As a side note. The “hammer” 50,000 iu of Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) (prescribed to many vets from what I’ve seen) has a very good possibility of giving one Hypercalcemia.
I was pretty livid about getting Hypercalcemia and reading about how rat poison works. The mechanism is calcium is leached out of your bones and enters your blood stream. Whole bone pain was the symptom.
“how rat poison works. The mechanism is calcium is leached out of your bones and enters your blood stream”:
indeed ... when folks that were prescribed warfarin for permanent afib and other purposes started dropping like flies from infarct heart attacks, it triggered research that showed that warfarin destroyed vitamin K2 ... subsequent research showed that vitamin K2 was essential for maintaining the calcium balance in the body, keeping calcium in the bones and out of the tissues, specifically out of the arteries ... the original research involved testing with supplementing with milligram quantities of vitamin K2, but subsequent research showed microgram quantities were effective ...
doctors in the know prescribe (non-prescription) vitamin K2 (MK-7 form) for osteopenia/osteoporosis and for preventing calcium plaques in the arteries ... personally, i take 360 micrograms of Jarrow vitamin K2 MK-7, half in the morning and half at night ... also take pantethine (NOT pantothenic acid) ...