Nutrition in a box/bottle

I am going to ruffle some feathers with this post I am sure. I see on every bodybuilding board I go to where someone is taking multivitamins, vitamin c, vitamin b12 and about a hundred other vitamins. Your body needs vitamins for various reasons. Vitamins are used in various metabolic functions in the body and are essential to health.

However, A, D, E, and K are fat soluable vitamins that are stored in the body. Supplimenting these can lead to toxic levels pretty fast. Water soluable vitamens are used as coenzymes that aid in energy release. They don't create energy and are not burned as such. Some athletes say they take vitamins because of their increased energy output and poor dieting habbits. If you are lifting and excersizing more, you should be eating more. If you are eating more, you are probably getting your RDA in vitamins and minerals. There is absolutely no medical proof that getting over 100% of RDA increases performance. Supplimenting is only recommended if you are deficient in said vitamin. People read that vitamin C cures cancer or vitamin D makes your testicals bigger and they go buy a kg of it. It isn't necessary. For a 285lb bodybuilder who is bulking or cutting multivitamins should be enough if not overkill. When you are cutting, you don't get the fruits and things you need so you probably need a multivitamin...That's it. Why go put out $80 a month on V & M suppliments when you are just going to piss it out or it is actually going to hurt you? If you are eating meats, legumes, vegetables and cereal and drinking some milk, you are getting all you need in V&M. You can take suppliments till the cows come home and all you are doing is filling your sewer line with inorganics. I realize that bodybuilding in itself is a science. This is just from a medical/physiological point of view. Tell me what you think!

Your right. I actually watched a program on this today.

You would probably get a lot of flack from life extensionists and similar groups if this was that sort of discussion board. Personally, I've always thought of supplementation as being not much more than insurance that you may never need. But I'm sure some one could argue against what I just said. Furthermore, although I've never read of any well documented cases of toxic poisoning from fat soluable virtamins, I've never seen any need to overload on them. But I wouldn't get carried away on toxicity either. Remember, the "experts" used to warn against kidney damage due to excess ascorbic acid but they never cited a single example. And didn't they also used to say that high dosing on anabolics didn't really make a difference too? I believe that you can count on a televised change in point of view on any nutritional subject about every 6 months.

Well based on logic you can come up with a conclusion that he is correct. Iron for example is fat soluble and if a bodybuilder is consuming a shit load of meat he is metabolizing quite a bit of iron and if on top of that he's take a mega Multi than he is reaching toxic levels of iron. Although overdoses if iron is mainly linked infant death it can be detrimental to adults. Im sure there is a huge argument to be made here, but I think moderation is key.

I agree, I wasn't saying that if you take alot of it that it was going to kill you or anything. I mean, even water is toxic if you consume too much. I was just putting this up so those guys that think they have to take all of these vitamins and minerals to gain mass and what not don't waste their money. I would suggest looking at your diet and finding out what it is lacking and supplement those. Just no need to spend all of that money on crap your body is going to get rid of. Spend it on something else like AAS

Yea. I tend to agree when mentzer said we are overnourished and overtrained. that was a good topic to bring up and something to think about.