Sun, Dec-15-02, 02:46
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Plan: Atkins/Protein Power
Stats: 256/179/160
BF:38.9/27.2/24.3
Progress: 80%
Location: Triangle NC
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Any amount OVER what your body needs will simply be flushed out of your body.
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Vitamin E is a fat-soluble vitamin and will be retained and can become toxic.
From Merck Manual ( http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/s...chapter3/3g.htm):
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Adults have taken relatively large amounts of vitamin E (400 to 800 mg/day of d--tocopherol) for months to years without any apparent harm. Occasionally, muscle weakness, fatigue, nausea, and diarrhea have occurred in persons taking 800 to 3200 mg/day. The most significant toxic effect of vitamin E at > 1000 mg/day is antagonism to vitamin K action and enhancement of the effect of oral coumarin anticoagulants, which may result in overt hemorrhage .
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From Body and fitness (bodyhttp://www.bodyandfitness.com/Information/Health/Research/vitamins.htm#fat-soluble):
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The fat-soluble vitamins include vitamins A, D, E and K.
Because they are soluble in fat (lipids), these vitamins tend to because stored in the body's fat tissues, fat deposits, and liver. This storage capability makes the fat-soluble vitamins potentially toxins. Care should be exercised when taking the fat-soluble vitamins. The fat-soluble vitamins, especially vitamin A, should be consumed with care because of their storage capabilities. They have the potential of building up to harmful levels. Even though very few cases of vitamin toxicity have been reported, concern has grown during recent years as the practice of taking megadoses has become popular. If you consume large does of the fat-soluble vitamins and are concern of toxicity (specially if you taking large does of medcations or other items that are toxic to the liver), you may want to do what I do, 5 days on 2 days off.
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Some are more dangerous than others. But any of the fat-soluble vitamins should be taken with caution. Water soluble are the ones you can take as much as you want of. Those are excreted in urine and pretty much flush out if there's too much taken in.
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