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My doc prescribed a 50,000i.u. gel capsule, twice a week for me, when my bloodwork showed that my calcium and vitamin D were in the toilet last fall. (I have other health issues, thyroid CA and Lupus). My bone pain is significantly reduced since I started taking the high-dose D in December, probably because all the calcium I am taking is able to be utilized by my body.

The prescription is relatively inexpensive, less than $20 for three months.

Best of luck with getting those minerals back up to par.

Funny, doctors say lay off dairy products to reduce fat and cholesterol. Then again, I don't prefer broccoli and greens for breakfast neither.

My thyroid quit a few years back and joint pain has been an issue for me at times too. I ain't giving up my 2% milk, cheese, and ice cream, period.

Lupus? Vitamin D? Not a good idea. Vitamin D makes you feel better because it deactives the immune system, not activates it. You have low vitamin D,25 (the version you eat) because it's being converted to D,1,25 (the active metabolite) at an uncontrolled rate due to the Lupus. Low levels of D,25 often indicate high D,1,25 and D,1,25 has toxic effects (see: the toxicity section in this link

You might as well be taking prednisone, it's chemical structure is very close to that of vitamin D, and it's cheaper and more effective. It's also more dangerous because it is more effective at suppressing the immune system.

If you really want to cure your Lupus and thyroid troubles, go to the Marshall Protocol site. The auto-immune diseases are an infection of the immune system by one (or usually more) pathogens. A long course of low-dose antibiotics is a cure.

The science in the cancer/Vitamin D link is statistical, they don't know what it actually does. We know that cancer needs inflammation to get started, so if you suppress the inflammation a bit you delay the cancer a bit. It would probably work with prednisone too. However, it's far better to get rid of the underlying inflammation.

This works - it cured my sarcoid, and the complications of sarcoid which included diabetes.

If you are a computer science type, you can look up the genomic modelling used by the MP folks to find out exactly what vitamin-D does with the various nuclear receptors in the human cell. It isn't an antibiotic, and it doesn't activate the immune system. Vitamin D,1,25 activates the immune system. The kidneys in a healthy person keep levels of both in tight control. In a person with auto-immune troubles, the pathogens cause the levels to go wild, rapidly converting D,25 to D,1,25, and the high D,1,25 (or D2 and D3 in some texts) causes many of the common autoimmune symptoms.

So, low vitamin-D levels are a cause of the problems, but a leading symptom of the underlying disease.

The science is layed out in a talk linked to by this page.

The science behind the MP is not based on th e statistical correlation==causation paradigm, but on an analytical study of how vitamin-D can interact with the various nuclear cell receptors. The studies also covered how the antibiotics used affect the RNA of the pathogens, and how ARBs (angiotension-receptor-blockers) activate the immune system, and block the effects of D,1,25. We geeks have been waiting for the results of all that computing power used by the genomic modelling software, and here it is. See this page for a short video of one of the study results.