Multivitamins making me sick?

Question

I am an extreme health nut and try to eat right, exercise and sleep a decent amount. I was finding myself sick though a lot or just not feeling well. They were always flu like symptoms and never nausea. I used to take a multivitamin thinking it would help. I was continuing to load up on the vitamins trying to boost my immune system. I did this dedicated until my health teacher said that multivitamins aren't really that necessary unless you are not healthy.

After I stopped taking vitamins my flu like symptoms stopped immediately. I recently tried to take a multivitamin again to see if what I thought was true and sure enough, within days I was getting the flu like symptoms.

Why is this happening?

Why are they flu like symptoms and not nausea?

Has anyone else had the same thing?

Answer 1

im not sure why exactly it happens but i remember one of my teachers once telling us that taking vitamins on top of a healthy diet is not good because your body just gets too many vitamins and it causes a build up

im also a health nut :)

my advice to you would be to just stop the vitamins, but im sure you already knew that

try researching this on google  

Answer 2

From one health nut to another,

I've not heard of similar problems but  it may be related to the kind of multi-vitamin pill. Do you know where and how it was manufactured, where the sources of ingredients came from, is it synthetic sources (petroleum based) or natural sources (how extracted).

I lways make sure to use whole food supplements as extracts in powder or liquid forms...now there's something totally new combining superfoods from both land and sea.