BREAKING: Groundbreaking Research Finds Vitamin D Supplementation SIGNIFICANTLY DECREASES COVID-19 Mortality
(www.thewashingtongazette.com)
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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.
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.
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.