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and so day-to-day fluctuations become less of a problem
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with fat soluble then water soluble vitamins,
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because the body can go grab them from a storage depot, if you will.
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But then they can also be toxic if taken in too large of amounts
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because the body does store them.
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The water soluble vitamins tend to be used more immediately by the body
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not stored and excreted through the urine if consumed in excess,
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so the body can tolerate more variation in intake of these
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before you start getting toxicity than
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is the case with the vitamins on the right.
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But they're all important for health in one reason or another.
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And again, we could spend a lot of class time saying,