Im a physician and im not sure this is a safe amount of vitamin D3 to take in a day. You can get Vitamin D toxicity from taking too much which can be dangerous.
“The NIH notes that symptoms of vitamin D toxicity are most likely to appear when a person’s daily intake is at least 10,000 IU”
I would not take this daily unless you have a moderate to severe vitamin D deficiency which you can only know from blood work ordered by your doctor so I would definitely speak with your doctor first before taking this.
It would take 10x this amount daily to get vitamin D toxicity.
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That’s what big pharma pays you to say and why they fund most medical colleges. Daily 10k iu will not cause toxicity. I have been taking 1 prescribed 50k iu weekly for year now with additional 5k iu daily, went from very low D to moderate to high levels of D via blood tests. I have not been sick, not even a cold, achy joints no longer hurt, my blood pressure and cholesterol is now normal. Because I was deficient in Vitamin D as most people are in the northeast US ohh and my calcium levels are not elevated which is the primary marker of having too much vitamin D. What’s more dangerous are doctors following big pharmaceutical big lie about the miracle cures and benefits of vitamin D
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Are these vegetarian?
Not all doctors are influenced by big pharma and the wooters advice is sound. If you don’t have a vitamin D deficiency taking this much might have adverse side effects at worst or be just a waste of money at best. As a dietary nutritionist, my mom has seen LOTS of people who take mega doses of all kinds of supplements. Some side effects were serious and some mildly humorous such as the gentleman who juiced pounds of carrots and beta carotene supplements and quite literally turned his skin a light orange. People also need to consider their size. Just like calories, your mass matters. 10,000 IU for someone at 230 lb might not be an issue. A 110 lb person…. Maybe not so much. It’s great that vitamin D supplements worked for you, but it’s not a miracle cure for everyone. And while I agree that the pharmaceutical industry certainly tries to suppress cures that they don’t control, I have almost as little faith in the supplements industry. They are for profit also and are also not above suspicion.
If you’re taking them every 2-3 days it’s not that big of deal.
In addition supplement companies do not need to do studies in order to sell supplements legally as they do not need to be approved by the FDA. They can also simply make claims and then just put a small asterisk next to them that you then have to find somewhere else on the bottle in the smallest lrint possible stating that those claims have not been proven enough to be backed by the FDA or any other credible scientific organization.