am I taking too many vitamins?

I’m a very healthy person that likes to stay active, but I’m just a little cautious that I’m over-doing it on the vitamins. I eat plenty of fruit and vegetables throughout the day but I take Nature Made Multi for her softgel, Nature Made super B-Complex vitamin, Spring Valley vitamin C 500mg, and Spring Valley Omega 3 Fish Oil 1000mg..I also drink a protein shake from whey protein after working out. Is this too much? In what order should I take them, all 4 in the morning? or seperate them up..I’ve been taking the super B-complex and multi in the morning with my breakfast, and the C Vitamin and fish oil with supper..any help is appreciated, thanks!!
some side notes, I’m 5’5 – 22 year old female, I drink plenty of water throughout the day and I’m a vegetarian..

Yes, you are.

Vitamins (and minerals) are not candies or good for you because they sound good and can be beneficial. A little too much of a good thing can become a bad thing. They can give you annoying headaches, heartburn, diarrhea, joint pain, skin rash, irritability, fatigue, water retention, hair loss and really more than annoying kidney stone, liver damage, congestive heart failure…and this is nothing compared to what they can do when combined with drugs and medicines. ALWAYS have the complete list of all the vitamin supplements (and meds and drugs) you take ON YOU AT ALL TIME, so if you get into an accident and end up in the hospital, they will know what medicine NOT to give you so some vitamin does not interfere with it in a way that you can see your story later on the TV show House, MD!

Even just having a regular check up with your doctor, or because you’re sick and they will want to know exactly which vitamins you take and also exactly which dosage and when…as to not prescribe you the wrong medicine. You’ll have to fill out a form and don’t forget to list any vitamins you take or you won’t be able to sue them if you get a back reaction from some drugs they gave you, because you did not list that particular vitamin you took.

You have a lot of huge, big hundreds of pages books, devoted to vitamins, herbs and drugs interaction, maybe buy one of those (I put one in the source, but look around).

Every years, kids die because they overdosed on vitamin supplements that they found in the kitchen or in their baby sitter’s purse and they thought were candies (some are sugary coated and taste good). I have a calcium supplement that is pink, sweet and taste like a hard nice candy than last for a long time, yummy.

But what are the toxicity symptoms of iron? Death!

Some clueless parents have no idea that vitamins should be treated like meds and locked away in a child proof place, inaccessible to kids and unless you want to search your baby sitter’s bag for meds, vitamins or drugs, that could kill your toddler, you should ask for the bag to be stored on a very high shelf.

I do have a pillbox (with pain killers in it) in my bag and I babysit my neighbors’ kids…I never take my bag over there, just my cell and my house key and maybe my laptop.

Also, vitamins interfere with drugs but they interfere with each others as well. If you have a good diet, you don’t need extra vitamin C, especially if you’re a vegetarian and eat citrus fruits, berries, tomatoes, potatoes, broccoli, green pepper and other green and yellow veggies. Large dose of vitamin C will interfere with the absorption of B12 (I’m hoping that you’re a lacto-ovo vegetarian so you still eat eggs and drink milk).

You cannot just take tons of vitamins and think…”well, what I don’t need, I’ll just pee”. Of course, you’ll have a very expensive pee because your body can only absorb 10 to 15% of vitamins pills since vitamins are meant to be absorbed along with the food they’re supposed to be in (tell that to the parents of the dead kid who overdosed on vitamins). So I you spent $10 on vitamins, you’ll pee $8.50, which is better than overdosing or getting a headache.

Vitamins are part of a whole system working together since hundreds of thousands of years of human evolution. You cannot single them out. It’s like knowing that you need a tablespoon of olive oil every day (2 tbsp for men) and you would just drink a whole cup every 2 weeks…does not work that way, yucky…

Even if you don’t eat fish, you can get enough Omega 3, with nuts, oil seeds, eggs…Flaxseed oil will have 6 times more Omega 3 than fish oil.

I’m not a vegetarian so I eat fish but I tried the Omega 3 pills (on those days when I don’t eat fish) and I could not digest them. After a few hours of fishy smell/taste burping, without even having eaten fish…I gave up and I’m fine with occasionally enjoying my steamed salmon and broccoli/carrots, my little sardines on buttery toasts, my shrimps with three-color spiral pasta (same colors as the veggies) and veggies (broccoli, red pepper, cauliflower, onion, carrot), my homemade tuna sandwich, mussels cooked in white wine with shallots. I don’t burp when I eat fish and shellfish, just when I pop some Omega 3 pill that I’m not supposed to pop.

I’m 5’5 too. Unless you’re into bodybuilding, you do not need protein shakes. Protein shakes are for guys building a lot of muscle mass. You just need a couple of egg whites if you’re building muscle mass, if you still eat eggs. Otherwise, you’ll get enough proteins from combining lentils and rice, or beans and corns, for example.

Edit:
Just take a multivitamin geared for women in your age group and you’ll be fine…those cannot hurt you much. Your body will discard what you don’t need or can’t absorb.

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