Flushed Vitamin
So this morning I had my first experience with the term ‘Flush-Free’.
Man was it riveting.
I woke about 5:40 a.m. at the studio.
By 5:55 I was outdoors and shoveling the parking lot of the night’s snow for my first round of personal training sessions at 6… apparently plows in my lot don’t start until 7:45 😉
After 20 minutes of shoveling I began with our first client, Caitlin. I set her up with her first couple exercises then approached the studio fridge to ingest my vitamins.
Well, about 20 minutes after I began to feel this burning session throughout my skull; a serious internal burning.
I lifted my black Jordan winter cap to release the heat but as it turned out, it didn’t help much.
Next I began rationalizing how this came over me.
After all, my morning thus far consisted of changing clothes, brushing my teeth, drinking water, shoveling, chewing on 10 grams of cashews and swallowing my normal vitamins.
Then during Caitlin’s set of decline bench rotational abdominal work I noticed my neck turned bright red and so were my arms.
AH-HA!
My first experience with flushing!!
I had quickly realized that with my last purchase of pills, I decided on trying new brands of melatonin, multi-vitamin and niacin.
The multi-certainly was not the culprit as I’d taken it a few times throughout the week.
The melatonin I had already consumed a few times this week.
The niacin however I only consumed twice; once before falling sleep on Wednesday and this morning, Friday.
Consuming it prior to sleep any flushing I did not notice as I was already, well, sleeping.
This morning holy shit… did I notice it.
It looked as though I was sunburned over my entire body; pretty funny actually.
Here are some pictures of my flushing: 30 minutes post first burning sensation.
My neck is beet-red!
I have a sunburn... in Massachusetts... in January
Of course there is nothing vitally wrong with my flushing it was just my reaction to this particular company’s niacin (Nature’s Bounty).
Thankfully I have another niacin brand in my fridge (which is ironically flush-free – Nature Made) so I should be all set.
Funny though even the best of us get caught up in the flush sometimes 😉
Leading my life to help you live the dream,
Rob