Why are some vitamins sometimes listed as 1500% of your RDI? and wouldn’t that be damaging to your body?
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Fat-soluble vitamins, like vitamin E, are dangerous in large amounts because your body will store them. If you get too much of these, you can get sick.
Some vitamins are water soluble, so your body can just throw whatever it doesn’t need into your pee, and you pee it out. Vitamin C is a good example of this! You can have as much vitamin C as you like and it won’t be a problem, you’ll just pee it out.
So if something has more than your recommended daily intake of a vitamin, it’s probably a water soluble vitamin and won’t be a problem at all.
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