The patient had been taking 20 different supplements a day as part of a health effort, according to doctors writing in The British Medical Journal. The unnamed man spent eight days in hospital because his kidneys stopped working after starting a “vitamin regimen on the advice of a private nutritionist”. He was taking a daily cocktail of over-the-counter supplements, including 50,000 micrograms (mcg) of vitamin D — more than 80 times the recommended daily intake of 600 mcg — as well as high doses of vitamin C, omega-3 and magnesium. The man was
