I eat a kilo of spinach a week, a couple of carrots, three bell peppers, around 2kg of broccoli, half a kilo of sprouts and assorted other vegetables (lettuce, spring onion, garlic, ginger, onion). I also have about ~450g of pork liver paté (which while 'high' in vitamin A, is a product only containing around ~40% liver), ~500g of chicken, 200g of beef, some sausage and a little cream/cheese.
For supplements I take a centrum multi-vitamin (probably not necessary), ~650/400 EPA/DHA of omega 3 fish oil, ~120/70 EPA/DHA of red krill oil, a vitamin B complex (doctor said I was a little low), 5000IU of vitamin D, 2200mg of K2 and 100mg of chelated magnesium.
My concern is: I have been getting some crazy hair shedding around an area on my scalp that I had surgery starting around 8 months ago (surgery was a little over 5 years ago), one of the causes of this has been listed as high vitamin A.
It was around the same time I started taking Spirulina (pretty high in vitamin A) so I got rid of them.
I've done some reading, but it's a little confusing with the retinol and beta-carotene forms of vitamin A, the RDA and upper intake levels of each, and how they relate to each other.
TL;DR: is it even possible unless I'm eating polar bear liver wrapped in spinach that following a regular 3/4 vegetable 1/4 meat diet that I'd even have to worry about vitamin A being too high?
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