’ Dad took a cabinet shelf full of vitamins a day, he lived to be 103.
The main thing to do if you take vitamins is drink lots of Water
I just take a normal multi vitamin to make sure my levels stay good since I tend to eat junk food
which brand?
Wow… I take a lot of vitamin C and have been getting extremely debilitating headaches. I guess I need to stop.
depends what kind of vitamin c and it maybe means you're detoxing. research.
As a gastric bypass patient I HAVE to take supplements. If I don't my organs will start shutting down. Your stomach makes many vitamins. So if you're doing this surgery to get skinny and look good think again. I was starting kidney disease and insulin was not working anymore for me so I got bypass surgery to save my life. It is not fun. I can't eat many foods and five years later I still throw up.
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glad to see this topic covered! It always frustrates me when snake oil salesmen portray them as the cure-all magic substance they aren't. I hope this picks up traction.
SURPRISE !! The REAL snake oil salesmen are orthodox, allopathic medical doctors who don't know their A.... from a hole in the ground when it comes to nutrition. Rare exception to what I just stated - those rare 1, or 2, or 3 percent Unorthodox licensed medical doctors that are nutritionally oriented. These are the only M.D. 's that I can allow myself to be treated by. What ? No other medical doctors ?? YES, ABSOLUTELY NO OTHER MEDICAL DOCTORS. !! This person giving this lecture is by the way - a total plethora of misinformation. WOW !!
Did you see the whole video?
@@Cardinalbins no he did not
True Vitamins are just Mambo Jambo, but drugs made out of petrochemicals is what your body needs. Go get yourself some fentanyl it's good for you.
anime profile pic, opinion disregarded.
I bought a bottle of niacin way back when I was smoking pot because I thought I had an upcoming drug test and I heard that niacin could help "clean you out" if taken a sufficient amount of time before the test. I didn't even take very much, three pills, and about twenty minutes later I felt like all my skin was on fire. I turned red and had a bunch of little red bumps pop up too. It was uncomfortable enough to be pretty painful. My friend had told me to take twice that many and I'm really glad I didn't listen because if that sensation had gotten much worse I would have started to claw my skin right off my body.
Why didn't you read the leaflet first?
Niacin will give you a flush and it is harmless
@@neurotraveller not if you overdose and you don't carefully read the instructions given in the box.
Any medical product/drug can give you side effects, especially if you overdose.
@@user-xf7mu7ub9d its a niacin flush, thats supposed to happen when you take niacin Lmao
LMAO. you don't take nicotinic acid (niacin) in such high amounts the first time you take it. You got the nicain flush. It's normal and harmless but unpleasant when you take too much niacin when you don't know what you're doing. I always laugh when I hear people talk about the flush they didn't see coming. But don't blame the innocent vitamin, blame the ignorant user.
So many vitamins, even a small (ex vitamin D3, liquid iron, magnesium glycerinate, etc) put me into a deep sleep, its hard to wake.
There was no clinical link between vitamin C supplementation and the illness in the example in this video.
Vitamin C has been given in high doses to hundreds of thousands of patients since the 1930s with great benefit and no adverse effects.
Vitamin C is one of the least toxic substances known. According to the therapeutic index, a lethal dose is 50 (LD50-the dose at which 50 percent of the subjects would die). The therapeutic index of vitamin C for an average-sized adult taking 1 gram is 350, which indicates a high degree of safety.
The claim that vitamin C supplementation causes kidney stones is not valid because kidney stones are not found in people who take large amounts of vitamin C regularly over many years. There is also no tangible clinical data linking consumption of vitamin C in high doses with stone formation. The theoretical effect that vitamin C will increase oxalate excretion and cause kidney stones has not been observed. Although vitamin C does increase the production of oxalate in the body there's no evidence that it also increases stone formation.
Wild primates consume human equivalent of between 2-7 grams of vitamin C daily every day of their lives.
They are healthy.
synthetic versus natural vitamins - especially with Vitamin C an important factor. Synthetic Vitamin C is not really Vitamin C because VC in nature always appears as a Vitamine C Complex... synthetic Vitamin C is in fact just the outer layer (ascorbic acid) of this Complex and is way less efficient and can cause issues because of that.
why they say vitamins are a waist if it can do us bad if we take to much. thought they said we just pee it out anyways. so this is not true. hmm I'm going to get a blood work up. thanks
Thanks Clemens, this was very helpful!
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vitamins are full of synthetics, some of them are banned in Europe. I just threw out $300 of vitamins
that's why regular creatinine checkup atleast every 6months is a must to check if the kidney is healthy. Also drink lot of water! A LOT!
