Questions for smart people

[cyrano]

In my current vitamin supplement (Avon's Men's Complete) I'm getting 240 mcg of Chromium (as chromium brown rice chelate). This supplement my mom just sent me has 200 mcg of Chromium (as Chromax Chromium Picolinate). Combined, that would give me about 350% of the USRDA of Chromium, in various forms. Do I need to worry about that being too much? Most of the information I see says I shouldn't worry if I'm under a thousand mcg a day. But I'm naturally worrisome.

Comments

You don't need to worry

[luagha.livejournal.com]

Especially if you weigh over 200 pounds.
Chromium sensitizes you to your own insulin and tightens up the whole sugar/glucose management pathways. That is why it's included in various 'fat burners' and weight loss assistance supplements.

There was a single dubious study done on 'chromium picolinate' that claimed some kind of chromosomal damage but it's been mostly discredited. It made people come out with 'chromium polynicotinate' however and the experiment failed when it was attempted on that supplement - and the polynicotinate is easier to digest.

I have never seen the brown rice chelate before and so I don't know which of the above it is. Chromium is usually a yeast derivative product - they scoop it off of huge fermenting vats and process out all the desirable chemicals like B vitamins and so on. They turn the rest into Vegemite and various food enhancers (that 'autolyzed yeast product') you read about that are actually monosodium glutamate.

Re: You don't need to worry

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Excellent--thanks for the reassurance. (: All I have to do now is actually remember to take it.

I should add

[luagha.livejournal.com]

Doses up to 800 mcg are used in treating obesity with no known side effects.

Re: I should add

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Yay! This is definitely comforting news. And maybe it will have some effect on my obesity.

If you want some actual advice

[luagha.livejournal.com]

As to supplementation for an anti-obesity program, I have a fairly good listing. Contact me if you want to get into it.
luagha at the yahoo.com is my spam address - bounce me there and I will get you my real address. Which is getting plenty spammed.