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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It’s not necessarily harmful. While it’s true that some vitamins can be very toxic, most are tolerated pretty well at high amounts. Particularly, the water soluble ones are removed from your body VERY rapidly if there’s too much.

Throwing large amounts of vitamins unnecessarily makes the pills sell better. People think that vitamins are good, so more vitamins must be better. They buy the pills with the biggest numbers.