Re: Excess vitamin A or D?

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CJ,

Here's what can happen when one overdoses vitamin A:

* joint aches

* headache

* dry skin

* flaky skin

I have experienced one or several of these problems after eating

liver, dairy and even eggs, and not listening to my stop signal.

I'm very skeptical of the consumtion of CLO. How does one know

when enough is enough? CLO tastes awful. In my opinion there are

plenty of tasty whole food vitamin A sources; and for vitamin D

one can eat fatty fish and/or expose oneself for the sun.

Fredrik

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[Guest guest]

> ...and eating alot of fatty fish has it's disadvantages with all the mercury

> present in the world, and also many folks would probably rush right out and

> buy ANY fish....probably " farm- raised " ...so the fatty acid profile wouldn't

> be any good, ...among other issues....

I'm not a big fan of fish, even without the mercury

> ...and it all depends on where you live.....I understand that most of the

> central United States does not get intense enought sun for 9 mos. of the

> year....and most people really don't spend enough time in the sun everyday

> anyway....and most, when they do, use " sunblocks " ...so it probably isn't that

easy

> to get vit D those ways....

Okay, well, I live in England. So no questions I don't enough sun - we can go

for weeks without seeing the sun, and that's just June.

But, thinking back, the difference between how I feel now and how I felt a

month ago is amazing. I remember distinctly because we've been traveling

and it's easy to recall how I felt a specific times when it's attached to the

memory of such an event. We went to Prague in August and I could hardly

walk. My legs - it was like fire - ached even when I wasn't standing up - to

the

point I couldn't sleep. Last week we were in Scotland and I had no trouble at

all walking all over town and even climbing a bit (the obligatory Arthur's Seat

jaunt)

The more I think about it, the more I suspect that that it was the CLO - nothing

else has changed exept that I can move again!

Thanks for the insight both of you.

CJ

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CJ <crackrjack13@y...> wrote:

> I'm not a big fan of fish, even without the mercury

> I live in England. So no questions I don't enough sun - we can

> go for weeks without seeing the sun, and that's just June.

CJ, do you like caviar? What about eggs? Both are good sources

as far as I know. 100 g egg yolk can contain at least 5 mcg.

The next good source would be birds - like goose, chicken,

pigeon, pheasant and turkey. Or are you a vegan?

Fredrik

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[Guest guest]

I forgot to add that I'm talking about vitamin D.

Fredrik

" Fredrik Murman " <fpm@t...> wrote:

>

> CJ <crackrjack13@y...> wrote:

>

> > I'm not a big fan of fish, even without the mercury

> > I live in England. So no questions I don't enough sun - we can

> > go for weeks without seeing the sun, and that's just June.

>

> CJ, do you like caviar? What about eggs? Both are good sources

> as far as I know. 100 g egg yolk can contain at least 5 mcg.

> The next good source would be birds - like goose, chicken,

> pigeon, pheasant and turkey. Or are you a vegan?

>

> Fredrik

>

> Arena for vegheads and meatheads

> vegvsmeat/

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Joanne Pollack wrote:

> I had some liver last week for the first time in

> months, and I noticed today that the spots at the top

> of my arms are all but gone. Also, the spots on my

> face have massively improved since then. Can vit A

> prevent spots on the face?

How do these spots look like, Joanne, if I may ask? What

color do they have? How big are they? And, what do you

mean by improved? Do you mean disappeared?

> Would cooking the eggs reduce my absorption of vit A,

> or even destroy the vit A in the egg?

I've read that vitamin A is very stable. You can bake, fry,

scramble, boil, poach and reheat eggs without destroying its

vitamin A content. Certain other vitamins suffer though.

Fredrik

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