I am a fully qualified Nutritionist and i've taken 6000 grams of vit C a day, 10,000 iu of D3 a day for over 10 years now. Health is perfect, immune to c0vid (many around me got it and I spend time in clinics and hospitals as well), immune to the flu (have never had it nor the flu shot), hormone levels are great and essentially the same as 20 years ago. Look feel and act young for my age, competitive in sports. Don't believe the Doctors and Hospitals who benefit from you being sick and have no nutritional knowledge worth a damn and who contradict clinical and hospital studies. Much of what's reported as fact in this video is unproven theory.
"Covid" is a scam son
@@abombgodisreal3435 To a large extent, yes。
@@Motorsportsinjapan can i use buffered itamin c or whitch source do you use ?
Creatine monohydrate makes me push pedals harder, but it makes me gain weight.
I have 20 years of experience and I know wut is good and wut is bad ✌️🦁
Vitamin C is fine, its gonna be pissed out, and taking too much in chewable form can cause enamel decay due to the incredibly increased acidity.
>200 mg a day any benefits will drop off, and increases risk of kidney stones.
@@catalyst3713 depends on the individual, I do gomad and take 2g of vitamin c daily, no kidney stones, some people are genetically more/less prone to kidney stones.
Nutrition is important. But not all supplements are made the same. Choose your food wisely =)
Anyway love this video. Very well explained!
Derek from Veritasium made a ducumentary called Vitamania. Worth watching
Lol I have anemia and if I don't take my iron and vitamin supplements I have a higher risk for heart failure so I'll keep taking them💕
“Certain vitamins at high doses causes cancer” 😮 me thinking about all the times I ate handfuls of Flintstones vitamins as a kid
Of course they lump synthetic and natural together although they are completely different in the human body.
thank god i never take a supplement,( cant afford it)...
All i hear is some people said this and some people said that, so what are you trying to say ? and do you have any scientific proof of what you said?
Disappointed that you didn't mention the folic acid vs folate.
The difference is the physiological pH of the vitamin. They are the same structure, but exist in different pH (specifically a hydrogen ion either bonded or not).
@@SaphemanPlus no no i'm talking about l5mth-folate vs folic acid.
Apparently the first one is much more easily absorbed and turned into the metabolically active form.
Folic acid is toxic in supplement form, always take methyl folate
I read that ascorbic acid is not vitamin c it the shell of it made from corn.
Me just anemic. Imma just eat a bag of nails
Great vid! That rap was amazing hahaha
Vitamin rap mixtape 2022?
This video made me take an omega-3 vitamin, saw palmetto, and a L-tyrosine tablet.
Come on man. You give 2 anecdotal examples. The problem with B.C was that he was eating a meat only diet. You don't even tell how much C he was taking on a daily basis. Same goes for C.M. Was he taking 200% or 900.000% the daily dosage of A and Ca? A is fat soluble, so always be careful with that.
Correct, a young boy does not need high doses of vita A as kids are not drinking, smoking and taking drugs yet and their intestines are in pristine condition creating all the vitamins they need. Unless of course they are on an insane vegetarian or vegan diet, which must only be used for up to 2 years if your seriously sick and need to detox.
@@chrystale888 Or an insane meat only diet. 😉
@@Guoy Correct, as this will kill your kidneys.
This is why I take my multivitamin/muiltimineral every other day. Sometimes 2 days in between. Well it's things like why the hell does there got to be vitamins added to a protein shake? Like do you really think a person using protein shakes doesn't already take their multivitamin/muiltimineral? Or watch their diet for that matter.
A bunch of his docs used to say you just had expensive urine😂🎉
Should be more inclusive ....not just vitamins can be dangerous..supplaments need to be watched too. Same with adaptagens and minerals
I mean you can overdose on vitamin A D E or K if you take too much (since these vitamins get stored)
but i think storing is not infinite
@@huseyinylmaz5217 yes but it still makes it easier to overdose on vitamin A D E and K than vitamin B and C
@@huseyinylmaz5217 that is the point of what the guy just said.
Vitamin A isn’t as bad to overdose as you think. You just need to take it in balance with D and K
@@nuclearcatbaby1131 you can't cure vitamin A overdose by taking more vitamin D and K
While on a carnivore diet...vitamin C is not needed as a supplement..human error
I take Methylcobalamin (b12) and 5-Methyltetrahydrofalate (b9).
What about magnesium?
1 glass of wine a day is beneficial to your health. My problem is I got a cabinet full of glasses! 😏
that's called alcoholism
I have been taking vitamins for some time now and made a lot of difference I try to hold kinda close to RDV to not to over due and try to take the natural vitamins like Vitamin C not the synthetic stuff cause its doesn't do of any good to the body and it may cause harm only natural in part of eating healthier as well.
