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I definitely dug out my vit D pills as a result of the coverage. Worst case scenario it creates expensive pee. Maybe it'll have some upside though
Well, that's one thing you don't need to worry about. Vitamin D is fat-soluble, so any excess isn't excreted in urine (hence the arguments over effective vs. excessive dosage).
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And your statement is wiser because? I've been taking vitamin d3 10K IU/day for 10 years and it has allowed my blood V-D3 levels to go from 12 ng/mL to ~50 which is within normal range. The NIH recommended dose has been going up over the last 2 decades starting at 400 IU and now 4,000 IU as we learn more and more about it's effectiveness.
The NIH states that 4000 IU is the tolerable upper intake: https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminD-HealthProfessiona... If you are rounding down your vitamin D status then it is currently at what the NIH say should be avoided. Have you consulted with a medical professional about your vitamin d status? 10k IU/day can be great when someone's level is 12, but it's not a maintenance dosage once at healthy levels.
These studies need to keep up until we can fully account for the difference in fatality not only worldwide, but state to state. Why has Japan, with an older population (median age 47), a tiny island, crowded indoor subways —- has only experienced 900 deaths and never locked down! while some zip codes in New York experiences 2x that amount. Even state to state the difference is alarming.
Did my masters on Vitamin D - It is very difficult to extract CLINICALLY RELEVANT information from retrospective epidemiological studies. However, there a a few things that are clear: 1. Calcium absorption from the intestine increases with vitamin D supplementation dose up to around 8-10,000 IU D3 daily. 2. 15 minutes of full body exposure in noon sun is equivalent to a dose of ~20,000 IU D3 3. There are few cases of…
I definitely dug out my vit D pills as a result of the coverage. Worst case scenario it creates expensive pee. Maybe it'll have some upside though
> Worst case scenario it creates expensive pee. Well, that's one thing you don't need to worry about. Vitamin D is fat-soluble, so any excess isn't excreted in urine (hence the arguments over effective vs. excessive dosage).
Good point. Thanks for pointing that out. I knew about the whole concept of water vs fat but didn't occur to me in this context
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that's not pessimistic. Regularly only 6% of vaccines make it past trials.
Do you have a source, because I provided one, and if you look, it says: "Approval rates ranged from a high of 33.4 percent in vaccines for infectious diseases to 3.4 percent for investigational cancer treatments" So by that source, I was wildly pessimistic.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...