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I had elevated liver enzymes (i.e. signs of liver damage) for two annual physicals in a row. My doctor tested me for all the usual culprits including all types
by 300bps 12y ago
I had elevated liver enzymes (i.e. signs of liver damage) for two annual physicals in a row. My doctor tested me for all the usual culprits including all types of hepatitis and everything came back negative.
She then asked me if I took a daily multivitamin. I told her I did and she told me to stop taking it. That was 12 years ago and I have not had elevated liver enzymes since. According to my doctor, people that get enough vitamins and minerals through their diet can actually overdose on the sledgehammer of vitamins in a typical Centrum-style multivitamin. This can then cause liver damage which shows up in an ALT/AST blood test.
I think it's prudent to only take vitamins for which you know you are deficient either because of dietary restrictions or through actual testing. For example, my vitamin d level gets low in the winter time so I take vitamin d3 for that.
- daemonfire300 12y agoThe damage does not just come from taking too much, it also comes from consuming "synthesized" Vitamins. Many ingredients aren't close to the quality of vitamins in natural food.
- yid 12y agoThis sounds like an excellent use case for blood-level monitoring for personalized medicine (or in this case, vitamins). I'm not sure how viable the hardware aspect is, but there are sure a lot of things you could do in software with a real-time stream of that data.