I read the latest publication on Kuprum about vitamins and was pleasantly surprised by the new nonsense. I already thought that the guys had seriously invested in fact-checking and were checking all the facts. But no, I still have a place to roam. I love such publications. Maybe they are deliberately provoking us? They lay out Easter eggs and giggle. I doubt something ...
In short, we were talking about water-soluble vitamins, and the author refers to a foreign book from 1989 on diet and health. Like our body cannot accumulate water-soluble vitamins, and their excess is excreted in the urine.
In fact, everything is more complicated there. And if the author of the article really read at least that small chapter of the book from 1989, he would find there more than one English word "stores". It occurs in the text of the chapter 5 times and means just "reserves" of vitamins.
Moreover, only in one case the word is used in the sense that there are no reserves, and in the other four cases it indicates the real reserves in our body of water-soluble vitamins.
And now, dear readers, try to guess in what part of the text this word is used in the sense that these very reserves are not there? Right! At the very beginning, it is used in this sense. The author of the article did not get further than the beginning and wrote the rest. And about the urine too.
I love to follow the train of thought of such people. Well, like, how many paragraphs did the dude have the patience to read the English text.
In short, water-soluble vitamins can actually be stored and stored. Not all of them, but they can.
Drunkard
Any thiamine (vitamin B1) does not accumulate. Therefore, they will not be able to poison themselves. The kidneys immediately remove it. After a month, it will no longer be in our body. If a drunkard eats poorly and drinks a lot, then his nerves will begin to fail from a lack of thiamine.
Scurvy
If you send sailors to sail across the Atlantic on a sailing ship and feed them only corned beef, then after three months of such life, their reserves of vitamin C will be depleted, and scurvy will begin. Well, that is, scurvy will not begin the day after tomorrow, but in months.
Vitamin B9
Folic acid is also water-soluble and is rapidly excreted from our body. Its reserves will only last for a few weeks or, at best, for a few months.
Vitamin B12
We are with you already discussed vitamin B12, which are difficult to poison, because it is quickly excreted by the kidneys. It is also water-soluble. Vitamin B12 reserves can last for years. If you are lucky, then for 5 - 10 years. He is the record holder in this matter.
In general, brothers, it is better not to make categorical conclusions in matters of health. There in this business is very, very much different.
Sometimes water-soluble vitamins accumulate more than fat-soluble ones.
Have you heard any stories about this? Well, like what is absorbed and accumulated with what ...
