Posted by Larry Hoover on June 14, 2006, at 9:50:16
In reply to Re: Vitamin D 4000 IU/day???? » Larry Hoover, posted by dessbee on June 14, 2006, at 5:28:30
> I disagree. Your recommendations might actually kill someone. Vitamin D is the most toxic vitamin known to man. 4000 IU of Vitamin D will cause hypercalcemia and calcification of blood vessels.
I'm sorry, but science has moved on from those beliefs. Vitamin D comes in 3 forms, in nature. One of those forms, ergocalciferol, is toxic in overdose. D3, is not. You can't buy the toxic version any more, but the prohibition has stuck around.
> You seem too think the more the better. It is quite the opposite. Larry, start staking 4000 IU today and I promise you will not be a part of this forum anymore!
Here's a recent editorial about megadose vitamin D therapies. There's a study in that same journal issue, where injected doses of vitamin D were 600,000 IU. That is not a typo. The internal links on this page will pull up the full-text of the study I just mentioned.
http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/183_01_040705/ebe10337_fm.html
Lar
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