Posted on 02/04/2012 12:51:48 PM PST by neverdem
I take 10,000 IU daily and can’t remember the last time that I was sick. I started taking it when my PSA was at 5.6 and today it is 0.2.
That's only one potential cause of many, obviously.
what else?
Wisconsin residents: this is not what you think! (WI-IL joke)
Actually I saw the author took one sentence to note most of the problems are not having enough. But the whole slant of the article is too much. This just falls along the same lines of other articles that are anti-supplement, people cant be trusted to take care of themselves with supplements crap.
Bottom line - supplements are far safer than OTC and prescription drugs, hands down. You can take a whole bottle of vitamin D and it won’t kill you. You can’t say the same for regular tylenol. Or just about any other drug. Supplements are far safer, and have far fewer and milder side effects, if any. Most you pee the excess out. Not so with drugs.
You were pinged for two reasons. First, there can be too much of a good thing, i.e. vitamin D. Second, for the newer members of the diabetes list, there can be too little of a good thing, i.e. vitamin D. The blood test is called serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D. You may find variations on that, e.g. 25-hydroxyvitamin D, 25hydroxyvitamin D, 25-hydroxyvitaminD, 25hydroxyvitaminD, etc.
I also would like to know the safe dosage
God knew what He was doing when He made food, and added vitamins in very, very small doses.
Frankly, I don’t find this report at all persuasive. There are numerous benefits to taking vitamin D, and this article does not persuade me of the contrary.
The effect being investigated is said to be “extremely unusual, occurring in just 291 of the 132,000 people (0.2%) included in the study.” Zero point two percent. I would imagine that that is less than the margin of error.
Not only that, but they never explain what “excessive” means. I take about 4,000 i.u. daily in the winter, and I doubt that that is excessive, although it is above the recommended dosage—which was based on research from ten or twenty years ago, and very cautious as well. And I gather from some of the comments that excessive is probably, well, quite a lot more than that.
Sounds suspiciously like a Big Pharma scare story to me.
Don’t believe this. Or, if it’s true, the percentage of people affected is so low it doesn’t make a difference.
I have been taking 5000IU of D3 per day for years. The only side effect I’ve noticed is a complete lack of illness. My Dr. thinks I’m nuts. But, then, he has a stake in my having to visit him when I’m sick.
White or chocolate?
Cue the little "That's racist" guy
You are not the only one! LOL
Tell I dug into the story.
Cause
AF is linked to several cardiac causes, but may occur in otherwise normal hearts. Known associations include:[citation needed]
Hypertension (High blood pressure)
Primary heart diseases including coronary artery disease, mitral stenosis (e.g. due to rheumatic heart disease or mitral valve prolapse), mitral regurgitation, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), pericarditis, congenital heart disease, previous heart surgery
Lung diseases (such as pneumonia, lung cancer, pulmonary embolism, sarcoidosis)
Excessive alcohol consumption (”binge drinking” or “holiday heart syndrome”). Even otherwise healthy middle-aged women who consumed more than 2 drinks daily were 60% more likely to develop AF.[10]
Hyperthyroidism
Carbon monoxide poisoning
Dual-chamber pacemakers in the presence of normal atrioventricular conduction.[11]
A family history of AF may increase the risk of AF. A study of more than 2,200 AF patients found that 30 per cent had parents with AF.[12] Various genetic mutations may be responsible.[13][14]
Friedreich’s ataxia
I would add rapid hypertensive medication titration to the above Wikipedia list.
I have a mild cold right now. I don’t remember the last cold I had but it’s been quite a while. I have taken 5000 IU Vit. D3 for 3 years.
Yeah, you can get sick, but with your blood d at 60 you won’t unless it’s really infectious or you’re run down a little. My athlete son got hit with a stomach bug too.
I always wonder why docs never advise vit d. Not even for children who are constantly sick. It really helps.
bfl
You have to go get a blood test first. Then add some supplementation if it’s low. Then after a couple months, go test again. Adjust your dose if you start getting a lot of sun too.
Thanks for the ping. I have suspected that vitamin D may adversely effect the heart. I sure hope they do more research into this since so many docs recommend this supplement to their patients.
Short of carbon monoxide poisoning, everything on that list is caused by mag deficiency. Magnesium makes approximately 350 other nutrients, enzymes, etc., work in your body. We are almost ALL deficient in mg as they no longer fertilize with it, we drink too much filtered water and we eat too much processed food.
There is a fantastic book out by Dr. Carolyn Dean called ‘The Magnesium Miracle’ that really gets deep into the benefits of mag.
I know the tendancy for some is to minimize it’s positive effects but I can tell you the list of every day ailments many of us suffer from are directly related to low mg.
My doctor is in a group that recommends Vit D and even sells it in 1500 unit gel caps over their counter at check out
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