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January 24, 2021, 09:39:48 PM
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Now let's go to the point:
OK. So anyway. About this Vitamin D stuff. Yes. Very important stuff. Even better if your multivitamin has added Zinc.
I'm not familiar with mcg dosage as everything is IU over here, for the most part, and seems that 10mcg works out to about 400 IU. Not a heck of a lot of IU right there. The basic multivitamin I take contains 1000 IU as standard. I supplement with an additional 2000 IU Vitamin D capsule in the evenings, but the point of this post is, to issue a warning not to overdo it on your Vitamin D intake, as it can start to cause problems.
I was taking upwards of 6000 IU at the height of the zaniness last year, and my doctor noted my bloodwork starting getting out of range. Stuff specifically related to having too much Vitamin D in your system. Can start fucking up your bones and shit, or something. I don't know. I'm just some gay dude sent here from outer space.
3000 IU seems to be a reasonable upper-limit, but not sure it's affording me much additional protection beyond, say, 1000 IU that I would get in my morning multi anyway.
Point of this post: Vitamin D good, but don't take too much 'cuz it'll fuck yer shit up, yo.
Related: Also, spring will be upon us before we know it, and I'm looking forward to getting in some quality perineum sunning. But don't do it for more than 30 seconds a day. You'll really mess yourself up. Trust me. I'm a professional.
I'm betting something that your blood test results have nothing to do with vitamin D. Do you still have that blood test? See if what you were getting out of range was calcium. If it wasn't calcium, it has nothing to do with vitamin D. If it was calcium, you must have another problem because no one develops hypercalcemia by taking so little vitamin D.
I take between 20,000 and 30,000 daily during winter months and I haven't had any problems so far.
The maximum recommended dose is 800 IU, which was actually a miscalculation and should be 8,000 IU for the average person.
You can take much, much more dosage without anything happening to you. The only danger with mega doses of vitamin D is hypercalcemia. But typically hypercalcemia appears with blood vitamin D levels of 400 ng/ml, i.e. in people taking ingested amounts such as 100,000 IU or more. When they set the limit they took a safety margin and left it at 100 ng/ml. As you will see, the difference in safety margin is barbaric.
Some very rare cases may develop hypercalcemia above 100 ng/ml but because they have other previous problems, for example, kidney problems. That is why it is usually recommended that if you take more than 10,000 IU daily, a doctor should check your blood calcium levels, but just to be on the safe side, because almost 100% of the cases that take between 10 and 30,000 IU have no problems. From 30,000 IU daily long-term it would be more likely.
Anyway there are things that decrease the risk of developing hypercalcemia even taking mega doses, such as taking vitamin D with vitamin K2, or drinking plenty of water or reducing calcium intake.
Moreover, hypercalcemia, which is the danger that the pharmaceutical industry wants to scare us with, is completely reversible: if you develop it, all you have to do is stop taking vitamin D and wait for the levels to go down.