[ExTexasRedhead]

I didn’t see where it states how much Vitamin D you’re supposed to take.

[goodnesswins]

Get your Vit D levels tested....then you’ll know....I think the test is Vit D(OH) something or other.. here’s some info...• If you totally avoid the sun, recent research indicates you need about 4,000 units of vitamin D a day. Which means you can’t get enough vitamin D from milk (unless you drink 40 glasses a day) or from a multivitamin (unless you take about 10 tablets a day), neither of which is recommended.
• Most of us make about 20,000 units of vitamin D after about 20 minutes of summer sun. This is about 100 times more vitamin D than the government says you need every day.
• The only way to be sure you have adequate levels of vitamin D in your blood is to regularly go into the sun, use a sun bed (avoiding sunburn), or have your physician administer a 25 hydroxyvitamin D test. Optimal levels are around 50 ng/mL (125 nM/L).
• If you don’t get vitamin D the way Mother Nature intended, from sunshine, you need to take supplemental vitamin D3 cholecalciferol. Since most of us get a lot more vitamin D from sunshine than we realize, most of us need about 2,000 units a day extra.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

“I didn’t see where it states how much Vitamin D you’re supposed to take.”

If you look at various multivitamin bottle labels, you’ll see contents of somewhere between 400 and 800 units, 600 being 150% of reco daily use. I have heard claims that between 20 and 60 minutes in the sun can generate between 5000 and 15000 units. Which is quasi-unbelievable to me, but I am not a biochemist nor a nutritionist so I don’t know. Point being, the vitamin D3 advocates say that type of level (5000+) is what’s called for.

I bought some of this a short while ago, this was about the cheapest source I found, FWIW.

http://www.iherb.com/Vitamin-D

[neverdem]

I didn’t see where it states how much Vitamin D you’re supposed to take.

I didn't either. I guess the point was to shine some light on our ignorance about vitamin D, inflammation, inflammatory response and immunology with respect to macrophages and their transformation to foam cells in vitamin D deficiency states. Macrophages are like the infantry in your immune system's army of white blood cells. It's called pathophysiology, a combined term from pathology and physiology.

I'm not diabetic. I take a Vitamin D3 supplement with 1000 international units(IU) of D3 and a multivitamin that includes 400 IU of D2. If you get plenty of sunshine, you probably get all of the vitamin D that you need.

[itsahoot]

I didn’t see where it states how much Vitamin D you’re supposed to take.

Excess Vitamin D makes your doctor think you have cancer, or hypothyroidism. Mad me quit taking it.