Why Can’t I Eat All the Chewable Vitamins?
If you are like me, you are 25 years old and afraid of horses. You also eat gummy vitamins instead of regular vitamins. The main problem with chewable vitamins is that they taste exactly like candy, but you are only ever allowed two a day. The reason behind this is that there are some fat soluble vitamins and minerals in these multivitamins.
Something like Vitamin C is water soluble, which means you could have 1000% of your daily recommended dose for Vitamin C and it wouldn’t matter, your body would use what it needed, the rest would dissolve in your bloodstream, and you’d just urinate out the 900% of your daily recommended dose that was left over. Technically, your urine could even be used to treat scurvy in this situation!
On the other hand, Fat soluble vitamins, like vitamins A, E, and K, are a bit different. They can’t dissolve in your blood, so they get stored in tissues if you take more than you actually need. Over time, these vitamins can build up and act as toxins in your body, even causing extreme damage to organs like your brain and liver!
Symptoms of regular vitamin overdose can range from dry cracking lips and headaches to hair loss, appetite loss, and irregular/rapid heartbeat. So my advice here can be summed up in the old adage popularized by Ice-Cube:
check yo (candy-like vitamin consumption) before your wreck yo (self)
