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Why does my pee turn extra super fakey yellow when I take vitamins? The vitamins aren't yellow!

Your pee turns yellow because of the B-vitamins, specifically riboflavin. Nothing to worry about, just funny looking. Your body doesn't absorb everything in the vitamin, especially from pill form, so it pees out what doesn't stick. You actually only absorb about 30–40 percent of the average multivitamin tablet...BAD! (As a gross side note, guess what septic tank workers find the most?  Undigested pills!)

My recommendation is to buy liquid formulas, and the one I recommend in my practice is called Istotonix Multi-Tech. It is proven to be 90 percent absorbable. It can be ordered at http://chforlife.com and comes in a formula with and without Iron.  Just put the name in the search engine part and it will come up.

What is the connection between cholesterol in food and cholesterol in the body?  My grandma is afraid that I am going to have a heart attack because I eat eggs for breakfast every day.

Great question as there is a lot of confusion about this one.  Although there is a connection with blood lipid levels rising as a direct result of ingesting dietary cholesterol, Dr. Walter Willet at Harvard University concluded several years ago that there is HIGHER correlation with saturated fats contributing to "high cholesterol" than just eating cholesterol itself. So the trick, like all things in life, is to look at the big picture.  If you eat eggs often but have a fairly clean, low saturated fat diet, you probably don't have much to worry about concerning heart disease barring genetic factors.  Steak and eggs every morning?  Hmmm... Maybe not.

And as long as we're on the topic of breakfast, is turkey bacon really that much healthier than regular bacon?

Yes!  Especially organic turkey bacon as it is usually made without added fillers and chemicals.



4 Comments

spacedcowgirl said:

I can vouch for the "undigested pills" thing. I used to do water monitoring for a city with combined (storm and sanitary) sewers. When it rained a lot the sewers would overflow (this is true of a lot of old sewer systems) to the river. Along with condoms, pads/tampons, and generic trash, pills were among the items we frequently found in the overflows. So the moral of the story is "Ewwww," and also some of your expensive prescription pills might be going literally straight down the drain, and also (on an unrelated pet-peeve note) For the Love of God, People, You Are Grown-ups, Stop Flushing Condoms, It's Gross.

Pamela said:

What about pre-natal vitamins? Any recommendations of pre-natal vitamins that are fully absorbed? Thanks!

Sarah said:

Great question, Pamela. The answer will run next Wednesday. Stay tuned!

La Wade said:

A big caveat emptor to anyone buying supplements: there is virtually no independent research (i.e. research done by people not working for the companies that produce these products) done on any dietary supplement. So, advertising claims like "90 percent absorbable" should be taken with a huge grain of salt.

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