When NOT to take VITAMIN D 

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I'll be immensely grateful if you can answer my question coz I'm in despair, no one here in Ukraine is qualified enough to do it. I've been having hypoparathyroidism for 18 years now, every day taking 8 tablets of Calcemin Advance (4gr of calcium in total) and alfacalcidol 2mcg. And throutout this year 2023 I've acquired calcification in liver and kidneys. How should I alter my treatment now? I know there is cholecalciferol 200 IU in every tablet of Calcemin Advance. Nobody can help me recalculate the equation of cholecalciferol in relation to alfacalcidol which I take daily and which is probably the reason of calcification. Really beg you for some piece of advice 🙏🙏🙏🙏@DrJinSung

​@@gm5995 First:. I AM NOT A DOCTOR/MEDIC You might benefit from Mk7 (sometimes sold with vitamin D). It takes calcium to the bones and to where else it needs to be.

we have shit doctors

RU-vid university student ?

@@TNT-km2eg Do you have a actual comment or just stupid snark?

I specifically asked my doctor to check my vitamin D levels and when I got my bloodwork results it was not on there. Very disappointing.

Sometimes the laboratory doesn't have the capability to run specialized lab work. if I'm looking for specific labs I usually go to a local diagnostic lab and have them draw my blood work (I know its out of pocket expense but I get what I want, when I want, with no doctor appointment).

i agree with you. Other doctors never mention this. It's my first time hearing this.

More blood test

Try and get some sun (must be right times of the day) and below certain latitude and during the seasons...see if that helps bring your Vit-D levels up etc

puggirl, I brought mine up to 74 from the 30s in 80 days with 10,000IUs D3 and k2 per my IFM doctor's recommendation. I get Now's Mega D3k2 with 5,000 and take two caps a day. She told me to always take my pills with an egg and a few pumpkin seeds (fat and magnesium). If your gut is not healthy you will not absorb nutrients so check for Leaky Gut., Chron's. or SIBO - even a high body fat percentage can block D, as well as steroids and statins. Sublingual supplements are good to use until your gut is healed. The doc also ordered that I get Near Infrared Sunlight before 10am and after 5pm so I took 30-60 minute strolls with the dogs twice a day. Hope it helps!!!

I've researched D3 quite a bit and what I've read it says you should take it orally if you have digestive issues, because of malabsorption where your body cannot absorb it properly and with gel supplements you can only absorb at most 30-40%. try take it sublingually and then see if things improve for you.

To treat Vit D deficiency u will be prescribed 50000 IU vit D3 or D2 for 3 months one pill weekly. Or 2 months then 10k once a week for a month If u wanna be treated just tell the doctor that u are stressed to these things, and a doc will not help till symptoms appear.

Vit D is fat vitamins same as A, E & K. they need a fat sources to be absorbed. try taking it after a heavy meals or as me, once i swallowed the capsules, i took Olive Oil as my main fat sources..

Yes, if you're supplementing at higher levels and the Vit D drops you should test.

Mentioning units is important Optimal 80 ng/dL 200 nmol/L

Did you take the cofactors to daily D3 (not D2) ? Did you take the fat soluble vitamins with healthy fat? Both K2 and D3 are fat soluble. Magnesium (not oxide form) dose needs to be split in half to improve absorption. Hope you are not supplementing calcium. Toxicity is rare. Did doctor test for Parathyroid Disease? 25(OH)D iPTH Serum calcium Often GPs have no idea what an optimal 25(OH)D is.

@@marlenegold280 I'm disappointed the Parathyroid disease was not covered in this talk. Taking Vitamin D can lead to problems if you have hypercalcemia.

Did you experience any symptoms from the toxicity? I started taking 5000 iu vitamin d with k2 and recently have been trying to overcome more inflammation and exhaustion than I have ever experienced. I wonder if the vitamin d had anything to do with it.

