Can you become addicted to vitamins?!
Question: Can you become addicted to vitamins!?
My friend thinks if she misses one of her Vitamin C's she'll get sick!. I think she's addicted, is that possible!?Www@Youqa@Cn
Answers:
There are two general ways to look at addiction!. One involves a physiological response when the substance is removed!. Examples of this include addictions to nicotine, opiates, or alcohol!. Your body begins to 'crave' these substances when you stop using them in your have become addicted!. You might have changes in blood pressure, temperature, heart rate, feel intensely uncomfortable, hallucinate etc!., depending on the substance and the degree of addiction!.
There is also a non-physiological addiciton where one has an intense need for a substance and to sustain that use will do things that are self-destructive, illegal, cost them jobs or relationships!. Some people use marijuana in this fashion!. They don't have a physical withdrawal if they stop, but the continued use satisfies some significant need!. The pattern of use can be very damaging to their well-being, health or life but they have a hard time stopping nevertheless!.
Vitamins help the body to be more efficient and healthier but are not addictive in either sense!. Your friend has some false beliefs about her health needs and thinks she needs extra vitamin C!. If she has a generally healthy diet she probably gets enough to meet her body's needs!. If she feels better when she takes more it is not such a big deal!. Vitamin C is a water soluble vitamin and what your body doesn't use up it just excretes in the urine!. Some vitamins are fat soluble and dfeinitley pose a health risk if taken in excess!.Www@Youqa@Cn
There is also a non-physiological addiciton where one has an intense need for a substance and to sustain that use will do things that are self-destructive, illegal, cost them jobs or relationships!. Some people use marijuana in this fashion!. They don't have a physical withdrawal if they stop, but the continued use satisfies some significant need!. The pattern of use can be very damaging to their well-being, health or life but they have a hard time stopping nevertheless!.
Vitamins help the body to be more efficient and healthier but are not addictive in either sense!. Your friend has some false beliefs about her health needs and thinks she needs extra vitamin C!. If she has a generally healthy diet she probably gets enough to meet her body's needs!. If she feels better when she takes more it is not such a big deal!. Vitamin C is a water soluble vitamin and what your body doesn't use up it just excretes in the urine!. Some vitamins are fat soluble and dfeinitley pose a health risk if taken in excess!.Www@Youqa@Cn
Not in the way you mean!.
Vitamins are substances your body *needs* to live!. You are already 'addicted' to them in that you need them to be healthy!. In that way you're also 'addicted' to oxygen and water! Would you call someone who needs to breathe addicted to breathing!? Well, there you go then!.
You can be poisoned by too many vitamins and become ill if you take too many, but you can't get addicted to vitamin C like you do heroin or cocaine, substances your body *doesn't* naturally need to survive!.
Your friend may well get sick if she misses a dose, but that means that she has too little vitamin C in her normal diet, *not* that she is 'addicted' or that the pills are bad for her!.
Without vitamin C, in food, or in pills, you get very poorly indeed!. The illness is called 'scurvy'!.Www@Youqa@Cn
Vitamins are substances your body *needs* to live!. You are already 'addicted' to them in that you need them to be healthy!. In that way you're also 'addicted' to oxygen and water! Would you call someone who needs to breathe addicted to breathing!? Well, there you go then!.
You can be poisoned by too many vitamins and become ill if you take too many, but you can't get addicted to vitamin C like you do heroin or cocaine, substances your body *doesn't* naturally need to survive!.
Your friend may well get sick if she misses a dose, but that means that she has too little vitamin C in her normal diet, *not* that she is 'addicted' or that the pills are bad for her!.
Without vitamin C, in food, or in pills, you get very poorly indeed!. The illness is called 'scurvy'!.Www@Youqa@Cn
Vitamins are some people's "security blanket"!. That's all!. Technically speaking they are not addictive!.Www@Youqa@Cn
yes possible to any drug based vitamins!.Www@Youqa@Cn
it is quite possible!. Anything at all can be!.Www@Youqa@Cn