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Vitamins
See also:
Vitamin C
Vitamin D
Minerals
Mitochondrial Dysfunction
NRF2 Activators
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Vitamins
Key:
Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA)
Upper Tolerable Limit (UL)
Adequate Intake (AI)
Boron
RDA: Not determined
UL: 20 mg/day
Calcium
RDA:
Age 1-3: 700 mg/day
Age 19-50: 1,000 mg/day
Age 4-8: 1,000 mg/day
Age 9-18: 1,300 mg/day
Women age 51+: 1,200 mg/day
Men age 71+: 1,200 mg/day
UL:
Age 19-50: 2,500 mg/day
Age 51 and up: 2,000 mg/day
Chloride
RDA:
Age 19-50: 2,300 mg/day
Age 50-70: 2,000 mg/day
Age 70 and older: 1,800 mg/day
UL: 3,600 mg/day
Choline
(Vitamin B complex)
RDA:
Age 70 and older: 1,800 mg/day
Women: 425 mg/day *
UL: 3,500 mg/day
Copper
RDA: 900 micrograms/day
UL: 10,000 micrograms/day
Fluoride
RDA:
Men: 4 mg/day * 10 mg/day
Women: 3 mg/day *
UL: 10 mg/day
Folic Acid**
(Folate)
RDA: 400 micrograms/day
UL: 1,000 micrograms (1mg) /day
This applies only to synthetic folic acid in supplements or fortified foods. There is no upper limit for
folic acid from natural sources.
Iodine
RDA: 150 micrograms/day
UL: 1,100 micrograms/day
Iron**
RDA:
Men: 8 mg/day
Women age 19-50: 18 mg/day
Women age 51 and up: 8 mg/day
UL: 45 mg/day
Magnesium
RDA:
Men age 19-30: 400 mg/day
Men age 31 and up: 420 mg/day
Women age 19-30: 310 mg/day
Women age 31 and up: 320 mg/day
UL: 350 mg/day
This applies only to magnesium in supplements or fortified foods. There is no upper limit for
magnesium in food and water.
Manganese
RDA:
Men: 2.3 mg/day *
Women: 1.8 mg/day*
UL: 11 mg/day
Molybdenum
RDA: 45 micrograms/day
UL: 2,000 micrograms/day
Nickel
RDA: Not determined
UL: 1.0 mg/day
Phosphorus
RDA: 700 mg/day
UL:
Up to age 70: 4,000 mg/day
Over age 70: 3,000 mg/day
Selenium
RDA: 55 micrograms/day
UL: 400 micrograms/day
Sodium
RDA:
Age 19-50: 1,500 mg/day
Age 51-70: 1,300 mg/day
Age 71 and up: 1,200 mg/day
UL: 2,300 mg/day
Vanadium
RDA: Not determined
UL: 1.8 mg/day
Zinc
RDA:
Men: 11 mg/day
Women: 8 mg/day
UL: 40 mg/day
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Vitamin A
RDA:
Men: 3,000 IU/day
Women: 2,310 IU/day
UL: 10,000 IU/day
Vitamin B1**
(Thiamine)
RDA:
men 14 years and older: 1.2 mg
women over 18 years,:1.1 mg
pregnant women: 1.4 mg
breast-feeding women: 1.5 mg
UL: Not identified
Vitamin B2**
(Riboflavin)
RDA:
1 – 13 years: 0.5-0.9 mg/day
Males age 14 and older: 1.3 mg/day
Females age 14 to 18 years: 1.0 mg/day
Females age 19 and older: 1.1 mg/day
UL: Not identified
Vitamin B3**
(Niacin)
RDA:
Men: 16 mg/day
Women: 14 mg/day
UL: 35 mg/day
(This applies only to niacin in supplements or fortified foods. There is no upper limit for niacin in natural sources.)
