What happens when your vitamin-c intake is too high?!
Question: I've had more than 600% of my daily value of vitamin-c in the past two days from drinking vitamin water **its soo good** but then I realized that this was a little too much. I checked the daily values and I realized that my vitamin-s intake was skyrocketing.
Answers: I've had more than 600% of my daily value of vitamin-c in the past two days from drinking vitamin water **its soo good** but then I realized that this was a little too much. I checked the daily values and I realized that my vitamin-s intake was skyrocketing.
The Vitamin C Foundation actually recommends that you should take 3 gm of vitamin C every day which is a lot more than what most health experts would recommend. 100 mg a day is enough in most cases or even as little as 30 or 50 mg a day but at least 100 mg every day is much better. 1 or 2 gm a day is quite OK and perhaps even 3 gm a day. It is generally recommended that you should never take more than 1 gm or 1,000 mg in a single dose.
Your body eliminates whatever vitamin C it doesn't need every day as it is water soluble and the excess is passed out naturally.
Too much vitamin C (say more than 3 gm or 3,000 mg a day) could cause kidney stones and besides this vitamin C is also a diuretic.
A high vitamin C intake also means that your body absorbs more iron.
You pee it out.
You can't overdose on vitamins.
Vitamin C is non-toxic! B vitamins as well!
RDA is not nearly enough!
You are fine! Don't worry!
Vitamin A & E can be toxic in very high doses!
Much above RDA!