Help Deciding on a Fish Oil

[quote]London Runner wrote:
I’ll have a look into it and see what I can find out about excess vitamin A.[/quote]

Consuming 1000% Vit A once in awhile wouldn’t be an issue, but getting that day in and day out could lead to a toxicity.

Hypervitaminosis A (aka vitamin A toxicity):

"Symptoms of prolonged, excessive intake of vitamin A include:

irritability
loss of appetite
bone pain
blurred vision
drowsiness
diarrhea
nausea

When toxicity is diagnosed and the vitamin is withdrawn, symptoms usually disappear within a few days. Generally, toxicity occurs only when someone takes over 100,000 IU (International Units) of straight vitamin A for several months. The most famous cases of overdosing took place in the Arctic Circle, where some explorers ate over a pound of polar bear liver every day, containing about 9,000,000 IU of vitamin A. Since I have yet to see polar bear liver stocked in any market, toxicity from that source is unlikely."

  • The Bodybuilder’s Nutrition Book, Franco Columbu