1ºGlorianna Ray So much of our food is processed and void of the nutrients we need. Taking the right supplements at the correct dose can be of great benefit.
The same investment companies own the media and pharmaceutical company’s. Google it! These articles in my opinion are BS; the intention is to create fear around taking supplements.
My Vitamin D levels were too low a few years back. I take 4000 IUS a day by Carlson Labs and they’ve been in the normal range ever since. I have a lot of success stories I could share as I’m sure others do as well.
2ºThe issue here is that he listened to a “nutritionist” who was not certified and, obviously, had no clue what he was talking about. Even the article says that the profession is not regulated in the UK nor the title protected and ANYONE can claim to be a nutritionist.
Hell, I take anywhere from 5-10k IU a day and have for a while. I’m perfectly fine. It’s when you start taking 150k a day that you run into issues. It also said that he started taking something like 20 supplements all at once. There’s a chance some of those, since not listed, could have added to the problem.
3ºTiffany Dumont Stilwell you're fine then. 50k is very normal once a week. What I read is your body produces about 50k if you spend about a half hour in the sunlight with most of your body exposed to the sunshine. At one point when I got a little too high I noticed my bones kind of aching and then I got a test which verified it was too high so I backed it down it's not a huge deal unless you are ridiculously high that can really mess up your calcium absorption... But so can having very low levels and that negatively affects your immune system as well.
4ºHarrison Bergeron as the headline says, it's a cautionary tale. And that is entirely valid, given the increasing number of people being damaged by excessive supplement use. Causes of liver damage, due to supplement abuse, rose from 7% in 2004 to 20% in 2015. Most humans are not that bright. They appear to think that x is good so 2x is even better. And don't get me started on the cretins who think "Oh, it's natural and so it can't harm you".
It is perfectly correct to caution supplement users.
And if you think you have a valid point then why lie to support your argument. The idiot in question did not, at all, present solely with "stomach pains".
5ºMichael Angemeer yes a doctor paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by pharmaceutical companies does happen to tell everyone to take 3 times the amount recommended by doctors across the world. While at Boston University, he was asked to leave the Division of Dermatology because of his promoting the medical benefits of sun exposure. He accepted research funding for this work from a non-profit tanning bed company, considered by many to be an important potential bias. Barbara Gilchrest, then head of the department at Boston University, called Holick's book "shlock science" and Holick "a poster boy for the tanning industry"
But yeah, great guy to cite
6ºA little extreme, if you ask me. Besides taking my daily multivitamin, I take one 50mg tablet of Vitamin D3 to boost my immune system. Does it work? Well I very, very rarely get a cold and though I haven’t got the flu shot for who knows how long ago, I haven’t had the flu for decades. Now I’m not suggesting that you would get the same results but what I’m doing works for me. And though I’m 71 years old, I don’t live a reclusive lifestyle. PS. I get lab tests done every year now and they’ve been pretty good.
7ºHarrison Bergeron oh ffs, did you not read where your body holds on to vitamin D because it’s fat-soluble, and having too much in your system leaches calcium from your bones, and can cause kidney issues? Most notably kidney stones. Because that’s all true. And it doesn’t take 150000 IU a day… taking 10000 IU per week can be too much for someone who isn’t deficient. Taking more than what your doctor recommends (after drawing labs to determine your levels) can cause issues, but that also depends on your body chemistry, metabolism, if you have any other conditions, etc. Just go talk to your doctor now that you have more information about vitamin D and see what they recommend, especially now that there has been more research done related to COVID. No need to make a big thing of it.
8ºDawn Prince LOL! The person that needs to be told that is also the person that needs to be told not to stick their hands inside the lawnmower blades while it's running.... we don't need the news for that, that's what Darwin awards are for. The vast majority of Americans are dangerously deficient and see an article like this and decide never to use vitamin D. When you look at the research it is clear the part of our healthcare problem is deficiencies like this. We e complain about how many people are getting cancer and dying of COVID and then you see that over a 30% of those deaths could be prevented by a simple supplement... it's very frustrating to me to watch. When I try to tell my friends to take vitamin D however, they will point to an article like this and say they are scared to take it. . I would say take it with caution, take it in moderation, and always with the assistance and advice of a doctor. But if you're not getting sunshine you probably need to be taking it.
9ºI have MS & have taken Vit D in 5000u daily for many many years until last year when suddenly my level went sky high. I hadn’t changed dose but I had gotten really sick with an opportunistic GI infection that landed me in hospital-twice in a 3 week period. That high vit D level messed up my Calcium levels to concerning amts. my thyroid hormones were also out of whack so I had to stop all vit D supplements. I still don’t take any & my level is good. I try to get out in sun daily for 30” while walking dog. So far so good. None of my docs can explain what happened but my infection was very severe.
10ºChristine Torres My experience is this… my husband got blood work. It showed V D was very low. He started on vitamin D in pill form. I believe a 1000 IU a day. Over the next year it barely got better. We increase to 5000IU the next year again. Bloodwork barely changed. Long story short the pill form didn’t work for him. Year 3 with lab work he had to 10000 IU sublingual per day for almost a year to get on the low range of labs. Everyone is very different. I share this because the lab work is important if your taking high doses above recommended dosages. Better judgement I agree.