Fat Soluble vs Water Soluble Vitamins: When Do You Take Them?
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 7 May 2020
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I want to talk to you about fat-soluble vitamins vs. water-soluble vitamins. When should you take them, and what is the difference?
Fat-soluble vitamins are stored in your fat cells and in your liver. Water-soluble vitamins are not stored—if you consume too much, your body will get rid of what you don’t need.
Fat soluble vitamins include:
• Vitamin A
• Vitamin D
• Vitamin E
• Vitamin K1
• Vitamin K2
These vitamins are able to penetrate the fat layer of your cells and go deeper. They can even affect your DNA and mitochondria. Water-soluble vitamins are not capable of this.
Water soluble vitamins include:
• B vitamins
• Vitamin C
You want to take fat-soluble vitamins along with fatty foods. So it’s best to have fat-soluble vitamins with food. They are absorbed far better this way.
You can take water-soluble vitamins any time—you don’t need fat to help with absorption.
Fat-soluble vitamins are toxic in large amounts. Unlike water-soluble vitamins, fat-soluble vitamins are stored, and excess amounts cannot be released through the urine.
Keep in mind that you should be taking water-soluble vitamins while you fast since your body doesn’t store them very well.
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| 0:00.0 | So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or intermittent fasting, whether you're starting |
| 0:05.3 | keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or you have a question about a product, |
| 0:10.6 | call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 540-299-1557. That's 540-299-1557. |
| 0:21.6 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. |
| 0:49.0 | Hey guys, I wanted to bring up a couple points about fat-sliable vitamins versus water-sliable vitamins. |
| 0:50.0 | A couple simple differences. |
| 0:52.4 | Fat-siable vitamins are stored in your fat cells and in your liver. |
| 0:58.4 | Water-soluble are not stored, and if you consume too much, your body will just get rid of what you don't |
| 1:04.4 | need. The interesting thing about fat-siable vitamins, and I'm talking about vitamin A, D, E, K-1, and K-2, as they're able to penetrate |
| 1:15.0 | the fat layer on your cells and go deeper and even affect the DNA and the mitochondria. |
| 1:21.6 | Whereas water-sibyl, most of them cannot bypass this lipid membrane, this fat layer right here. So the water-soluble |
| 1:29.9 | vitamins are the B-vitamins and vitamin C. Okay. And of course, we're not talking about other |
| 1:35.2 | nutrients like minerals or trace minerals. We're just talking about fat-sibble versus water-scibel. |
| 1:41.5 | Now, as far as when to take these, you would want to take these with food, with fat, |
| 1:47.9 | because if you consume fat, they'll be absorbed better. These you can take any time because you |
| 1:55.7 | don't need fat to help them be absorbed. They're water-siable. Fats soluble vitamins are toxic in large amounts. Why? |
| 2:02.9 | Well, because they're stored and they're not able to be released through the urine like water-soluble |
| 2:09.5 | ones are if you take too much. So let's say, for example, you consumed liver from a polar bear. |
| 2:15.6 | And by the way, have a tremendous amount of concentrated vitamin A. |
| 2:19.6 | Well, that can actually kill you. It's very, very toxic and that quantity. But if you're taking |
| 2:24.6 | the B vitamins or vitamin C, your body will tend to get rid of them. You probably notice that |
| 2:28.9 | when you urinated after taking B vitamins, that bright yellow color of urine. That's the B vitamins coming out |
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