Man dies of vitamin D toxicity — experts warn the risk of overdose is real
Experts are sounding the alarm after a man recently died from a vitamin D overdose. David Mitchener, 89, passed away in suburban London, England, after taking high levels of the supplement for nine…
Vitamin D comes from the sun. He didn't die from a vitamin D overdose, he died from taking too much of something in a bottle with a label that said Vitamin D..
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.
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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…)