That’s nuts.. how much were u taking? Of the vitamin d? To be toxic what did you do? Must have been north of 20,000 iu an greater

Now I believe my heartburn has been gone for years because of my D3 consumption.

Your symptoms sound like mine.

Kim, you may want to add strontium and raw calcium and not take other forms of calcium (so dairy is okay, if absorbed). Also, we prefer the malate form of magnesium and be sure that your D3 is liquid and is combined with K2.

In how long do you take those 10,000 mg?

@@Golds-worthy in a day. When 1 caps is 1000 you take ten. Two times 5? (Its what I do) but add MK-7 !

@@Golds-worthy You’re asking duration not how much daily, correct? So, I don’t recommend the capsules. Should be D3/K2 in liquid form (unless there is a bleeding issue). And it should be monitored with labs. A baseline is required. I don’t typically recommend 10k during summer, even in the northern hemisphere. In summer I typically recommend 5k. But raw calcium and strontium should be added in many cases, depends on what conditions are being treated - in addition to low D. And this is treatment.

Wish I’d found this advice sooner. I’ve been taking high doses because my levels were so low heading into winter. I’m temporarily much farther north this winter and worried about staying healthy. Everyone around me is sick.

Sure . Simple solutions for simple minded

1000 IU dose is like for a child. Many with autoimmune dose take 10,000 IU D3 daily. Plus cofactors K2, magnesium (not oxide form) and with healthy fat as K2 and D3 are fat soluble.

Yeah, per my Dr., with blood work run every 6 months, I've been on 5000IU daily for the last few years. I live in Florida.

Delisiouslyme, darling, I'm sorry to hear. I have rheumatoid arthritis, Sjogrens, vasculitis, and heart failure, coeliac disease etc. My advise is to see a specialist, rheumatologist. I live in Australia, and my specialist tested me for vit D, you need blood tests as too much vit D (a hormone, it's unknown how hormones effect the immune system, but they do). I was misdiagnosed for decades, when it was finally picked up I was bed bound and too late (15 years ago) I am now 45. Autoimmune diseases are progressive if not caught early. All my love 💖

@@marisapaola9010 thank you so much and I’m so sorry for all you have. Having autoimmune is so hard 😞. I do have a rheumatologist and I have my vitamin D checked every 6 months or so by my request to my general dr. I try to stay on top of as even the rheumatologists don’t do their job thoroughly at all! Not the ones I’ve been seeing anyway!

i take 5000 per day

Yeah… the D Minder app is great for knowing how much we can get from the sun at a given latitude/ time of year/ time of day 👍

In Canada, we are often so deficient, summer is so short, we don’t get nearly enough. Plus doctors don’t test right.

Praying for Canadians! So sorry what your government is doing there.

@@lilstardust777 Thank you lilstardust777.

In Canada the summer sun will be "weak" Latitude greatly affects the production of vitamin D Age and cholesterol level also have an impact, as you get older you need to expose yourself to the sun for many hours to produce a decent amount of vitamin D (when you are young you will produce vitamin D more quickly) Cholesterol is essential for the production of vitamin D (from sun exposure) if cholesterol is low you will have to stay in the sun for much longer.

I had the same problem, the Dr proscribed 50,000 vit D 2 one’s weekly. I could take it for a while than I started to get a lot of PVC’s extra heart beats. This gives you a very uncomfortable feeling in your chest. The Dr felt it was not the vit D. However I felt it was and stopped taking it. After a few mist doses the PVC disappeared. After a while I started taking 1000 vit D 3. For osteopenia this seems to be ok.

Depleted your magnesium and you missed k2?

