In fall 2006, I was having a tough time. Junior year, taking the hardest classes I had yet, and not really knocking them out of the park. I was living with some good friends, too, but it was a 4-person 2-bedroom apartment, which is still kind of stressful.

I used to take multivitamins. I noticed, at one point during fall 2006, that I had just about enough vitamins to last until the end of the semester. After that semester, in the spring, I would study abroad in the Netherlands, and I guess I figured that senior year would be good and I’d go find a great job or something, and pretty much everything would be fine if I just got through that one semester. Every day as I took my vitamin, I’d sort of muse about it being a little suffering pill. After I got through those, it’d all be golden.

The weird part of this story is that I was pretty much right. I studied in the Netherlands, it was pretty fun, I got a cool research gig and had one of my best summers, enjoyed senior year, rolled on to Google, got into grad school, bummed around the world, and it’s all been fine. Until this year: work has been tough.

For kind of dumb reasons, I happen to have another bottle of multivitamins. I figured, might as well take them, as long as I’ve got them. And then I started forming the same story, about having a little bottle of suffering pills.

But you know what? Could be that vitamins are bad for you. So I’m throwing them out.

Comments:

yincrash - Oct 6, 2013

One thing that I think is important to mention is the solubility of the vitamin. Most of the ones mentioned in the article are only soluble in fat, which means that the body cannot effectively dispose of excess through urinating.