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This article is very technical and difficult to read. Is there a TLDR?
Eat one small rock per day as important source of vitamins and minerals critical to digestive health.
Wait, we're talking about birds right?
Do we need to be skeptical of NIH because of Trump? or they're still okay? Also, remember - don't take D on its own. Always with magnesium, or you get harmed by it, for all that it also does you good. Body is not built for raw D. Also also remember, D2 is a vitamin, D3 is a hormone.
I think it's important to clarify understandings for non-scientific/med community each time these types of technical discussions occur.
In the US, you can get 50000 IU on Amazon, good enough for weekly supplementation if you're low (same as prescription strength).
I just got more 5000IU at Walmart which was a nice surprise. Normally I take two 2000IU tablets.
So is 10,000 IU of daily does ok ?
In the US, you can get 50000 IU on Amazon, good enough for weekly supplementation if you're low (same as prescription strength).
Also what's an IU. Apparently it's meant to normalize impact across vitamin D species of which there are multiple. Part of me can see the reasoning but it runs contrary to how much of medicine/pharma operates, generally in such form as either mg per time interval or mg/kg per time interval. It would be like taking the whole armada of blood pressure drugs and dictating their doses in mmHg instead of milligrams. If only things were so simple!
So is 10,000 IU of daily does ok ?
I would not take that much consistently unless you're in the arctic circle and its winter
Meanwhile, my daily 5000IU Vitamin D pills were recalled by some authority in Finland for “excessive dose”, and since it appears that a recall anywhere in the EU will apply to the whole EU, I was given a refund and presumably won’t be able to buy it again.
5kIU = 125 micrograms, that's a lot.