Vitamin B6 & C
I read today in the book "Nutrition for Dummies" that taking continued use of 50mg of B6 or more a day may damage nerves in arms, legs, hands, and feet. Some experts say the damage is likely to be temporary; others say that it may be permanent. So iv decided to stop taking my GNC Mega Men Sport Multivitamin everyday and take it ever other day, Simply because it gives me 50mg of Vit B6. B6 is also in Breads, cereals, grains, like oatmeal/instant/fortified. Fruits like banana/raw. Prunes/dried/cooked. Vegetables Plantain/boiled. Meat,poultry,fish Chicken/roasted/no skin. Lamb(lean only). Liver(beef). If im eating this stuff then theres no need for me to add to the 50mg of b6 everyday. Ill go for every other day.
Im cutting out the 1,000mg of vit C i take everyday and sticking with the 300mg i get out of the multivitamin. Large amounts of vitamin C cause kidney stones in some people or can upset your stomach. And if you take megadoses for awhile and then quit, you can end up with rebound scurvy, a temporary deficiency.
Here’s what happens: Your body normally produces an enzyme that breaks down vitamin C so that you can eliminate any excess through urinating. When you take larger and larger doses of vitamin C, your body makes more and more of this enzyme. If you suddenly cut back on your vitamin C, your body continues to produce extra enzymes for a while so that you continue to urinate away lots of vitamin C, maybe more than you take in. This reaction, which ends as soon as enzyme production drops back to normal, can cause deficiency in newborns whose mothers took very large doses of vitamin C while pregnant. The kids are born requiring higher than normal doses for a while. Eventually, they too slip back to normal.
Although im not pregnant and never plan to be since im a man, im still going to stop taking the 1,300 mg everyday and stick with 300mg every other day from the multivitamin. If anyone actually reads this let me know what you think, if im over reacting or what. Im just learning this stuff so i really dont know if im mixing the wrong stuff sometimes.
Mainly im scared of the B6 i was getting 50mg from multivitamin, 25mg from N.o.xplode
