Posted on 08/21/2021 10:33:39 AM PDT by Signalman
How many taking Vitamin D have their blood levels tested? And if you’re tested, what blood level have you achieved with the dosage you’re using?
My Vitamin D story. Started taking a table of k2/D3 in 2007, which contains 1,000 IU of D3. First had a blood test about four years ago and blood level was 38.
Decided I wanted a higher level, then added a 5,000 IU softgel and took that all during the cold months. Achieved a level of 55. Since Covid, have been taking the 5,000 IU year round and my blood level has remained 55-60 the past three years.
My endocrinologist became my primary care doctor about 6-7 years ago when my family doctor left the state and moved south. I go for fasting bloodwork every six months before I see him. I'm due again in September. Many years ago my Gynecologist prescribed calcium tablets with Vitamin D. At some point, blood work revealed that I had very high levels of calcium in my system, and had to stop taking it. I was diagnosed with a hyper parathyroid, which I get tested for every six months. My calcium levels remain high, but my endocrinologist hasn't recommended surgery to remove it.
You may have to judge for yourself. Zinc makes me nauseous.
I run all over this place outside naked. Mor Vit D and it also keeps people a lot ways from me so double duty.
Take a 10 minute walk everyday. Quarantining WELL PEOPLE was probably one of the worst thing the “scientists”....like Fauci caused.
be sure to look at how muchelemental zinc has
some say 50 mg zinc but actually have about 10 mg
each different type zinc has different elemental...
https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Zinc-HealthProfessional/
example 220 mg zinc sulfate= 50 mg elemental zinc
you can also get an idea by coresponding minimum daily percentage
So, if you were, say, a nation trying to eliminate another country, let’s say nation “C” and country “A”, and the people of C were fat, ????
Article says “New Study” and then a few sentences later says “some information may be out of date”. No fooling. They put patients in the sun during the Spanish flu to boost D.
How many units in two to three gallons of milk a week?
So, how much vitamin D? I take 50,000 units twice a week.
That might be too much at 1 time, since your body wll flush out what it doesn’t use. Daily recommended is between 1000 and 4000 IU’s a day. I take 2000 IU’s a day with Vit C and Zinc. Seems to be a good regulation
“since your body wll flush out what it doesn’t use”
No it won’t. Vit D is fat soluble, not water soluble. But I agree, it sounds like too much.
Dr. Zelenko’s protocol:
Protocol for Low and Moderate Risk Patients:
Elemental Zinc 25mg 1 time a day
Vitamin D3 5000iu 1 time a day
Vitamin C 1000mg 1 time a day
Quercetin 500mg 1 time a day until a safe and efficacious vaccine becomes available
If Quercetin is unavailable, then use Epigallocatechin-gallate (EGCG) 400mg 1 time a day
Protocol for High Risk Patients:
Elemental Zinc 25mg once a day
Vitamin D3 5000iu 1 time a day
Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) 200mg 1 time a day for 5 days, then 1 time a week until a safe and efficacious vaccine becomes available
If HCQ is unavailable, then use the Protocol for Low and Moderate Risk Patients.
If you’re going to take much zinc for extended periods of time, get zinc that also includes copper. Taking a lot of zinc can deplete copper and that can cause problems.
Good to know, thanks :)
Do we need more than the recommended daily amount in order to get major benefits to the immune system? Like would the amount in a multi be good enough?
I believe minimum recomended zinc for adults is 11 mg zinc
I take about twice that...but I also take querecetin
if you take a lot of zinc you might think about copper
some zincs have a small amount of copper.
lots for you to read up on
depends how long you take it and what else you take..
im not a doctor
what you eat also is relevant vitamins are in food and different people eat different foods...
https://www.thorne.com/take-5-daily/article/supplementing-with-zinc-and-copper-a-balancing-act
56 posts, many on how much vitamin D to take.
Google search on vitamin D and covid found these:
Original article by Healthline has one study with 489 hospitalized patients, deficiency was 1.77 times higher to test positive for virus.
Another study by TrustedSource from University of Grenada in Spain has 1/50 with vitamin D treatment admitted to ICU, 13/26 without treatment admitted to ICU.
AARP references a September 2020 study by Meltzer has deficient people more likely to test positive. Page also references Spain study, and Brazil study that one high dose doesn’t affect severity.
https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2021/vitamin-d-covid.html
A study in PLOS ONE by Dr. Michael Holick of 235 patients had vitamin D sufficient patients 51.5% less likely to die than insufficient patients.
https://www.bumc.bu.edu/busm/2020/09/25/adequate-levels-of-vitamin-d-reduces-complications-death-among-covid-19-patients/
webmd says one study of those with low levels found a 7.2% chance of testing positive. [Worldometers as of 9/4/21 has 40.7M cases out of 591.5 tests = 6.9%, so about 5% higher.]
Black people who were just over the normal limit were two times more likely to test positive than those with “even higher levels”.
Another report suggests higher levels don’t lower risk of infection, hospitalization or severity.
A third study found that giving vitamin D to hospitalized patients with moderate to severe COVID-19 didn’t help their condition or reduce their hospital stay.
webmd doesn’t provide links to their studies
https://www.webmd.com/lung/vitamin-d-covid-19-what-to-know#1
Think of the barrage promoting vaccinations. Think of the cascade advocating masks. Then consider the embargo on vitamin D, which apparently reduces risks, for a relatively low cost with few complications.
57 and 58, fyi.
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