How much vitamin D you need to take is determined by how much sun you get and how you get from food or supplements. Each person's body handles both of those variables differently. For instance, the darker the natural color of your skin, the less it translates sun exposure to vitamin D. Also, each person absorbs supplements vitamin differently. For instance, several years ago my doctor told me that my Vitamin D level was too low and I needed to get more sun or take supplements. So I started taking 2000 IU of Vitamin D per day. Supposedly, that is 250% of what I needed. On my last blood test, my vitamin D level was 52, barely within the normal range. Accordingly, my doctor told me to double the amount, because my body was not absorbing the supplement very well.
This analysis basically says that if your level of Vitamin D is 50 ng/ml or more, you are extremely unlikely to die from Covid-19. It is of course more important for those who are vulnerable - the elderly, the obese, people with diabetes - but everyone can benefit from it.
Decrease your risk of covid-19 death to close to zero if you hit 50ng,/ml blood level D3. How?
“1. Optimum vitamin D dosage without blood test
Take the following daily vitamin D dose as a dietary supplement:
Babies up to the first year………..400 IU Children one year and up……….1000 IU Adolescents……….……….…………..1000 IU per 12 kilograms of bodyweight Adults……….……….……………………5000 IU* Pregnant women……….……….…..4000 IU bis 6000 IU * based on an average body weight of 70 kilogram
This dose is recommended by experts in order to achieve the optimum 25(OH)D value of 60 ng/ml and permanently maintain this level.
Since this recommendation for vitamin D lies within the safe zone and this dose has never resulted in side effects, it can be taken without requiring a blood test.
This dose can be taken daily throughout the year, except for individuals who spend 15-20 minutes in the sun (exposing at least the naked upper body to the sun, preferably the whole body) during the early afternoon three times or more per week. For these individuals, the exposure to sunlight means the body produces sufficient vitamin D in the skin.
There are numerous recommendations which make taking vitamin D unnecessarily complicated. But if you follow the above dosage and have your 25(OH)D tested after 3 months, you’ll see how easy it can be to get your vitamin D levels into the optimal range.
Important note: If you regularly take vitamin D in form of a dietary supplement, for low vitamin D intake you should additionally take 100 mcg of vitamin K2 daily or, if you take 5,000 IU of vitamin D or more per day, take 200 mcg of vitamin K2 additionally each day, to ensure that calcium absorbed by vitamin D is not deposited in the arteries.”
https://www.vitaminexpress.org/en/vitamin-d-dosage-information
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