Same for me, but my palpitations start already with 5000IU. I now take only 2500IU a day by oral spray and all this cardiovasculair misery (palipitations, arrhytmia, ladible high bloodpressure) is making its exit, thank goodness. I also went to ER two times because this caused the anxiety they liked to label me with so badly only to find out my heart itself is working fine, its just triggered by 'something' and that something they are hellbend on calling hypothyroidism. Sad for them, my TSH is also coming down so they have to come to admit it was vitamin D all along. My oral spray works fine but I am in process to buy a vitamin lamp as well as I live in the arctic and the last bits of high bloodpressure may only leave once I stop supplementing vitamin D all together which I cant with soon only 4 hours daylight with a sun that will not produce enough output to soak vitamin D from because its too low on the horizon. If it is visible at all.

he isnt a medical doctor. he is a chiropractor. lmao

@@alexkahlon. Seriously? Well that says a lot. Like have you ever birthed a baby? If the answer is no then you’re not a doctor. Or not a medical one. So don’t be a chiro and saying you’re a doctor cause you’re not.

You should not totally stop supplementing your D3, the 25-OH blood level will nose dive. Try take 5 out of 7 days per week.

@@jonnylee8538 thx👍

If the Vitamin D unit is ng/mL then it is a bit higher only, just lower dose a very little bit. If the unit is nmol/L, you are still too low, and need to raise to 200 nmol/L. Knowing the unit of reference range is important, not just the number itself.

I meant ng/ml. Thanks

How much were you taking if you don't mind me asking?

The proper term is that they are inflammation regulators. They can have either effect.

Have you tried taking it with vitamin K2?

@@connerhazelrigg6332 No, I was told by my surgeon to stop taking vitamin D immediately. I can resume vitamin D supplementation after surgery.

I wonder what you mean by terrible? The only time I've tried taking it I ended up with a racing heart that sent me to hospital, only calmed by IV magnesium. I have borderline osteoporosis so I'm thinking it's something about the calcium balance. Would be interested in hearing your symptoms.

​@@christinecarter6836 I had a panic attack (which I am NOT prone to, it was a frightening experience), heart palpitations, my brain fog got much worse (sometimes it sounded like I was having a stroke when trying to speak... my words were badly mixed up). I couldn't remember simple things (forgot words like broom, chair, stairs, cup). Fatigue increased (would be nodding off even after drinking coffee). My bone pain got worse, particularly at night. My anxiety also increased, but that may have been because of how useless I felt at the time. My boss ended up telling me to take 2 weeks off because I just couldn't function. It was bizarre. For reference, my calcium went from 10.9 to 11.6 while on prescribed vit D (Ergo, 1.25mg, x1/week).

Oshkosh, please google vitamin K2, and see how it helps move calcium to the right place in body as opposed to deposit it in the wrong places, such as blood vessels and muscles.

Actually that's not true. Obese people often have low blood levels but that's because D is not stored in the blood. It's stored in the liver and in the adipose tissue. Adipose tissue = fat.

@Wisdom Rules Are you taking vitamin K2?

@@luzhernandez3830 Yes

I have found that the least expensive way to take K2-MK7 is in a 5000 IU D3 gel cap. Is this the way you take your K2?

@@dalesplitstone6276 Yes. I take 5000 IUs of D-3 and K-2 combined together in one capsule. There are several different brands aailable on Amazon, but I am taking Peak Performance right now.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Results never lie.

Not good to take calcium in supplement form. Increased risk heart attack and stroke. Dietary calcium is best. Healthy source: sardines with bones; eat the softened bones too. I just mash them.

5000iu D3 with 90-100mcg K2 from my doctor but I only take 45mcg K2 supplementation, the rest is from my diet (tempeh, egg yolk, chicken)

I believe the proper ratio of D3 to A is 900 IU D3 to 400 IU A. I'm not sure if there is any proper ratio for the others.

Is there a need to supplement with vitamin A if taking vitamin d?

