What You Need to Know About Vitamin A

Vitamin A is one of those vitamins that is easy to get enough of just from the foods you eat. In fact, having a vitamin A deficiency is quite rare because it is so readily available in common foods. For many Americans, vitamin A is primarily consumed via dairy products. Vitamin A can also be found as retinol in liver, fatty fish, and eggs. And beta-carotene, which can turn to vitamin A in the body, is naturally occurring in green leafy vegetables as well as other colorful vegetables like broccoli, carrots, squash, and orange fruits like mangos, cantaloupes, and apricots. Vitamin A helps with immunity, organ function, reproductive health, and more. But because vitamin A is so readily available through diet, if you’re taking a multivitamin supplement, it may mean you’re getting too much vitamin A. And too much vitamin A can have serious health consequences—even throwing your hormones out of whack. Read more…