{"id":352686,"date":"2025-12-16T23:09:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T23:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/352686\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T23:09:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T23:09:18","slug":"how-healthy-supplements-and-vitamins-can-sneakily-hurt-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/352686\/","title":{"rendered":"How \u201chealthy\u201d supplements and vitamins can sneakily hurt you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all love the idea of supplements, right? A little pill here, a powder there, and suddenly we\u2019re healthier, stronger, or more energized. But here\u2019s the catch: some of these so-called \u201chealthy\u201d supplements can quietly take a toll on your kidneys. And the scary part? Your kidneys won\u2019t scream for help at first, they just get stressed silently while you feel perfectly fine.<br \/>Your kidneys are like your body\u2019s natural filters. They work nonstop to remove waste, extra vitamins, minerals, and even some plant compounds from your blood. When you pile on supplements, especially in high doses, for long periods, or in tricky combinations, it can overload these filters. This can directly hurt kidney tissue, trigger allergic or inflammatory reactions in the kidneys and flood your kidneys with too much potassium, phosphorus, or even heavy metals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We all love the idea of supplements, right? A little pill here, a powder there, and suddenly we\u2019re&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[64,63,137,173172,193705,193703,193704,165949,532],"class_list":{"0":"post-352686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-kidney-damage","12":"tag-kidney-damage-reasons","13":"tag-kidney-damage-supplements","14":"tag-kidney-damage-vitamins","15":"tag-kidney-health","16":"tag-nutrition"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}