@@drsgme69 It would seen so with extreme dosages. An study of vitamin A versus vitamin D3 indicated so. When administered the equivalent of 900,000 IU of vitamin D3, even with normal supplementation of vitamin A the rats were deficient in vitamin A, and when administered the equivalent of 400,000 IU/day of vitamin A, even with a normal level of vitamin D3 supplementation, the rats were vitamin D deficient. There are several issues with this study, beginning with the extraordinarily high levels of supplementation. They also fail to mention whether this was dietary supplementation or injection, and whether the vitamins were given at the same time, or hours apart. My only take away from this is that the ratio of vitamin D3 to vitamin A should be 900 IU of vitamin D3 to 400 IU of vitamin A when taking more than the RDA of D3. The actual RDA of vitamin A is 5000 IU/day of vitamin A and 800 IU/day of D3. I take one gel cap with 5000 IU of vitamin D3 plus 100 mcg of K2-MK7 every morning with one 25,000 IU gel cap of vitamin A every Sunday night, and one extra 5000 IU D3 plus 100 mcg vitamin K2-MK7 gel cap every Sunday morning. This is 40000 IU/week of D3 versus 25,000 IU/week of A. This is much more than a 4-9 ratio of vitamin A, but when I started taking vitamin A, it didn't reduce my blood serum D test result by a single ng/ml. This would seem to indicate that at normal levels of supplementation, at least vitamin A does not suppress vitamin D utilization, and it probably works the other way. I also take a daily multivitamin with 2500 IU of vitamin A and 400 IU of vitamin D3, as well as a daily mineral supplement with 200 IU of vitamin D3. I am therefore taking 7500 IU/week of A more than the RDA, and 38,600 IU/week of vitamin D3. I would suggest that, if you are taking more than 5000 IU/day of D3, you also supplement with the RDA of vitamin A.

Gout has to do with your blood being too acidic. Baking soda helps me.

Sounds like a good doctor. Perfect.

@@DrJinSung Seeing as how I have Hashimoto’s should I be asking her if my blood test was the “active vitamin D test“?

A month is too soon; more like 3-6 months is better. Hopefully, your doctor said to take cofactors to daily Vitamin D3 (not D2). Cofactors 200 mcg Vitamin K2 400 mg Magnesium (not oxide form) Remember D3 and K2 are fat soluble. Avoid processed seed oils, margarine, shortening With breakfast containing healthy fat: D3 and 1/2 of magnesium With supper containing healthy fat: K2 and 1/2 of magnesium

@@marlenegold280 THANK you Marlene! I am screen shotting and keeping this in my notes. I appreciate it greatly!

@S-Sage You have missunderstod about active and inactive vitamin D. D2 is a form of vitamin D you can get from mushrooms, for example. It's not the form your body would produce from the sun. Thats D3. D3 is stored in fat and slowly converted into 25(OH)D3, which is what they measure to determine your vitamin D level. This is later converted into 1,25(OH)D3 by the kidneys, and also by the cells wich needs it more. That's what here called the active form. There's a perscription form of D2, which some doctors prescribe. It's not as effective as D3. And they give it as a Mega-Dose, and that's really the wrong way to do it. The right was is to take D3 almost daily. And also magnesium and K2. Something like: 5000 IU of D3. At least 200 ug of K2/MK7. Magnesium, you need about 400 mg a day, and probably can't get that from food. So supplement with for example magnisiumcitrate or magnesium(bis)glycinate.9 Vitamin D need magnesium to work. And you don't get all its effects without K2, which makes calcium go to the right places. As always let the body get used to the changes in the magnesium/calcium balance by introducing these thing slowly over 2, 3 weeks. You can massure the level of vitamin D after 3 months or so. Although, it's nice to have both a before and after meassurement.

So what is he doing then?

In the morning. Taking vitamin D3 at night can interfere with sleep.

That’s usually a short term prescription for up to 8 weeks only. So sorry you had to go through a lo that!

above 295 ng?

what about calcium level?

I also had toxic levels when admitted to the hospital. It has taken two years without D and now it is back to normal!!!! It was very difficult, but I was thankful I was not in pain

@@RapturereadyforJesus What do you mean two years? Two years toxic level? Did not drop at all for two years?!

25-hydroxy vitamin D and 1,25-hydroxy vitamin D(active form)

@@DrJinSung Thank you very much.