Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site brl-vgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!seismo!brl-vgr!wmartin From: wmartin@brl-vgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Vitamins Message-ID: <2426@brl-vgr.ARPA> Date: Mon, 12-Mar-84 13:25:40 EST Article-I.D.: brl-vgr.2426 Posted: Mon Mar 12 13:25:40 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Mar-84 08:54:16 EST Organization: Ballistics Research Lab Lines: 29 Has anyone read any info about the effect of non-daily doses of vitamins? I have the habit of missing taking my vitamins every other day for some time (usually a week or two), then taking them faithfully every day for a couple weeks, then backsliding again, etc... I take what probably would be characterized as "mega-doses" of vitamins, far more than the RDA amounts, but less than the real megadoses, like 6+ grams of C per day recommended by some. All the articles in the health-food press, Prevention, and the like, that I have read about vitamins, most of which claim that taking this or that will cure everything up to and including death, assume that you will take them daily. Is taking vitamins every other day exactly the same as taking half the dose daily? Or is there an effect that varies with the vitamins, due to rates of absorbtion, solubility, etc., that makes non-daily doses un-equatable to lower daily doses? Also, anybody have any input regarding avoiding certain vitamin combinations and/or food-vitamin pairings? I have heard that C and tea should not be taken together, for example, so I never take my vitamins in the evening when I may drink tea -- I try to take them in the afternoon at work instead, where I don't drink anything but water as a rule. Any other contraindicated combinations? I always just make up daily doses of the vitamins in a baggie and take the handful of pills & capsules all at once, so I probably am combining some that should be taken some hours apart. Will Martin