Posted on 03/21/2015 2:39:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Nature Made is the brand of supplements I buy.
"Clinical enthusiasm for supplemental vitamin D has outpaced available evidence on its effectiveness," JoAnn E. Manson and Shari S. Bassuk of the Division of Preventive Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston wrote last week in the journal's online version.
This practice isn't totally harmless. You should be consuming 600 international units daily if you're between the ages of 1 and 70, and 800 IU each day if you're 71 or older, according to the Institute of Medicine, the health arm of the National Academcy of Sciences. (For a chart with a little more detail, see here.) These amounts are enough for 97.5 percent of U.S. and Canadian residents, according to the IOM. (Sunlight stimulates production of vitamin D for people in sunnier climes.)
Go above 4,000 IUs, unless there's a specific reason that you need that amount, and you risk kidney stones, calcification of blood vessels and possibly the very cardiovascular disease you were seeking to prevent, Manson said in an interview.
Do you get your vitamin d level tested?
My husband, self and a friend who played golf almost every day here in Arizona were also diagnosed being D deficient. Go figure.
I've been taking high doses for at least five years now. I had been taking 30,000IU every day and recently had lab work that included vitamin D level. My doctor said that for the first time ever, I had enough vitamin D and in fact was a little on the high side. He suggested I back off to 20,000IU daily. I have.
See my post #26.
What did your doctor consider too high, if you don’t mind sharing.
I’ve been taking 2000 once a day. I guess that’s too low.
Who made that rule up?
/johnny
I take 2000 IU of natural source liquid cap D3 a day ... use to take 4000 IU .... maybe I should up that.
Wow. I am surprised at that. I thought the body would convert sufficient vitamin d if you got plenty of sun on your skin.
I had no idea. I do know that it’s a good way to prevent recurring shingles, at least for me.
Finally.
All adults should take 10,000 iu a day especially if there are chronic illnesses or you want CANCER prevention. More if actively Ill. Skip days where you get plenty of sun on about half your body (wearing shorts sleeves and shorts, for example). Don’t wear sunscreen before you go out into the sun. Put it on when you know you would burn, anywhere from 30 To 120 mins into your sun exposure -— you know how well your skin responds to the sun. But get a little on it with NO protection first.
I take 15,000 and it keeps me in the high 80s. When I was taking only 10,000 I couldn’t get it over 50. Even in SoCal where daily I get at least a little sun. Everyone is different.
I have the lab result right here. It says normal range is 32.0 - 100.0 (units are ng/ml) My reading was 117.2.
I have to leave now...I will answer any questions later.
Just take your shirt off and go outside for 30 minutes
Did you read that on a bumper sticker, or is it just obvious to you that the quality of our food and water are just as high, and our pollutant exposures are just as low, as they were 5,000 years ago?
Be sure to add K2 to make sure that the D3 does what it is supposed to do. If you don’t get a lot of dark green leafy veggies, the K2 is essential.
I can’t really do that. We still have a foot and a half of snow on the ground.
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