Possible Negative Effects of Taking Too Many Supplements

Next question is from Huntley Michael. Does taking too many supplements or vitamins have possible negative consequences in regards to liver and kidney health? It depends what you mean by too much. Like if I took a whole bottle of you know vitamin D I mean will that affect my organs? Well there's okay we talked about this a long time ago and I actually think that there's this part is more common especially from health and fitness people that take a shake, take a bar, take a multivitamin and now you've got things like your iron and magnesium and some of these things that you don't need that and all of them are giving your RDA. So like you've a lot of times you'll flip around the back of a supplement. Yeah vitamin fortified supplements and then you have a protein shake that is basically saying here's all the vitamins you need for the day and then you in addition that you also take a multivitamin in addition that you're also taking a bar and all of them are saying this is everything you need for your day and there's certain things you don't want a bunch of there's certain things that are gonna are gonna matter or gonna be negligible but then there are certain things that we don't want too high of levels and I think that have an adverse effect. Yeah it depends on what you're talking about and what you mean by too much like you can get away with a lot of vitamin C if it's fat soluble vitamin you can't really get away with too much creatine is very safe but at some point I mean anything taken too much can you can drink too much water that'll kill you? Well you can drink was it too many take too many BCA throughout the day and it'll actually affect your your mental state right yeah depression depressed yeah and so I mean there's some some cause and effect there but there are some you know that would actually provide a more toxic kind of environment if you you know body with it yeah what are those so it's like what I said right magnesium zinc iron minerals and fat soluble vitamins so that's basically those are all the ones your body stores so it doesn't get rid of what it doesn't need it stores them and if you keep taking them in you'll store more and more and more until you get piles yeah yeah until you get to problematic and then it's just and basically you're overwhelming the kidney kidneys because it's having to filtrate I don't know if it's gonna be so much of the kidneys it depends on the nutrient but you'll you'll get like calcium you can start developing calcium deposits in your arteries too much vitamin C I think can cause issues if I'm not mistaken with your skin so it depends on the on the or it can cause deficiencies so like too much zinc can cause a deficiency in copper which can have its own issues so it really does depend when it comes to herbs and other weird supplements I mean if it's a stimulant can you take too much yeah too much stimulants gonna not be so good for you was it a factor that like because like pharmaceuticals are so like concentrated that that's more of an impact if you you know overdose versus supplements well it's easier being as conscious yeah like it's really hard to overdose on nutrients in nature is it even possible I've never heard of it I mean I guess you could eat like you get a lot of like beef liver and you might you'll get too much iron okay you know because it's so dense and I mean for me it's unheard of though right I've never I mean maybe it's possible if someone actually actively tried to do that if someone ate four pounds of liver in a day which I don't know anyone's got a really but I don't know anybody that's why I think we always recommend to go the whole whole food wise right like go natural like if you I mean I this is something we still have yet to create I've always wondered I know you could Google and find us we don't need to create it but you know I've found tables where it's like the all the like all the different foods and what vitamins and minerals they provide that your body needs and if you if you look at that table and you go like oh I do a pretty good job of eating all those things in rotation and you just become aware of like oh wow you know what it's been a week or two since I've had any real fruit or any of these things that to me that's where you supplement that's when you utilize those things we're going in the winter I want to keep my vitamin D level right versus just you know every day I take this this this and this regardless of what your levels are yeah and regardless if you know what your diet is I mean maybe you got plenty of that in your in your diet so why are you supplementing for that I mean so a waste of money and then it could potentially have some now if you look at the the reports of liver and kidney issues very few of them are related to supplements the vast majority related to pharmaceutical substances and drugs over the counter like Tylenol Tylenol oh yeah can cause some serious issues with liver and there's lots of these pharmaceutical drugs that people use and that that's and they have to get processed through the liver or the kidneys and they can cause lots of issues I know back in the early 2000s when I was you know I mean and lots of people were taking these over to the counter kind of designer steroids not and we thought they were pro hormones or whatever that the they had to get processed through the liver I mean could you overload your liver with that oh yeah you totally could so it depends on what you're talking about and what your levels are I do suggest when it comes to minerals and fat soluble vitamins to know what your levels are so you know if your supplementing is okay or if you're taking in too much everything else I would always stay within reason what's recommended and what's found in studies I mean this goes without saying but I'll say it anyway you can take too much of anything yeah more isn't always better yeah it reminds me that that there was like a contest or something where these I don't know if it was a hazing at some college but no I was on a talk show radio talk about the water yeah who could pound the most water in a short period of time the person died person died their cells literally drowned so this is true for any substance and you know what I think this comes from it sounds like a kid who's taking like three or four supplements and their mom is like you're gonna hurt your liver that's my mom right you hurt your liver and your kidneys you know so you know probably not but if you are overdosing on things that get stored on your body they can definitely cause issues so again get those levels tested so you know what to supplement with hey if you enjoyed that clip you can find the full episode here or you can find other clips over here and be sure to subscribe