What’s up with the channel name change?
Think I prefer dr eric berg
a little disappointed that regularly eating liver wasn't brought up as an alternative to vitamin supplementation.
Vitamin A toxicity if you eat them regularly.
@@Jeville42135 that seems like a very source-agnostic issue TBH. But yes, vitamin toxicity isn't covered enough either.
@@Jeville42135 not if you eat it once a week
probably because no one wants to eat liver
People's general idea of "eating it regularly" is more than once a week. It should be cautioned with that not being the case with liver.
Invest in a good multi,Just cycle your multi, 1 month and few week off and again, vitamin d can take in high dosages together and ZInc magnesium and iron because ZMA most of the time low in multi vitamin, and some natural herbs as ashwagandha and tongkat Ali
Like Lukas, I'm concerned about high doses of B vits mainly. But also, I'd like to hear what you think about herbs. I take lots!!!
Good for you , herbs are fantastic.
A low carbohydrate diet lowers your need for vitamin c, so the first case makes sense to me.
This information aren’t accurate, I been taking high doses of Vitamin D3 and Vitamin C .. and nothing happened to me!!
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@@PaulTheAlien bruh I’ve seen your videos
it's kinda crazy reading the comments from all these non-science/medical nootropic researchers duking it out over vitamins and supplements and use the odd bit of recent herbalife lit they've read as if it gives them some credibility. commenting about IU and bioavailability like they've read too much iHerb reddit support threads.
we need more experts talking, hopefully unbiased, and not more amateurs trying to talk the talk.
it just spreads the misinformation, which is sad.
This video is a not correct. You should take vitamin A as the precious as betakaroten. The form is not described. Yes Iron is bad in high dosage. B9 as folic acid is not preferred, folate is the form we can use direct. The form is missing. D3 needs to be taken with K2 to avoid calcification and magnesium to support the body becouse D3 activities 3000 different processes. This info is missing.
K2 and q10 lower risk for heart decrease according to studies. There is also 100+ studies that say that D3 decrease risk for cancer. Correct vitamins and plante based food without fast carbs, milk products, sugar low in heavy metals can do wonders to the body.
Eat vegetables and fruits you are good to go.
Very informative, I just came from the sleep video and plan to live well and long with this interesting new information
DANgers of water
As long as you replace with electrolytes
They are not bad but they are not magical pill either.
This video is an interesting perspective on vitamins though totally incomplete. The person is correct that one has to study this field better to gain a better understanding. However, there are a lot of things left out of this video that are VERY IMPORTANT. First, you have to start with what kind of vitamin E or D you are taking. Vitamin dL-tocopherol is derived from artificial substances and is not easily converted into the body. Can the body even use it? Then you have to compare it to d-tocoperol and alpha , beta , gamma forms. Vitamin D2 is not the right form. My Mother-in law was deficient in vitamin D so she took the wrong form and guess what.....she still had low blood levels of vitamin d. Second, yes there are studies to show that vitamins do help with cancer and other aliments. BUT DID YOU EVEN LOOK or just throw up your hands and say that is not true. I question the integrity of this individual whether or not he is being paid by big pharma or just is new to all this info. If you really want to know about vitamins check out information by Dr. Joe Wallach. It is b/c of his work that folate helps prevent birth defects such as Spina Bifida for example. And he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine but the FDA won't give it to him. In fact they sued him dozens of times and he won every time. Hmmmm.....Go figure.
It'll be way easier for your body to break down & absorb any vitamin or mineral naturally versus taking it in a pill, so improving your diet ultimately should help & will save you stomach issues from ingesting all this extra junk on a daily basis, that's my opinion
Did the drug companies pay you for this?
One wonders, right...?
Very confusing
obviously too much of everything is bad :D
As with many things health related the issues are complex. I would like your opinion on using vitamins intermittently and fasting to create hormetic nutrient stress. I use a strategy of intermittent fasting with nutritional supplementation only on workout days, mostly to enhance metabolic rate-limiting elements eg. Mg augmented with an expansive amount of natural polyphenols eg. mushrooms, fruits, veg. Additionally, I do prolonged fasts normally 5 days. Even though I have been doing this for years I am still working out the optimum refeeding protocol. I think a big part of the problem is to think we should need to find one-dimensional static system answers and not look at optimizing a dynamical system.
Hypnosis please
Can Hypnosis boost some brain function or correct some habit ?
I don’t know, but I do know that magnesium glycinate in the evening has made my mind feel far better put together.
