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Vitamin overdoses can be serious in the worst cases. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervitaminosis_A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervitaminosis_A https:/
by MaxBarraclough 6y ago
Vitamin overdoses can be serious in the worst cases.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervitaminosis_A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervitaminosis_A
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervitaminosis_D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervitaminosis_D
- jonplackett 6y agoNo one is suggesting an overdose though. In the amount in the study it is harmless.
- 0-_-0 6y agoThe study is not suggesting the administration of toxic amounts of vitamin D
- krageon 6y agoWhile toxic amounts of basically anything are bad, introducing random facts that have no bearing on what is discussed can mislead some readers into thinking you're making a point related to the topic at hand. While it may be unintentional, this is misleading and therefore not helpful.
- MaxBarraclough 6y agoLook at the context. I was responding to the implication that taking 3 vitamins is categorically safe. It is not.
- swader999 6y agoIn any normal sense it is safe.
- jerf 6y agoIf your definition of "safe" is so strict that it declares that's not safe, that's fine and your decision, but it's not a definition you can live by. You're not actually holding your actions in your life to that standard, because you can't be. It's fundamentally broken to do risk analysis without considering the possible benefits as well. Otherwise you end up with the answer to literally everything being "It could be harmful", with no countervailing possibilities, and your heuristic says "no" to everything, including doing nothing. You can't live that way.
- Darmody 6y agoWater overdoses can be serious in the worst cases, even fatal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperhidrosis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperhidrosis
- SuoDuanDao 6y agoI've heard one of the only things that are safe in any amount is alcohol-free beer. Which leads to some funny images of our medical studies if that was the standard we held.
- Darmody 6y agoI doubt it. Beer is mostly water and your body can literally collapse from to much of it. I made a quick search and I didn't find anything that proves what you're saying.
- SuoDuanDao 6y agoYeah, it was a word-of-mouth thing which I didn't care to follow up on. Given that beer has electrolytes and too much water kills by displacing electrolytes, it does seem reasonable to expect you could drink more alcohol-free beer than water though.