About two months ago, I asked one of my friends if he ever felt real-real tired. He said yes and his doctor after doing some blood work, recommended that he get some vitamin D. He got the vitamin D and said it has helped him regain his lost energy.
After hearing that, I decided to try some organic vitamins. I did some research and found out that organic vitamins absorb into the body much faster and way more effectively than laboratory produced vitamins. Organic vitamins are made out of real food. I decided to try a multivitamin from Costco.
After about 5 days of taking the vitamin once a day, my life has completely changed. No longer do I wake up in the morning feeling exhausted. I'm talking about a night and day difference in the way I feel. This has been a life changing experience for me.
This post is in no way meant to be an advertisement for Costco. I'm sure there are other organic vitamins on the market that are just as good. I just happened to try the one from Costco out of convenience. I hope this information can be help someone out. I just don't feel right about keeping this information to myself. The vitamins are about $20 per bottle and you get an 80 day supply. Today I went and got my 2nd bottle.
My vitamin D was so low, and I took prescription Vit D for almost a year- it was a 3 when you should be in 80-90 range- after a year it went to a 19. a personal trainer said, get a tanning bed sub and start tanning in the lowest cost bed for about 3-5 minutes a day- not enough to tan, but enough to get Vit D- after about 6 months my Vit D is now in the high 40 range... I am glad to here about this Costco Vitamin, my niece stays worn out and tired and HURTING- they have run her through so many tests, and it leaves Fibromyalgia as the only thing left- my mom had fibro so bad- I will go get her these, this weekend- we have tried everything else... so why not- thanks for sharing- and yes I live with her family so it is a family affair!! And I will be buying me some too- I would love to lose the 60 bucks a month payment for a 3 minute tan a week
My wife who has MS was taking 10,000 IU a day in an attempt to get her level to 70 from the 48 it was at. After a few months it had barely budged. I totally removed all grain from my diet per Dr William Davis’s Wheat Belly and Dr David Perlmutter’s Grain Brain and since I do all of the cooking so did my wife. After several weeks she a pre Dr visit blood draw…. They office called and said “go the the emergency room, your wife’s Vit D level is at a toxic level of 154”. There is a connection between grains, possibly only American crap grain? that blocks the proper metabolism of dietary or supplemental Vit D. Also 154 is only higher than the flawed RDA and is by no means toxic. Levels north of 1500 have been well tolerated.
I still eat grains and have no issues maintaining a level of 75 while taking around 2-4k IU/day. However I don't tend to take that vitamin D pill at the same time as eating bread (usually I eat a cheese stick as fat helps absorb vitamin D) so maybe there could be a competition issue.
It’s wheat in particular as I understand it. Do you work outside by chance and live in the southern half of the country? Apparently wheat can disrupt the proper assignment of skin acquired D from sunlight.
No I live in the Midwest and work indoors, in the winter I might get practically no sunlight during the week as it's dark when I leave for work and dark when I leave the office, especially when bundled up.
Vitamin D is actually a hormone with 100s of uses in the body.
Yep, the vitamin part of the name is an old leftover from when we didn't know that our skin makes it. I wonder when it will eventually get renamed as a lot of others long ago had the vitamin part of their names dropped (hence why there are all these gaps in the naming like being no vitamin F, G, so on.)
Do you still have your gallbladder? Vitamin D is fat soluble and also the body makes it from cholesterol and sunlight, they never seem to tell people who have their gallbladder removed that their vitamin D level is going to tank due to greatly reduced ability to digest fats.
Still have my gallbladder and mine tanked a few years ago now, been taking supplements every since and spending a bit more time outside, when the weather is nice. Was a big difference in energy levels after taking supplements for a month or so.