Let's not spread bad info, Cholecaliciferol is the same hormone that your body makes naturally under sun light. Producing it in a lab and taking it as a supplement, assuming there is nothing else in the pill except a simple fat like olive oil which is used to increase absorption rate, then it is perfectly fine to take in normal quantities.
Just to be extra clear, producing synthetic Cholecaliciferol in a lab doesn't automatically make it some toxic material that will hurt you. That's not how chemistry works. Though having said that you do need to ensure you're taking a pure supplement because not every company producing supplements is trustworthy so do your research and ensure the company is providing some kind of independent verification of their products.
You would have to take a stupidly high amount (50k ui+) daily and then not go out in the sun for it to actually cause any problems, excess vitamin D intake is actually negated by sun exposure at normal (read safe) dosage levels.
A lot of research shows that depending on local climate, average duration of daily sun exposure, skin tone, weight, and even if you've been sick recently all make a difference in the amount of vitamin D your body needs for it to function normally. Dark skin doesn't produce the hormone as much as fair skin, heavier people also produce less, if you've been sick then vitamin D is used with white blood cells to help fight infection and is thus used up and gets depleted.
The currently recommended dosage that gets mentioned (400-600 ui daily) is based on research done all the way back in the 1920s for kids to avoid rickets and the suggested daily amount has not been re-investigated since then because they don't care about simple cheap effective medicine.
Yeah 400-600 is nothing and bare minimum for survival. I take at least 4000 a day on average as here in the winter I get almost no time in the sun since it's dark when I leave for the office and dark when I leave the office, recently my dad's doc recommended that he take 10,000 a day until his next test as he had low levels this winter. Vitamin D3 is used by the body for many things like generating testosterone, if anything there's a reason right there why they keep telling you that you don't need more vitamin D.
Magnesium is another one where the RDA is too low. They say 400mg/day but I was still getting woken up at night by leg cramps. I found a calculator that said for my body weight I should be taking around 700mg/day, that amount fixed my issue.
Your correct!!
The RDA is WAY too low. It would be impossible to get your levels to 100.
I have been taking 15000 IU in the summer and 20000 in the winter here in Houston. My last test blood levels were 160+. I haven’t had my usual strep and allergies since 2019 when I started. No clot shot and a mild case of Covid in 2021. I am 76.
Good measured response. Thank you. I just came from a Telegram chat positing the polar opposite. There are characters there, many are substackers, who are also pushing all kinds of no virus / no pathogens / no contagion narratives, as well as anti-supplement content. Some of it is compelling and measured, and of course some is slightly shrill and unhinged.
You ignorance of biochemistry is showing. It's the same molecule that your body makes and it doesn't know or care if it's "synthetic" just like your car doesn't care which gas station you got gasoline from (also BTW here's some info from a guy who's worked in oil for over a decade, all gas stations are using a random blend from all brands it's just the way that the pipelines they share work.)
Exactly. That shit is so fucking toxic you couldn’t pay me enough money to take it. It’s not even a vitamin it’s a hormone that the body produces.
Cholecaliciferol is fucking rat poison chemical in D-con rat poison and they put that shit in there and call it a vitamin
Let's not spread bad info, Cholecaliciferol is the same hormone that your body makes naturally under sun light. Producing it in a lab and taking it as a supplement, assuming there is nothing else in the pill except a simple fat like olive oil which is used to increase absorption rate, then it is perfectly fine to take in normal quantities.
Just to be extra clear, producing synthetic Cholecaliciferol in a lab doesn't automatically make it some toxic material that will hurt you. That's not how chemistry works. Though having said that you do need to ensure you're taking a pure supplement because not every company producing supplements is trustworthy so do your research and ensure the company is providing some kind of independent verification of their products.
You would have to take a stupidly high amount (50k ui+) daily and then not go out in the sun for it to actually cause any problems, excess vitamin D intake is actually negated by sun exposure at normal (read safe) dosage levels.
A lot of research shows that depending on local climate, average duration of daily sun exposure, skin tone, weight, and even if you've been sick recently all make a difference in the amount of vitamin D your body needs for it to function normally. Dark skin doesn't produce the hormone as much as fair skin, heavier people also produce less, if you've been sick then vitamin D is used with white blood cells to help fight infection and is thus used up and gets depleted.
The currently recommended dosage that gets mentioned (400-600 ui daily) is based on research done all the way back in the 1920s for kids to avoid rickets and the suggested daily amount has not been re-investigated since then because they don't care about simple cheap effective medicine.
This article is a hit piece, don't fall pray.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfZpLllgd5Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCAvvZXUW08
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp21CPCVNAw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hO7fniCbmw
Yeah 400-600 is nothing and bare minimum for survival. I take at least 4000 a day on average as here in the winter I get almost no time in the sun since it's dark when I leave for the office and dark when I leave the office, recently my dad's doc recommended that he take 10,000 a day until his next test as he had low levels this winter. Vitamin D3 is used by the body for many things like generating testosterone, if anything there's a reason right there why they keep telling you that you don't need more vitamin D.
Magnesium is another one where the RDA is too low. They say 400mg/day but I was still getting woken up at night by leg cramps. I found a calculator that said for my body weight I should be taking around 700mg/day, that amount fixed my issue.
Your correct!! The RDA is WAY too low. It would be impossible to get your levels to 100. I have been taking 15000 IU in the summer and 20000 in the winter here in Houston. My last test blood levels were 160+. I haven’t had my usual strep and allergies since 2019 when I started. No clot shot and a mild case of Covid in 2021. I am 76.
Good measured response. Thank you. I just came from a Telegram chat positing the polar opposite. There are characters there, many are substackers, who are also pushing all kinds of no virus / no pathogens / no contagion narratives, as well as anti-supplement content. Some of it is compelling and measured, and of course some is slightly shrill and unhinged.
This has a list of who’s who and what’s what in that particular echo chamber - https://open.substack.com/pub/dpl003/p/supplements-medicine-and-food-the?r=pezuu&utm_medium=ios - which only serves to reinforce the need for continued discernment, research, corroboration and keeping an open mind (but not so much that one’s brain falls to the floor…)
You ignorance of biochemistry is showing. It's the same molecule that your body makes and it doesn't know or care if it's "synthetic" just like your car doesn't care which gas station you got gasoline from (also BTW here's some info from a guy who's worked in oil for over a decade, all gas stations are using a random blend from all brands it's just the way that the pipelines they share work.)
https://youtu.be/UhVamRiztPg?si=slI2AY-0o6E3UeWj