Everytime i take vitamins i get sick.
trying to cover vitamin A-z in 12min?
And isnt they only used when they are absolutely needed (some sicknesses and all those jazz)
At least thats how they are supposed to be
What are your credentials?Where are you’re getting these infos!
I'm doing a PhD in biomedical sciences, relevant scientific publications are found in the description under "references"
Pocahontas!
Get your vitamins from a proper diet.
you do its just this video for people who over dose them and if your low on v c and d u take it but if u gotten 100% from apple probably no need to take them.There is a reason why they tell u 1-3 lol and you only need 1 a day from c and D. The other vitamins come from food and some smoothies.
great
Geeze, just realized I've been taking 4000UI of Vitamin D daily to prevent my headaches and to help focus when the recommend amount is only 600UI, and 2000mg of Vitamin C when you're supposed to only have 90mg a day, thou 200 is the upper limit a day.
But for me it prevents headaches and helps me focus and be awake as I'm deathly allergic to coffee (not caffeine), so I can't drink that to wake me up and energy drinks are even worse for your body
Most of the RDIs have been calculated in already metabolically sick populations and/or people with specific dietary & lifestyle habits. Most RDIs are probably observed averages in people that are not obviously sick, but being metabolically sick is not always obvious.
Maybe the RDIs are not accurate for everyone? Possibly some of the RDIs are incorrect for everyone.
I have been taking 5000 IU vitamin D3 (with a K2 supplement) for a few years. My serum levels are top of the suggested range, but not over. That assumes the suggested serum range is accurate.
Vitamin D stores in fat, so if you are losing weight, you might release more and may need to consume or make less. This storage in fat is also why vitamin D can become toxic in very high doses. Your 4000 IU is not even close to a high dose.
There is also the consideration that the RDI for vitamin D originally had a mistake in the calculation pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28768407/
It is now suggested that 5000 IU for an adult is absolutely fine, possibly it could be as high as 8000 IU. Get some good sun for even a relatively short time and you could generate a lot of vitamin D.
Then consider that many RDIs could be wrong. People on carnivore diets do not appear to need any other sources of vitamin C. The more carbs you eat, the more vitamin C you need to compete with those carbs. On a low carb or carnivore diet, meat contains enough vitamin C for what the body needs. As long as you don't overcook your meat.
tea, bro
I'm glad you are still alive with that amount of overdosage
Hytale huh?
According to studies, most people require 1000 to 2000 iu's of vitamin d everyday. And up to 4000 daily iu's is perfectly safe. Toxicity with vitamin d is above 50,000 iu's everyday. That's when you get calcium build up in the blood. The rda of vitamin d at 600 iu's continues to be controversial as far as I have been lead to believe; it's too low. I take 1000 iu's everyday. I find it protects the health of my respiratory systems every winter.
First :p
they also cured scurvy with meat.
All vitamins are not the same!!!
Watching this video reminded me to take my multivitamins it’s been months…
I always take fish oil omega 3. All I can say is that when I stop taking it, I can't remember my dreams.
Very bad idea, Omega 3’s are basicaly a heart poison when taken by themselves. Take unfortified unfermented cod liver oil instead and ALWAYS take it with vitamin E to protect your cells from the oxidation. This is exactly what the video is about, when we don’t know enough about what we are taking it will make us more harm than good.
@@dariusluknar4810 Can you link me a product like that please? unfortified and unfermented. But I think I take enough vitamine e with my diet
@@AlanAC22 Sure, I can't exactly link you but Rosita Cod Liver Oil is the best.
Ditch the fish, and start taking a high quality algae oil. All the benefits, with none of the contaminants and heavy metals. You could also increase the intake of ALA rich foods, like flaxseed, hempsed, chia seed, and walnuts.
B6 is good for remembering dreams
I was surprised that you didn't mention the crazy dosages of many vitamin supplements. I have seen pills that contain 13 times the recommended daily amount of one vitamin, five times for the next, 87% for another and some are just missing (still marketed as a daily supplement).
I still take vitamins due to my 12-15 hours/week of high physical activity and low sun exposure, but I try to stay at or below the recommended daily amount.
Like most things dealing with the body, it depends on the person. For instance, the daily recommended amount of Vitamin D is 600 IU for adults, but the safe upper limit before most start to see negative effects is listed as 4,000 IU per day.
If possible, it's best to have a blood test done to know exactly where you stand, but negative effects from most vitamins are only seen at very high dosages. For people, like me, with more melanin in their skin. Vitamin D is absorbed poorly from the sun so it's very hard to get the daily amount from sun exposure and near impossible in the winter months (then add in increased cancer chances that come with more sun). If I'm not getting enough vitamin D in my diet I'm going to need a larger dosage than someone with fair skin, who spends a lot of time in the sun, and eats lots of salmon.
