COVID-19 Mortality Risk Correlates Inversely with Vitamin D3 Status
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OK med-anons, translate this into mg's. for me. How much should I be taking? (And yes, I also take Vitamin C, zinc and a host of other supplements prescribed by my bio-hormone doctor.
This depends on where you are located and what kind of work you do. If you work outdoors instead of in an office and you are living in say, Seattle WA, it would make a lot of difference.
Personally, I take 2000 IU from NOW brand. I am in the Midwest. If I live in Seattle, I would go for 5000 IU.
True, sis who is a garden junky, her Vit D levels were too high by the end of summer, she was outside tending for many hours a day. My Vit D had tanked about 6yrs ago and had been taking supplements every since and have had no problems with flu colds or coof another in my home had a tougher time with it and turned out their Vit D had tanked and has since been as well taking supplements of D. It is good to go ahead and have your levels checked before using Vit D, you dont want to over take it, Sis didn't even take any supplements and hers popped too high, heh. I guess if you dont get a lot of sun exposure and have not gotten it checked yet, a lower dose probably ok but, if you get plenty of sun every day, wouldn't bother unless you got it checked and it was still too low? Donno, just do know, good Idea to know where your levels are at, too much is as bad as too little.
"too much is as bad as too little" ~~ this is what the media pushes out with countless articles. As a result, people get gun shy and take 600-1000 IU's/day which does next to nothing.
I agree that you will get sick if you go crazy taking a ton of it. But I've listened to many people remark that they're not sure they've ever heard of anyone dying from Vit. D overdose. I even heard of someone taking the liquid form and accidently ingesting millions of IU's over a period of time and he got hospitalized, realized his calculation error, and then fully recovered.
Pharma articles constantly scare monger people into small doses because our low Vitamin D epidemic is good for their business.
They do the same with iodine. The RDA is 150mcg/day, that's just enough to keep you from developing goiter. I witnessed a direct change in myself then a friend after starting 6.25mg/day and it only took a couple days to notice the difference. Friend (marine veteran) had panic attacks and depression. He said it was like someone lifted a weight off him.
It is not like a drug overdose that would down you all of a sudden, more to do with it affecting certain organs over time, same with most Vit and other systems (adrenaline++, highblood pressure ++) in your body running too high or too low for too long. I hear what you are saying though, low dose should be fine for everyone unless a specific person has a reason to not take it, such as, they run high already. heh. Again, mine had tanked out years ago so they put me on the super high once a week dose for a couple weeks and I have been taking a higher dose since then, I do not go into the dr often but, last checked in the summer and my levels were doing good still.