How much vitamin d do you take each day?
I’m a big believer in Vitamin D supplements beginning with this post I made way back in 2006:
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I heard about taking supplemental vitamin D several years back on the “This week in Tech - Security Now” podcast, of all things. It’s cheap, natural, so I figured what the heck. I went from getting 3 or 4 colds per year to zero colds per year. I take a single 5,000 IU D-3 capsule each day along with other vitamin supplements.
I’ve read you need vitamin A to fully utilize vitamin D. That means taking caretenoids the body can store.
I agree. I didn’t read through all the doses in each study there, but I suspect in general they are too skimpy. I read Dr. Mercola’s website a lot and he recommends getting one’s level up to 60-70 for general health, which for me takes about 7500 U a day of D3.
...and they tell diabetics to keep eating CARBS.
My God, these people need to be told to GO TO HELL.
I take it for the strengthening of bones property.If it does that at all, I’m happy.
I had no idea that there is people who think that taking D should turn your bones into Titanium.
Men with lower levels of Vitamin D are more likely to get prostate cancer. It has also been shown to slow the progress of metastatic prostate cancer; at least it has for me, along with some other supplements.
I take about 20,000 iu of Vitamin D every day. Metformin, 1,000/day, also helps for prostate cancer.
There is great evidence that Vitamin D is at least an indicator of something good, but it looks like it is really sunlight we need.
There’s always some nutrition fad going. The only thing I emphasize in nutrition is getting enough protein, and that doesn’t mean consuming it until it comes out my ears.
Vitamin D works it’s magic when the body is saturated with Vitamin K2 and vitamin B2. If you are not getting enough from your diet of each, through food or the conversion of K1 to K2 by various gut bacteria, then high dosages of vitamin D can become problematic and cause calcium to become very damaging to the vascular system. In addition, vitamin D must be properly sinthysized by your body to improve the arming of macrophages, which destroy pathogens.
To put it simply, vitamin D does not work best alone and taking high dosages without other necessary nutrients can become problematic. There is plenty of research highlighting this, which goes back many decades, but for some reason, chosen main stream researchers choose to ignore such facts and information.
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One problem is that doctors don’t usually order Vitamin D 3 hydroxy in your lab workup unless you ask for it. I did that about a year ago and found I very deficient in D 3 hydroxy. I always take it now. That and B 12 and Biotin for skin and hair. Seems to be working well.
I’m do 5,000IU twice a day and K2 200mg. I love our FReeper family.
It shows promise with MS, and possibly colon cancer, but look at the results for D and prostate - which makes two vitamins men may want to talk to their doctor about (Vit A and eversmoked, being the other)
don’t forget that D is fat-soluble, that is, you’re not going to pee out what your body can’t use, so definitely take care to have your levels monitored so you don’t add to your problems with getting kidney stones.
While it is very good to increase one’s intake of Vitamin D3, I’ve been told that taking a concentrated for of the Vitamin actually reverses the intended effect. It is far better for the nutrient to be naturally balanced in one’s food, rather than as a pill or gel tab.
I’ve seen other advice recommending min 8000IU of D3 daily to others suggesting min of 400IU daily and it could be taken in 7X daily does once a week.
Apparently, there are risks of having D3 overdose. Also recommendations are made to have 30 min of sun exposure to the hands and chest, without sunscreen, daily to naturally produce the D3 in the blood stream.
Had younger women only taken this advice to go topless for 30 min during their lunch breaks they would have such stronger bones today,.....I would have encouraged them, but they would always think I had ulterior motives. Alas.
If you want the benefits of Vitamin D, get outside in the sun more.......
Hypes very rarely do.
Vitamin D is critical for people with M.S.
I believe in eating a diet which includes all necessary nutrients. It’s totally possible if it includes foods with added vitamins and minerals and uses foods that haven’t had all of the fiber and healthy parts processed out of them.
Not so fast there... When these guys talk about Vitamin D supplements they are talking about D2 which has only a portion of what D3 has, which is the WalMart available supplement. D2 is totally synthetic and contains those parts deemed beneficial by doctors a long time ago. I can attest to D3 at least preventing respiratory viruses. All my family take it through the winter and I work at night so I take it all year and none of us has had a cold or flu so long as we have been “on” it. Several women I know are no longer manic depressive after I got them started with D3. My daughter started on it and stopped taking Xanax a month later.
D3 is still not so good as getting a lot of sunshine but in the winter when the sun is at a low angle and one is dressed against the cold you don’t get that sunshine benefit from it. I don’t know about bones and cancer but it is the magic bullet for viruses and clinical depression.
I take an organic combo D3/K2 each day - 5k.
I’ve had fantastic success killing off the flu by taking 50k the first day I feel it coming.
Then 50k each day for up to 4 days. Plus fluids, plus garlic supplement.