Vitamin B6
(Pyridoxine)
RDA:
Men age 19-50: 1.3 mg/day
Men age 51 up:1.7 mg/day
Women age 19-50: 1.3 mg/day
Women age 51 up: 1.5 mg/day
UL: 100 mg/day
Vitamin C
RDA:
Men: 90 mg/day
Women: 75 mg/day
UL: 2,000 mg/day
Vitamin D
(Calciferol)
RDA:
Age 1-70: 15 micrograms/day (600 IU, or international units) *
Age 70 and older: 20 micrograms/day (800 IU) *
National Osteoporosis Foundation recommends 800-1,000 IU for age >60
UL: 100 micrograms/day (4,000 IU)
Vitamin E
(alpha-tocopherol)
RDA: 22.4 IU/day
This applies only to vitamin E in supplements or fortified foods. There is no upper limit for vitamin E from natural sources.
UL: (1,500 IU/day)
** Added to flour in U.S. as “Vitamin enriched”
References
Vitamin Supplements – Overview:
Vitamins – Recommended Daily Allowaces
Vitamins – Multi
Metanx
Metanx – Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy (DPN)
- Epidermal Nerve Fiber Density and Small Fiber Neuropathy
- Improvement of cutaneous sensitivity in diabetic peripheral neuropathy with combination L-methylfolate, methylcobalamin, and pyridoxal 5′-phosphate. – PubMed – NCBI
- Metanx in type 2 diabetes with peripheral neuropathy: a randomized trial. – PubMed – NCBI
Metanx – Diabetic Retinopathy
- Intervention with vitamins in patients with nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy – a pilot study
- Metanx and early stages of diabetic retinopathy. – PubMed – NCBI
Vitamins – Individual
Biotin
Folate (Vitamin B9)
Nicotinamide. Riboside NR (Niacel)
Vitamin B12
Vitamin B12 – Overviews
- Vitamin B12 – Overview
- Dietary Supplement Fact Sheet: Vitamin B12 — Health Professional Fact Sheet
- Update on Vitamin B12 Deficiency
- Vegetarian lifestyle and monitoring of vitamin B-12 status. – PubMed – NCBI
Vitamin B12 – Depression
- Effects of high-dose B vitamin complex with vitamin C and minerals on subjective mood and performance in healthy males
- Longitudinal association of vitamin B-6, folate, and vitamin B-12 with depressive symptoms among older adults over time
Vitamin B12 – Low Back Pain
- Intramuscular Vitamin B12 Injections for Treating Chronic Low Bac
- Methylcobalamin – A Potential Vitamin Pain Killer
- The efficacy and safety of intramuscular injections of methylcobalamin in patients with chronic nonspecific low back pain – a randomised controlled trial.
- Vitamin B12 in low back pain: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study – 2000
Vitamin B12 – Metformin
Vitamin B12 –Peripheral Neuropathy
- Epidermal Nerve Fiber Density and Small Fiber Neuropathy
- Improvement of cutaneous sensitivity in diabe… [Rev Neurol Dis. 2010] – PubMed – NCBI
- The effects of vitamin B12 and diclofenac and their combination on cold and mechanical allodynia in a neuropathic pain model in rats
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of alpha-lipoic acid in the treatment of diabetic peripheral neuropathy – PubMed Health
- Effect of mecobalamin on diabetic neuropathies
- Improvement of cutaneous sensitivity in diabetic peripheral neuropathy with combination L-methylfolate, methylcobalamin, and pyridoxal 5′-phosphate. – PubMed – NCBI
- Metanx in type 2 diabetes with peripheral neuropathy: a randomized trial. – PubMed – NCBI
- Meta-analysis of methylcobalamin alone and in combination with lipoic acid in patients with diabetic peripheral neuropathy. – PubMed – NCBI
- Vitamin B12 may be more effective than nortriptyline in improving painful diabetic neuropathy. – PubMed – NCBI
Vitamin B12 – Proton Pump Inhibitors (PPIS) – (Nexium, Prilosec etc.)
- Potential gastrointestinal effects of long-term acid suppression with proton pump inhibitors
- low Vitamin B12 in Trigeminal Neuralgia
Vitamin C
Vitamin D
Vitamins – Obesity
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