How much vitamin d are you taking?

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Anyone following Dr John Campbell on YouTube may have seen his video on vit d dosing, and I'm interested to know if anyone is taking more than the general dose on the bottles? I've been taking more for a few weeks now - about 10-12 weeks, and I've noticed my periods are much less painful. Just wondering if anyone else is taking more and if you've noticed any benefits?

Can anybody recommend what Tablets to buy please?

I meant vitamin D, not Iron. Sorry, got mixed up there. My vitamin D levels were worryingly low. My iron levels were ridiculously low too though and have since risen.

No problem, I was just very worried for a moment as I have very high iron and I panicked that I’d made it worse Glad your levels are better

I take 4000iu daily and I notice I feel more lethargic/sad if I don’t take it for a few days
I’ve been much better at remembering since I head that low levels of the vitamin caused worse covid symptoms

@Cassimin - I take BetterYou vit D & K2 spray from Holland and Barrett. I buy it when it is 2 for £10 (penny sale). Other posters mentioned that Costco do a combined one in a large jar that is very economical.

1000iu. I just started a few days ago. The brand is Vitabiotics.

Thanks everyone.
Was in Holland and barrat today, saw it on the counter but didn’t buy it!
Going to give it a whirl, can’t do any harm.

I've taken 1000iu for quite a while, but upped it to 2000iu a couple of months ago.

2000 iu, or.50mcg.every day
As advised by Nhs endocrinolgist.
When I was deficient I had a loading dose which was much higher of.20,000 iu per WEEK.

Health Aid brand, or.vitabiotics for.daily.dose.

@Cassimin - it definitely can't do any harm to supplement in the winter. You may find it elevates your mood and helps ease stiff joints/inflammation too. A few YouTube doctors mention it is virtually impossible to lose weight in perimenopause and menopause if your vitamin D levels are low. But it is widely accepted as important for a healthy immune response,so that's my big motivation at the moment.

@Dancingwithunicorns

I take 16,000iu per day, and have done for the last four years. I take it with K2, magnesium and zinc, and my blood levels have never gone above 180, even in summer. I check them every six months or so and it costs around £40.

I actually started out taking 50,000iu per day for the first three months (which started in May, so also had the benefit of sunlight) and it still took a year to get to 175!

I should say though, I got Covid in March, it took four months to recover, and it left me with asthma!

You do realise that your body can stop absorbing if you take too much daily and your body just gets rid of it in waste. I think this is what you are doing. I was told this by a neurologist earlier this year. Reduce your daily amount, you are taking far too much.

2000 IU for me, DH and MIL.

Love Dr Campbell's YT videos - he's doing a sterling job during this pandemic.

I take 4000iu with K2. I had a test done through Better You in July and found I was deficient. I was a bit surprised as due to being furloughed I’d been outside for hours every day with my toddler, only wearing sunscreen if it got really hot (which it didn’t often in Glasgow). I do think it helps - I had the most horrendous aches in my legs and hands and they’re pretty much gone now. I think it has improved my mood too, but that’s taken longer. Still don’t feel tip top a lot of the time due to everything that’s going on but in the summer I really felt the worst anxiety and depression I’d had in years. Now when I’m feeling well I actually do feel well. I hope it continues.

I’m going to get another test done soon through the Sandwell lab to see where my levels are. If anyone’s interested in that and their GP is unwilling to test (like mine), it’s a very easy test, just a pinprick and blood spots on a bit of card. I couldn’t send off the Thriva tests because I couldn’t fill the vial with enough blood.

There was a wonderfully helpful poster on here who knew loads about vit D, think her name was @Bettertobehealthy

DianaT1969
Thanks for that info, you could have been describing me.
I’ve decided to cut down as I’m aching all over, too much eating over lockdown!
The fact that I’m menopausal isn’t helping so definitely going to invest now.

According to DMinder app, even though the sun is shining now, we can’t make any D from it. Does anyone know any info that corroborates this?

Thanks

Its to do with the wavelength at this time of year. It doesn't induce the body to produce vitamin d

Nhs says:

Winter sunlight

In the UK, sunlight doesn't contain enough UVB radiation in winter (October to early March) for our skin to be able to make vitamin D.

During these months, we rely on getting ourvitamin D from food sources (including fortified foods) andsupplements.

Using sunbedsisn't a recommendedway of makingvitamin D.

I have 5000iu tablets. I'm awful at remembering to take them. I have never had my vitamin D levels tested.

Is it ok to take this amount every other day?

Or start out taking it every day for a few weeks then move to every other day?

Having watched this video by Dr John Campbell, about the Spanish clinical trial, I feel so sorry for anyone being hospitalised in the UK now who is not being given calcifidiol (the direct form of vitamin D which doesn't require processing in the body first, like food and supplements do).

It's only available on prescription, so if one of my loved ones goes in I'm aware that I won't even get the chance to beg doctors to give it because we wouldn't be allowed to visit. To recap the video, but please watch it, a randomised clinical trial was done. Having an immediate high dose of vitamin D (regardless of the patient's base level when going into hospital) cut admission to ICU to just 2%. Whereas of the random patients not given it, but also given the hospital's standard best treatment - 50% of them entered ICU. None of the vitamin D patients died.

*calcifediol (spell check keeps changing it).

@widebum same here! We got 10,000 iu too, I’m going to cut down to one every 3 days

Blimey, lesson learnt to check in future

Re: winter sunshine... in order to make vitamin D in the skin, you have to have UVB radiation at a wavelength of 270 - 300 nm. The atmosphere around the horizon and up to around 32 degrees elevation blocks out all UVB at those wavelengths, so it doesn't matter how sunny it is and how long you stay out, you won't make any vitamin D at all. That's the case from late September to early March (S England). It's the same for early morning and late afternoon in summer, the sun is too low in the sky to let through 270 - 300 UVB.

Here's more details in a blog post about the remarkable Spanish randomised control trial (Córdoba) which saw a 25 fold reduction in hospital patients needing intensive care in those who were prescribed calcifediol. Vitamin D works, both as prophylaxis and treatment for the infection.

www.drdavidgrimes.com/2020/09/covid-19-and-vitamin-d-randomised.html

I was borderline low at my last annual physical so my GP recommended 5000iu daily, along with K2. I mentioned that I had read that 4000iu should be the max and she said that was outdated and I would be fine with 5000iu.

@BahHumBygge - thanks for the link. It's very upsetting that scientists and medics agree that lives are being lost due to the selected 'deafness' of those in control of our health service and the WHO.
We watch them chasing expensive vaccines and new treatments while ignoring vitamin D as a treatment - it's low cost and widely available with no side effects.

If the Spanish trial was scaled up, in theory all 40,000 people who lost their lives in the UK would have survived and only 2% of them would have gone to ICU - to be released without ongoing issues later. Of course, in real life that's impossible. There would have been unusual underlying medical factors, not always the same level of care given as in the Spanish ICU etc.
But what a lot of lives lost here in the UK!
As one medic/scientist comments on your link, there should - and perhaps will be - a legal case to answer once this is over. The problem is - the selected deafness is so widespread. Apart from the Minister for Health, the WHO and PHE, who else could get this rolled out as a minimum treatment for all admissions today? How long does it serve them to continue ignoring it?