How Your Body Loses Its Vitamins And Minerals
See also Multivitamin failure...Antibiotics can deplete vitamins B2, C, D, niacin, folic acid, biotin, calcium, iron, magnesium, potassium, and zinc.
Antacids can reduce your levels of calcium, copper, iron, phosphorus, folic acid, and vitamins A and B1.
Alcohol can affect availability, absorption, and metabolism of nutrients. Regular heavy use of alcohol increases the bodys need for the B-group vitamins, particularly thiamine, niacin, folic acid and vitamins B12, A and C, plus the minerals zinc, magnesium and calcium.
Diuretics can deplete potassium, magnesium, sodium, zinc, and vitamin B2.
Soda with its excessive amounts of phosphates interferes with normal calcium metabolism and can draw calcium right out of you bones.
Hot coffee, tea, and spices - Habitual drinking of liquids that are too hot, or consuming an excess of irritants such as coffee, tea, or pickles and spices can cause inflammation of the digestive linings, resulting in a drop in secretion of digestive fluids and poorer extraction of vitamins and minerals from food.
Conjugated estrogens like Premarin and oral contraceptives are associated with deficiencies such as B-complex vitamins, vitamin C, magnesium, and zinc.
Overuse of laxatives - Paraffin and other mineral oils in laxatives increase losses of fat soluble vitamins A, D, and E. Other laxatives used to excess can cause large losses of minerals such as potassium, sodium and magnesium.
Stress will deplete the building blockslike vitamin C, vitamins B5 and B6, magnesium, zinc, and potassium, all of which your adrenal glands need to manufacture hormones.
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