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Vitamins: Do I take them... or not?
I am 19/f and I attend a medical college. As long as I've been in school, all my teachers have told us it is important to take a multi-vitamin everyday, especially of you don't get a lot of it in your diet. As I was in the store the other day trying to find a multi-vitamin the lady from the little clinic came over and asked if I needed help finding one. She said I shouldn't take ANY vitamins becaus if you don't think your deficient in anything, you could be over vitaminizing yourself. Which is bad. She also told me if I do start taking them, if I don't feel better in a week or so to stop taking them because my bones are still growing. So I am confused on if I should be taking vitamins or not. All it is is a multi vitamin. Are they fine to take? Or should I restrain? Thank you !
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A. This lady is a dumb ass idiot and does not know what she is talking about. it is very good for your body to take a multi-vitamin. the only way you can over does your vitamines is if you take alot of them at once. I take a multi vitamin, c, 2 d tablets a day. it is very healthy for your body. especially because your body is growing.
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None of us are doctors so we cannot make any factual recommendations on this. That being said I do not see any harm in taking one multi-vitamin a day. There was a time doctors did not believe in vitamin supplements. That was back in the dark ages when everyone sat down together for 3 meals that mom prepared.
Today we all seem to go are separate ways at meal time and may not be getting the proper nutrition and vitamins from the foods we eat. As my sons pediatrician many years ago once told us; what ever his body doesn't need will come out in his urine so we should not be concerned about giving him vitamins.
He is now not quite twice your age, a firefighter, a physically demanding job. Besides his exercise program he takes a multi-vitamin daily because as a firefighter when he is on duty there are times when meals are skipped because of call volumes.
In short I agree with Rashi, the lady in the vitamin shop probably should not be advising people on vitamins as I feel she is not knowledgeable about the product. If you have any concerns I would ask one of your instructors as being in a medical college they should be able to advise you.
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You can take a basic multivitamin without any concern of over dosing or worrying about your bones (I'm not even sure why she said that... it makes no sense to me... Most women your age don't get enough calcium, iron or vitamin C in their diets, so a multivitamin should be great for your bones...)
Your teachers (the medical professionals I suspect) are right. The lady selling over the counter pills is wrong (was she even a pharmacist?).
It's very difficult to overdose on multivitamins. It's more possible if you are taking megadoses like vitamin C tablets or Iron supplements in addition to your multivitamin, but even still, it's exceedingly unlikely if you follow the recommended doses.
So take the dose that is recommended by bottle. It'll be well within a safe margin to avoid over dosing. If you make a habit of eating special protein bars or shakes, then you might want to talk to your doctor to make sure you are not at any risk of over doing any of those nutrients - but odds are that you aren't.
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