Posted on 09/17/2011 7:12:02 PM PDT by decimon
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite some research linking low vitamin D levels to heart disease, a new study suggests that lacking D does not increase one's risk of an irregular heartbeat known as atrial fibrillation.
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"I think the study was done well," said Dr. Michal Melamed, who studies vitamin D at the Einstein School of Medicine in New York and was not involved in the research. It shows that this one vitamin doesn't have an effect on all heart diseases, which is a good thing, she said.
A 2008 study of the same group of Framingham participants found that vitamin D levels were associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease.
"We think that low vitamin D affects the architecture of the heart, but I'm not sure that it affects the electrical system of the heart," Melamed told Reuters Health.
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Hawthorn berry, check it.
My endocrinologist has me on 2000 mg of Vitamin D because my levels were low.
Side effects
Overdose can cause cardiac arrhythmia and dangerously lower blood pressure. Milder side effects include nausea and sedation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crataegus
Please stop , your scaring me, and I'm all out of Valerian root.
My doctor has me on 50,000 IU's a week.
Vitamin D dosages are usually expressed in IU or micrograms. Milligrams would be lethal. I believe that 2,000IU is the maintenance level advocated by Dr. Holick.
Yep, I was just looking at the side effects yesterday! lol Going to skip it for a few days!
Please stop , your scaring me, and I'm all out of Valerian root.
I post these things to hopefully help people and not to kill them. You said to check hawthorn berry and I did and I see that they can be dangerous.
Why so high? Our doc said 1,000 - 2,000. I had read recently that it could help fatigue so I started taking 10,000 - 12,000, until I read yesterday about irregular heartbeats and a bunch of other things. So, I thought maybe I better cut back! lol
. . .let me ax you a question, "have you been taking hawthorn berry for 30 years and are you in perfect health?".
Much appreciated, too. You/we should really look into these things first. I had read that ashwagandha was good for boosting the metabolism. Looked into it and its looks very risky to me.
Nope. I posted a news article and nothing more.
. . .let me ax you a question, "have you been taking hawthorn berry for 30 years and are you in perfect health?".
My mental health is fine. So good that I don't post what appear to be drunken rants.
The prejudice is amazing, it's like it's ok to make a movie White men Can't Jump, but my script Black Men Can't Swim meets all kinds of resistance.
What you said! lol
I had been taking 4,000 IU's a day for about 18 months. My most recent blood tests show that my vitamin D was still way low...so, 50,000, we'll see.
I'm all for natural remedies and nutritional preventatives and all that stuff. But I want to see them studied for efficacy and for harmful effects.
Because I post a lot of this stuff I sometimes get asked for what I consider to be medical advice. That gives me a queasy feeling as I'm not at all qualified to give such advice. There are FReepers who are so qualified and they don't give specific medical advice at this remove.
Mine was low too. I have to go back soon so we’ll see if mine goes up. How long have you been taking 50,000?
Which words didn't you understand?
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