oh, definitely.......... the studies were done on larger doses of one
item ......

Like every other medicine, vitamins will have side-effects for some
people. An overdose is likely to be harmful, and some vitamins are very
toxic in doses not much larger than the therapeutic dose.

There's also a possibility that vitamins may have harmful effects even
in the dosages that are necessary for health. There's no reason why a
medicine can't have harmful effects on one part of the metabolism while
having beneficial effects on a different part. We are now getting so
good at detecting very rare side-effects. If Herr Bayer proposed using
his new-fangled preparation "Aspirin" a a pain-killer it would probably
not pass current safety tests. To put that into perspective, Aspirin had
been in widespread use for a century before it was linked with Reyes
Syndrome.

Mega dose tabs certainly look damn dangerous - but I think there's
enough evidence to say that synthetic versions of common vits may
cause more harm than good. Vit A springs to mind, where the natural
form is all right-handed (I think, might be a leftie!) whereas the
synthetic stuff is a mix. The wrong sort actually blocks takeup of the
right sort.

Personally, I'd rather concentrate on a balanced diet. I take
glucosamine and fish oil, and that's me lot. I am contemplating a vit
D supplement for next winter, though - but the mechanism of that is
different; you take d3 and it's changed to the active form in the
liver and kidneys.

Nicky.
T2 dx 05/04 + underactive thyroid
D&E, 100ug thyroxine
Last A1c 5.6%  BMI 25