Can steady vitamin usage be bad for you?

[Badbark]

A friend of mine tells me that taking vitamins every day is
bad for you. He says that they should be cycled, with 30 days
on 30 days off. Does anyone know if this is true? I don't eat
much veg but have been taking a multi-vitamin (Centrum) for
years thinking that I was doing myself good rather than harm!
Any advice would be welcome.

Badbark

[Martin Ban]

>A friend of mine tells me that taking vitamins every day is
>bad for you. He says that they should be cycled, with 30 days
>on 30 days off. Does anyone know if this is true? I don't eat
>much veg but have been taking a multi-vitamin (Centrum) for
>years thinking that I was doing myself good rather than harm!

Vitamins and minerals come in with food. Do you have to cycle
food? 30 days with food coming in and 30 days with no food
coming in?

With a multi like Centrum, all you are doing is making sure
that decent amounts of vitamins and minerals come in each day
regardless of how deficienct your meals are in terms of a
specific vitamin or mineral.

For the very high dose multi's, you really don't need to take
them every day but if that's the way you want to take them,
no harm, no foul (assuming that they do not provide
potentially toxic amounts of a vitamin or a mineral in the
suggested daily dose).

If you are taking something that the body already synthesizes,
cycling may be useful if you are trying to use a high dose
supplement. Marty B "You are what you eat"

[Tintinet]

badbark@hotmail.com (Badbark) wrote in message
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> A friend of mine tells me that taking vitamins every day is
> bad for you. He says that they should be cycled, with 30
> days on 30 days off. Does anyone know if this is true? I
> don't eat much veg but have been taking a multi-vitamin
> (Centrum) for years thinking that I was doing myself good
> rather than harm! Any advice would be welcome.
>
> Badbark

If you are male, you probably ought to consider giving blood
to reduce your iron burden after taking all that supplimental
iron in Centrum.

[Dave B]

Badbark wrote:

> A friend of mine tells me that taking vitamins every day is
> bad for you. He says that they should be cycled, with 30
> days on 30 days off. Does anyone know if this is true? I
> don't eat much veg but have been taking a multi-vitamin
> (Centrum) for years thinking that I was doing myself good
> rather than harm! Any advice would be welcome.
>
> Badbark

For someone taking Centrum I might be inclined to agree, do
to the iron. Same reason to avoid Total cereal. Try Centrum
Silver instead. Or a multi that is actually well designed and
not just marketing hype. One with more vitamin e and
selenium, perhaps.

[John 'The]

Snobs be gone!

Once upon a time, our fellow Badbark rambled on about "Can
steady vitamin usage be bad for you?." Our champion being
bored in sci.med.nutrition retorts, thusly ...

>A friend of mine tells me that taking vitamins every day is
>bad for you. He says that they should be cycled, with 30 days
>on 30 days off.

That advice is generally applied to Herbs ONLY.

I am not saying that the advice is correct. It is simply how
some people take herbal supplements.
--
John Gohde, Achieving good Nutrition is an Art, NOT a Science!

My hidden agenda is to improve my personal health. Beware of
anybody who brags about eating a lousy diet or smoking.
www.Food.NaturalHealthPerspective.com/ Presenting great rules
of thumb to eat by!

[Gentolm]

i read in, i think "Optimum Sports Performance' that between
1980-1990 in the statistics (where ever they are kept) that
only 1 person died from over does of vitamins . Someone was
taking an amount of niacin that was in the hyper-mega range
,,,, i would be more detailed but gave my copy to a
freind=(( plodzilla

Badbark wrote:
>
> A friend of mine tells me that taking vitamins every day is
> bad for you. He says that they should be cycled, with 30
> days on 30 days off. Does anyone know if this is true? I
> don't eat much veg but have been taking a multi-vitamin
> (Centrum) for years thinking that I was doing myself good
> rather than harm! Any advice would be welcome.
>
> Badbark