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Story of Vitamin D Toxicity (2022)

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Post by miduil »

lambdaba wrote: post #29
JohnMakin wrote: post #4

I struggle to believe that a physician told her to take 5000 IU of vitamin D daily for 5+ years. This is nearly 10x canada's recommended winter time dose for adults under 70. After years of struggling with severe joint pain and mental fog/depression, among other things it was discovered that I had critically low vitamin D. They prescribed the 5000 dose but told me at least 10 times how I should NOT continue this high…

The fear of vitamin D overdose is GREATLY overblown, people recover even with overdose with ridiculous (2 MILLION) units over several weeks, anyway, it's strange how much fear has been manufactured over this particular "vitamin".

Source?

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Post by Traubenfuchs »

llmblockchain wrote: post #15

I read a study today about a person that got a blood infection from the "good" bacteria in yogurt, and died. Nature be scary yo. If you can be taken out by yogurt I imagine anything can do it used in the wrong way, or even the correct way on occasion.

Salad considered harmful.

https://archive.is/wip/vqmi5

> Professor Pennington also pointed out that a bean sprout farm in northern Germany was identified as the most likely source of many of the infections in the E. coli outbreak that left 22 people dead in 2011.

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Post by ghaff »

JohnMakin wrote: post #4

I struggle to believe that a physician told her to take 5000 IU of vitamin D daily for 5+ years. This is nearly 10x canada's recommended winter time dose for adults under 70. After years of struggling with severe joint pain and mental fog/depression, among other things it was discovered that I had critically low vitamin D. They prescribed the 5000 dose but told me at least 10 times how I should NOT continue this high…

And yet, I take a 5000 IU over the counter gel of Vitamin D, which is in my medical record, and no medical provider has ever raised an eyebrow.

(I started taking a number of years back when I had low Vitamin D based on bloodwork.)

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Post by Traubenfuchs »

raverbashing wrote: post #25

(2020) and not the first time I see this link on HN actually

Vitamin D is reheated and presented as revolution every few years.

Yes, everyone should take vitamin D supplements, but too much vitamin D is very dangerous.

Everyone should regularly get tested for their vitamin D level as well. It's cheap. It's easy. It's quick.

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Post by dylan604 »

llmblockchain wrote: post #15

I read a study today about a person that got a blood infection from the "good" bacteria in yogurt, and died. Nature be scary yo. If you can be taken out by yogurt I imagine anything can do it used in the wrong way, or even the correct way on occasion.

What was the expiration date of that yogurt?

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Post by lambdaba »

miduil wrote: post #31
lambdaba wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The fear of vitamin D overdose is GREATLY overblown, people recover even with overdose with ridiculous (2 MILLION) units over several weeks, anyway, it's strange how much fear has been manufactured over this particular "vitamin".

Source?

> The knowledge about toxicity from hypervitaminosis D in terms of dosage and duration is limited. Because of the high heterogeneity in reported amounts of vitamin D intoxication cases, it is not possible to calculate a reliable mean value that will invariably induce toxic effects. The highest daily dose hitherto reported in the literature is about 2,000,000 UI/day that has led to intoxication in a couple of months

> Moreover, the highest cumulative dose (657,000,000 UI) leading to toxicity was obtained after 36 months of treatment with cholecalciferol 600,000 UI/day

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Post by homefree »

JohnMakin wrote: post #4

I struggle to believe that a physician told her to take 5000 IU of vitamin D daily for 5+ years. This is nearly 10x canada's recommended winter time dose for adults under 70. After years of struggling with severe joint pain and mental fog/depression, among other things it was discovered that I had critically low vitamin D. They prescribed the 5000 dose but told me at least 10 times how I should NOT continue this high…

I had vitamin d deficiency and they prescribed a 50,000 IU pill to take once a week for 3 months, then said 5000 IU daily after that would be fine.

What qualified as deficient also changed during this time too. The recommendation doesn’t surprise me and the vitamin stuff has always seemed like they didn’t really know what they were talking about imo.

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Post by 0xbadcafebee »

> The only lingering effects appeared to be a wariness of physicians and distrust of vitamins, both understandable

I am not a doctor, by any stretch of the imagination. But I do work on cars, and computers. As far as I can tell, a doctor works exactly the same way as a mechanic or a computer technician. They listen to symptoms, make an educated guess at a root cause based on limited information, make an educated guess at what might resolve the situation, and then wait to hear back if that fixed it; if it didn't, the loop continues.

Medicine might be scientific, but the practice of medicine is clearly an art, not a science. I don't trust my mechanic; why the hell would I trust my doctor?

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Post by nisegami »

JohnMakin wrote: post #4

I struggle to believe that a physician told her to take 5000 IU of vitamin D daily for 5+ years. This is nearly 10x canada's recommended winter time dose for adults under 70. After years of struggling with severe joint pain and mental fog/depression, among other things it was discovered that I had critically low vitamin D. They prescribed the 5000 dose but told me at least 10 times how I should NOT continue this high…

I've been on 5000 IU daily for years and my vitamin D levels came back last month as just barely within the normal range. Seems to be some people don't absorb it very well.
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