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From: wmartin@brl-vgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Vitamins
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Date: Mon, 12-Mar-84 13:25:40 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 12 13:25:40 1984
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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