Endocrinologist with 23 years of experience - about what the result of taking vitamins "just in case"
The more vitamins the better? Not always.
Today I want to warn you against a mistake that people who care about their health are making more and more often.
This is about medicinal hepatitis (drug induced liver injury, or DILI) or hepatitis due to the use of biologically active additives or herbal remedies (herb induced liver injury, or HILI).
Such diagnoses are becoming more common.
What leads to drug-induced hepatitis
Vitamins and dietary supplements are highly active substances and should not be taken thoughtlessly. There are companies that do their jobs irresponsibly and what is stated on the packaging is not true. But there are also those who treat the production of dietary supplements as medicines and clearly fulfill the requirements. And such dietary supplements, like any drug, are good only if they are taken in the recommended amount.
First of all our liver suffers, it is generally on the first line of neutralizing everything that enters our body.
Some substances are compatible with each other, and some are not. Some reinforce each other's actions, and some, on the contrary, weaken. Putting everything together is not a very easy task, even for a specialist.
How to take vitamins and dietary supplements
Therefore, I would very much like to call all of you to rationality and not try, just in case, to use more antiviral agents, vitamins, microelements and other substances.
Limit yourself to one multicomplex vitamin, you can add there vitamin D3 and only if you know the initial level in the blood of D3.
Everything else - only as prescribed by a doctor.
Your Doctor Pavlova
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