Re:Pre-Conception Vitamin Amount Recommendations?

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Penciloid

Have you considered Food-based multivitamins compared to the regular ones?

In the case of pantothenic acid, remember it is a B vitamin, and Vit B & C are

water soluble. Excess intake of pantothenic acid or any other Water -soluble

Vits, are excreted and not stored in the body, perhaps on a daily basis. So you

may have got 10000% one day, and the body took 100%, and the next day, you did

not take any, and the body is starving for it.

But, the Fat Solubles are different story(Vit A,D,E). Too much can be

dangerous. That is why there is a controversy of having too much Vit D from CLO

etc. It probably will be severe damage or fatal if someone megadosed on Fat

vitamins.

Regards

Vijay

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[Guest guest]

> Have you considered Food-based multivitamins compared to the regular

ones?

I would prefer a food based multi. Any recommendations? Several at the

store claimed to be gluten-free, despite listing wheat grass or oats.

I'm leary of taking them. Is it only the mature wheat grain that has

gluten?

made a good point about 4 grams of vitamin C being way more than

I could ever get from food. I struggle with figuring out what the

truth is, since there seem to be two perspectives: 1. Eat well and you

won't need vitamins. 2. The RDAs are too low and with poor soil

quality, etc, you'll never get enough from food only.

Klennar reported that women taking large amounts of vitamin C had

fewer miscarriages, fewer birth defects, almost no stretch marks, and

much more content babies. This make the idea appealing. However, like

said, that amount of vitamin C couldn't be necessary from a

design (or evolutionary, although I don't believe in it) standpoint.

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--- Masterjohn <chrismasterjohn@...> wrote:

> If the RDA for vitamin C was based on what is necessary to prevent

> scurvy, for example, it would be 10 mg/day rather than 90 mg/day for

> men and 75 mg/day for women. The current RDA is not really based on

> health outcomes, but rather on maximizing blood neutrophil

> concentrations and minimizing urinary excretion.

and from what I have been reading, the optimal levels of

vitamins C and E may very well depend on your diet. If the diet is

high in PUFA and refined flour and sugar, you may need a lot more C

and E than if your diet is low in PUFA and starch/sugar. I thought

someone wrote here recently that sailors only got scurvy when their

diet included lots of flour, though I haven't confirmed this possibility.