Toxic Effects Of Nutrients If Consumed In Excess - Hemochromatosis, Hypercalcemia – Dr.Berg

So today we’re going to talk about the toxic effect of nutrients, and I’m talking aboutexcessive amounts, toxic amounts of certain nutrients and what can happen if you take toomuch. In all the other videos, I talk about deficiencies. Today, we’re going to reversethe flow and talk about the opposite effect. Now, when the studies were done in vitamin Aand vitamin E and some of the other antioxidants, you have to realize that they’re using synthetics.

So when you take high amounts of synthetic antioxidants, you can create a lot of problems,one being cancer. And that’s what they found when they did this study. But of course,they didn’t use natural food-based antioxidants. They used synthetics. And I think the reason forthat is that antioxidants basically give up electrons. So they’re helping stabilize freeradicals by giving these electrons to this free radical, which now the free radical becomes

stabilized. If you’re taking a synthetic vitamin A, for example, it doesn’t come from nature.In nature, it always comes in a network of antioxidants. And what happens is when oneantioxidant donates electron, this antioxidant becomes a free radical because it lost anelectron. And if there’s nothing else to donate and give an electron to balance it out,it can create damage. And I really think that’s why people get cancer if they’re doing high levels

of synthetic vitamins, especially antioxidants. But if you have too much vitamin A, it will impairyour vision, which is interesting because if you’re deficient in vitamin A, you also impairyour vision. Bone pain, probably because the relationship between vitamin A and vitamin D.If you have too much vitamin A, you deplete vitamin D and you get bone pain. This is whyin nature, it always comes in complexes. Like cod liver oil, for example, you’re going to see

vitamin A and vitamin D together, like a 50-50 split. Too much vitamin A can irritate your skin.Too much vitamin E can cause a problem with bleeding internally because it’s kind of likea blood thinner. You might bruise easily, that type of thing, fatigue, weak, not many othersymptoms other than bleeding internally. Vitamin D. Now, there really is no side effects from highlevels of vitamin D other than what happens to calcium. So you get too much calcium in the blood.

And even with this, there’s a lot of gray areas. There’s not a lot of studies on this. So we don’teven know if that’s actually 100% true. But we do know the RDAs for vitamin D are meant or createdto prevent rickets, which is a deficiency disease. They were not designed to create long-term healthor longevity, those type of things. The therapeutic benefit of high levels of vitamin Dare huge. So one strategy is this to avoid taking cheese or calcium when you take vitamin D,

or even during the day. And that way you’ll get the benefit of vitamin D, especially forautoimmune and inflammation without the chance of getting a kidney stone.So I’ve done videos on this before. And then we have vitamin C. And the big side effect is diarrhea.Iron. Iron is a very, very important nutrient to get in small amounts if you need it.The danger of not having enough is huge. And the danger of having too much is very,

very huge as well. So you just need the right amount. The problem with iron is it accumulates.Your body has a hard time getting rid of it, and it recycles it, and it accumulates in the liverand creates cirrhosis. It accumulates in the brain, and it creates oxidation, and even in your heart,and it can even cause cancer. It can cause constipation, and there’s a condition calledhemochromatosis, which is a genetic disorder where you can’t get rid of iron, and iron becomes very

toxic on your body. And those people donate blood and they feel a lot better. I would use somethingcalled EDTA. That’s a chelator that can help pull iron out of the body. Then we have iodine. If youhave too much iodine, it can create a hyperthyroid condition. It can create a toxic effect to thethyroid. But if you don’t have enough iron, that can create hypothyroidism. Now, the problem withmuch iodine is it depletes other minerals like selenium, which is a trace mineral. And selenium

is involved in some really key enzymes to help act as an antioxidant. So too much iodine bindsup the selenium and then you don’t have this enzyme anymore and you get more oxidation andmore problem, especially with the thyroid being the hydrogen peroxide that can build up andcreate a lot of problems. Same thing with fish that has mercury in it. If you have enough selenium,you’re going to be fine. But mercury tends to inhibit the selenium and then you lose these

enzymes. All right, magnesium. Magnesium, a side effect would be diarrhea, low blood pressure,irregular heartbeats. Now, what’s interesting with magnesium, if you don’t have enough of it,you get irregular heartbeats. You get high blood pressure. You get constipation. Okay,come back to selenium again. One of the side effects of too much selenium is alopecia,where you’re missing patches of hair through your head. Now, alopecia is an autoimmune condition,

usually involving a deficiency of zinc. So if you have too much selenium, it can deplete zincand give you alopecia and dermatitis because the skin issues are related to low zinc.And then if you have too much zinc, you’ll be deficient in copper and you’ll have a problemabsorbing copper. And there’s a whole bunch of conditions with that, especially related tocollagen and connective tissue. You might get a fever, gastritis. And then if you have the opposite

of that, where you’re deficient in zinc, you can get an ulcer. So I just wanted to show you thatthere is a relationship between nutrients. You shouldn’t have this idea that if a little is good,a lot more is better. There’s a lot of toxic effects, especially with trace minerals andsynthetic vitamins. Try to get most of your nutrients from food or use vitamins or nutrientsthat are food-based. Thanks for watching. Hey, if you’re liking this content, please subscribe now,

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