What is the Recommended Dosage of Vitamins?
Video Transcript What Is the Recommended Dosage of Vitamins? Hi, I’m Rachael Richardson with Nutralution in South Beach, Florida. In this clip we’re talking about what is the recommended dosage of vitamins. Well, we have actually set standards and they’re now currently referred to as the RDI which is Referenced Dietary Intake. And actually this level of vitamins is set relatively low so this not really what I as a licensed nutritionist recommend that you strive for, it’s really a minimum level. And originally these minimum levels were set to prevent nutritional deficiency diseases such as scurvy. And so, you know, you might remember scurvy being the disease that sailors got which was because they didn’t get enough vitamin C when they were on the ship. And of course they brought with them, they started to learn this and started to bring with them things like limes just to prevent the vitamin C deficiency. Now however, we’re really looking at striving for much higher levels of vitamins a
