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 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.