BREAKING: Groundbreaking Research Finds Vitamin D Supplementation SIGNIFICANTLY DECREASES COVID-19 Mortality
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"IMPORTANT: Taking too much Vitamin D can cause toxicity which can lead to nausea and vomiting, weakness, frequent urination and even kidney problems if left untreated, Mayo Clinic warns."
This can not be overstated. Vitamin D supplementation must be done with regular blood labs.
But THIS is way overstated and untrue. Mayo=CDC, AMA, Big Pharma...who routinely withold cures from the sheeple.
Not all science is bad. Also it is good to follow a common sense rule: More is not always better in supplements. Sunshine is best. Also supplement companies can be/are just as greedy as big pharma.
RESEARCH.
Zinc is good, but too much depletes copper stores in cells. Copper is important also for immune health.
This is all true but science can be used for good OR evil so people have to do their own research and determine their own answers so they can make well-informed decisions concerning their own health. Unfortunately science has been used to cause many disastrous situations for people. When people and money or power are involved it can be very bad for uninformed people. I actually love medicine and science but I hate the lies and abuses that have been perpetuated in the name of science or medicine. With the information available to people today there really is no excuse for ignorance.
Your statement about sunshine is best for Vitamin D is only valid for those able to absorb it properly. Otherwise it is wise to recognize the problem and supplement. My sister was schizophrenic but megadoses of B3 made her able to live normally. Things are just not always hard and fast. The people that set vitamin limits don't have a clue about vitamins and safe doses because they usually have a vested interest in making money off of drugs. We now see population control and other factors also dictate what info is given. .
I somehow agree with all three of you. :)
I think if my tinfoil hat is on correctly, "they" constantly mention the threat of ODing to scare people away from supplementing with D. Because they are ghouls who want you dead.
So take ~10,000 IU a day of good (non-China) Vitamin D, get out in the sunshine between 10PM and 3PM for ~30 mins a day, get yourself tested to know your level, and try to eat some oily fish and eggs as much as you can.
Info on too much vitamin D was out long before covid. What is questionable is what CDC and others put out regarding ivermectin, or other treatments that don't profit big Pharma.
The blood labs are not to monitor toxicity, but to verify absorption. That is far more likely to be a problem than toxicity. You avoid toxicity primarily by controlling the dose.
Richard Carmona mentioned that it took 50,000 IU a day for two months to generate symptoms of toxicity. Undoubtedly less for children, and they resist COVID much better anyway, so they probably don't need therapeutic doses. I've seen up to 15,000 IU recommended for specific adults during pandemic outbreaks, but 2,000 to 6,000 a day is usually sufficient.
You're talking about dosages...and it's these higher dosages which can reach unsafe/unhealthy levels. 6,000 IU daily can EASILY lead to an unsafe level. I am D3 deficient, and I reached an unsafe level on 5,000 IU daily.
One can not say globally that "50,000 IU a day for two months..." etc., etc. is what's required. That immediately says to me "quack." Everyone has different serum levels, you simply can not make a catch-all statement like that. If someone is D3 deficient, then that type of supplementation might be OK. But if they are NOT deficient, then this would be problematic.
All I'm saying is, do this type of supplementation with blood labs. Optimal range is 50-75...anything more than that is not helpful, and can be harmful over the long term.
Well, Richard Carmona, MD, MPH is the former Surgeon General of the United States, and a professor of public health at the University of Arizona. He's hardly a "quack." He reported various facts, including the results of a research study that found which doses typically led to toxicity.
I conceded that blood labs can be helpful. My sister had access to a good physician, and was unable for a long time to raise her levels on 6000 IU per day. It was the sunshine this summer that finally got her enough Vitamin D to relieve the inflammation that was keeping her intestines from absorbing her dietary Vitamin D! She's most likely taking less than 6000 IU now. And I certainly hope you're taking less than the 5000 IU you found to be toxic.
Let's hope none of us acquire a serious COVID infection this winter.
See, this is the thing. I was only urging those who choose to supplement with D3 to do so with the knowledge of some labs under their belt. I am also being treated for D3 deficiency, as a result of an autoimmune disorder, and know how tricky it is to supplement in the right increment to bring the number into the proper range.
I am deficient, and a daily dose of 5,000 was enough to put me well above the upper limits. I dropped the daily dose to 1,000 IU, and that seems to be right for me.
Everyone is different. Be wary of catch-all advise, and supplement with this quasi-hormone, at least with higher dosages, under a doctor's recommendation.
Do we really know the optimal range or has that been suppressed like cancer cures?
On the vitaminD4all website, most of the doctors recommended either 2000 or 4000 units per day. They also indicated the doses they personally take, and at least one was taking 15,000 IU per day.
Remember that for 50 years the FDA claimed 400 IU was enough, and warned about toxicity above that. So we've made remarkable progress, really in the last 20 years.
Be gone you!
Fuck Mayo.
too much = greater than 15000 iu /day
5000 -10000 is fine