Healthguider Women’s Health
Watch your Vits with the Pill
The contraceptive pill seems almost ubiquitous. Its potential
side effects have also been well publicised but little has
been mentioned about its effects on a woman’s nutritional
status.
- The Pill raises blood levels of vitamin A.
- Reduces tryptophan metabolism.
- Increases requirements for Vit.B6, Vit B12, folic acid,
Vit C, Vit E, manganese and zinc.
If you take the Pill it might be worth supplementing with
the above vitamins and mineral.
A word of warning; very high doses of vitamin C (more that
1 gram per day) should be avoided. The Pill increases the
activity of vitamin C at this level.
© Healthguider 2004
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