Vitamins

[alphaman]

I know that if you take too much at one time, then the excess that your body doesn't absorb is peed out. Now if I have one multi that has everthing I want but potassium, and I want potassium, and I take my wife's multi at the same time, which has a lot of potassium. Say I take them both at the same time, will I pee the potassium out?

Does your body take what it needs, or does it non-selectively take vitamins in the amounts it can, and discard everything else?

[Polska]

it will take anything in the amounts that it can, so it shouldnt discard the potassium if your first multi doesnt have it.

[alphaman]

cool, that's what i was hoping. want to use all the vitamins i got b4 buying more.

[icewind]

I know that if you take too much at one time, then the excess that your body doesn't absorb is peed out. Now if I have one multi that has everthing I want but potassium, and I want potassium, and I take my wife's multi at the same time, which has a lot of potassium. Say I take them both at the same time, will I pee the potassium out?

Does your body take what it needs, or does it non-selectively take vitamins in the amounts it can, and discard everything else?

potassium is not a vitamin it's a mineral. in general vitamins are excreted by the body if not needed, same does not apply to all minerals.

[alphaman]

I always thought Vitamin K was potassium, but after a little searching on google, I see that K is the symbol for potassium, and that VitaminK is something totally different. Seems to be a common misconception. Learn something new every day!

[SwoleCat]

Yeah, that's some tricky stuff!

~SC~