Why are some vitamins sometimes listed as 1500% of your RDI? and wouldn’t that be damaging to your body?

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Why are some vitamins sometimes listed as 1500% of your RDI? and wouldn’t that be damaging to your body?

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Answer 1

There is a difference between water and fat- soluble vitamins.
You can overdose on fat soluble vitamins like A, D, E, and K as your body will store it all. Excess water soluble vitamins like Vit C or B will simply be peed out.

That’s why it is often said that multi-vitamins are only good if you want to have some nice colored pee (assuming you eat healthy and you are healthy).

Here is a recent article of someone who overdosed on Vit D and had to go to the hospital;
https://gizmodo.com/vitamin-d-overdose-man-hospitalized-1849144300