If you down soda all day and can’t get out of the couch, it’s not vitamin problems you should worry about.
Lack of movement or energy is a classic vitamin deficiency sign, particularly anemia / iron / b12 /b vitamins / copper / iodine. If you cant get off the couch, you definitely need to try vitamins, and likely have an imbalance of vitamins you intake vs what you need.
Iron deficiency, or when the body’s iron stores are too low, is common, and may affect up to 40% of adolescents and young women
According to a previous report, up to 70% of cases go undiagnosed in high-risk populations
You can only really intake too much of fat soluble retinol-based vitamin A, about 10k IU daily, which can cause not only liver damage but skin to slough off at higher levels (1mil IU).
Vitamin K has never been found to have an upper limit, and vitamin E has a classic upper dosage of 1000IU but some dosages are as high as 4000IU per day. Likewise vitamin D has postulated upper limits but some get injections of 300k IU. Vitamin D can cause odd issues with calcium, and ofc calcium levels being off can cause odd issues with potassium and magnesium levels and so on. Supplementing therefore should be done thoughtfully and with the patient’s health as a whole in mind.
You can’t continuously get blood checks on all of your levels.
It’s OK to supplement if you want. Just watch out for retinol and B6. And don’t take stuff like Ashwaganda etc, take actual vitamins and minerals first
You’re on a whole othef league here.
If you down soda all day and can’t get out of the couch, it’s not vitamin problems you should worry about.
Also, don’t just eat vitamins if you don’t actually have a real deficiency. You can intake too much of some like the fat soluble ones.
Also 90%+ of westeners lack vitamin D (because we’re not out getting skin cancer in the sun 10h a day).
But yeah, eat a well balanced diet and keep checks on your physical health is key to good health.
I’m telling you, you’re simplifying something inappropriately.
Lack of movement or energy is a classic vitamin deficiency sign, particularly anemia / iron / b12 /b vitamins / copper / iodine. If you cant get off the couch, you definitely need to try vitamins, and likely have an imbalance of vitamins you intake vs what you need.
https://www.hematology.org/newsroom/press-releases/2024/over-half-of-iron-deficiency-cases-in-large-health-system-still-unresolved-at-three-years
You can only really intake too much of fat soluble retinol-based vitamin A, about 10k IU daily, which can cause not only liver damage but skin to slough off at higher levels (1mil IU).
https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/disappearing-pod/death-by-nutrition/
Vitamin K has never been found to have an upper limit, and vitamin E has a classic upper dosage of 1000IU but some dosages are as high as 4000IU per day. Likewise vitamin D has postulated upper limits but some get injections of 300k IU. Vitamin D can cause odd issues with calcium, and ofc calcium levels being off can cause odd issues with potassium and magnesium levels and so on. Supplementing therefore should be done thoughtfully and with the patient’s health as a whole in mind.
You can’t continuously get blood checks on all of your levels.
It’s OK to supplement if you want. Just watch out for retinol and B6. And don’t take stuff like Ashwaganda etc, take actual vitamins and minerals first