Multivitamin dosage concerns

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Hi.

I'm thinking of using Life Extention Mix Caps for my husband as a multivitamin

rather

than downing so many pills. It's more affordable and easier. After reading the

label, it

appears that he should take 4 capsules a day (spread apart) to get the

Magnesium and Vit.

B needs met, plus adding extra Molybdenum and Inositol (as well as EFAs, of

course) to

meet the dosage needs for those.

Here's my question. Taking 4 capsules per day will be fine with things like

Vitamin E. But it

will give him 140 mg of Zinc (his per-pound dosage is 100mg per day), and 800

mcg of

Selenium (his per-pound dosage is 330 mcg per day). Would it be bad for him to

have

40mcg of extra Zinc per day, and, particularly, 470 mcg of extra Selenium per

day? This

would be unavoidable if he took this particular multivitamin. It has no copper.

Taking this multivitamin (or some other one) will probably make the difference

in

compliance or non-compliance with him, since he has such a busy life and such a

very

sensetive stomach. (Plus, I like that we'd only need to buy a new bottle every 4

months

since it has 490 caps).

Please let me know whether the Zinc or Selenium or any other minerals ought to

be

limited closer to his per-pound dosage, and not much over. Would it be harmful

to go that

much over, or not?

Thanks