@@kerstonhuston540 Those dosages are wrong, recent studies found out that recommended daily vitamin D dosage was wrong by a factor of 10. So maximum is 8000IU of vitamin D. Im taking years this dosage (8000 IU), vitamin D in my blood is perfect. I get my blood checked regularly.
This is scare mongering I have been taking 10 thousand mg one day and 5 thousand the next day and I not had a cold for 7 years. Blood tests fine and no issues what so ever.
Just because you see varying dosage, they may be using a form of the vitamin that is more or less bioavailable than usual
@@jordixboy thats hard to believe honestly i know you can take quite a bit more but 8000 units a day?
Seems like common sense that the right way we should be intaking vitamins is in the quantity they would appear in a natural serving of healthy food. If you would need to eat a dozen oranges in one sitting to get a dosage equal to a single vitamin C pill, that's probably more than your body can handle.
i wouldn't expect to see you here mate
Waaaaay too logical. Gotta jazz it up, MZ.
Im overdosing regulary with vitamin C when I am sick, never had any problems, kidneys work perfectly well. All Im doing, using nature that had this system for milions and milions of years on our body. Only part where I personally would get suspucious is who distributes my vitamin C supplement. Thanks for the video, I would agree eventually with this topic on vitamin D
I agree, I take high doses all the time!
You realize that's just survivor bias right? Someone else might have issues from a dose that causes someone else no problem. Genetics makes our organs quite different, it's unwise to take chances just from one or two examples.
@@Leonhart_93 smart said, well the guy that read about and listen to, has apperantly won nobel price in field of medicine, and he also said same thing as you, not every human absorbs vitamin C at the same rate but the differences are small.
@@baconisgood4me746 Well there is this other thing that it's hard to get into in the youtube comments section since it's so hard to explain, but basically the commercial version of vitamin C is substantially different from the naturally occurring one, which is why I have my doubts that it does all that much.
So the commercial one is just Ascorbic Acid and nothing else, while in nature vitamin C is a complex, with Ascorbic Acid as the anti-oxidant exterior layer, and on the inside it has all kinds of things like copper, p, j and k factors.
The problem with the mass produced one is that it's similar enough and it might get absorbed instead of the natural one you get from food. But as I said it's a long discussion.
This is just ignorant
Vitamin C toxic? Too much gives you the shits. That guy didnt drink enough water.
Ok, but there's a difference between taking 5000IU of vitamin D daily, like many people do, and taking the recommended amount of 800IU. Besides, getting B vitamins and heme iron from your diet is hard when you're vegan.
I feel that there is a big difference between synthetic vitamins and the naturally occurring ones,I stay away from "Fortified" foods and use foods with natural vitamins like Pine pollen, molasses, nutritional yeast, Fish oil ,Sourkraut (vit c)liver, and all these vitamin,s need balancing with adequate mineral intake, use natural one,s again .eg horsetail tea, shilajit,seaweed.
Im taking 8000IU of vitamin D daily. Take regular blood analytics, vitamin D is always perfect. Recent studies found out that the recommended vitamin D dosage is wrong by a factor of 10.
10000IU nearly every day too, the recommendations for Vitamin D are way too low.
For those interested that reads this comment, the study is called "The big vitamin D mistake"
It depends on geographical location, sun exposure, time of year, and melanin. But yes, it seems current guideline recommendations are too low. From my findings, 2000-3000 IU daily is ideal for most people.
also vitamins and minerals are synergistic or antagonistic, and influence each other. Many times the balance between nutrients are just as important, so taking a supplement (that is not in it's natural whole food form as a package with other vitamins) can throw off the balance. Like D3 and K2 go together and zinc and copper should be balanced, omega 3 and omega 6 etc. Also ascorbic acid is just one part of the vit c compound.
He never mentioned the risks/benefits of the most popular daily multivitamins.
as someone who had had digestive issues his whole life, my viatmins are what help me greatly, i am a 76 year old male and people always tell me i dont look my age and the one
thing i have found is that if you use crap cheap vitamins you are wasting your time but they can act as a placebo for you and make you thing they are working. diet also has to be
reasonable also and i find cutting out sugary stuff like donuts, cakes etc makes a big difference also. ; if vitamins did not work then there would be no effort to squash them by
the pharmaceutical industry that only deceives people who want a quick fix rather than change a life style,
Big pharma is giving you a high five right now
LINUS PAULING, lived on very high doses of C. And lived into his 90s. Also won 2 noble prizes for his work on . Vit C
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