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Toxicity

Vitamins are non toxic. The number of people who have died from using vitamins is almost zero, but they do have non toxic side effects which are not life threatening and must be known by any one taking them. When there are undesirable effects from any vitamin tablets it may be an allergic or other such reaction to any of the fillers with which these products are made.

Dr. John N. Hathcock1, Council for Responsible Nutrition, Washington DC, and thirteen colleagues examined the world wide literature on the issue of the safety of vitamin C and E. They agreed with “the consensus of published studies that vitamin E doses up to 1000mg/day and vitamin C doses up to 2000 mg/day are safe for use by the general population.” These are the upper safe limits. But the literature on these two antioxidant vitamins described only these doses ranges. There are few published studies using the much large doses that orthomolecular therapists recommend. Many have appeared in the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine but Medline has refused to list this journal since its inception thirty-three years ago. In my opinion, these vitamins are safe even at much higher doses. This is an extremely important report because it expands the safety range of these two vitamins and destroys the factoids that are so widely held.

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1 Hathcock JN, Azzi A, Blumberg J, Bray T, Dickenson A, Frei B, Jialai I, Johnston CS, Kelly FJ, Kraemer,K, Packer L, Parthasarathy S, Sies H and Traber MG. Vitamins E and C Are Safe Across a Broad Range of Intakes. Amer J Clin Nutrition 2005;81:736-745.

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