How much Vit D per day?
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How much Vit D per day?
Given the increasing connection lack of Vit D and various conditions how much should we be taking? I know there isn’t a simple answer!
The Vitamin D Council recommends 5,000 IU daily, and while that's been shown to be safe for most people, it may be more than many of us need after we recover. I take around 3,000 IU per day during the warmer months and 5,000 IU during the cooler months. I follow their recommendation to try to keep my blood level in the 40–80 ng/ml (100–200 mmol/l) range. My last test was 57ng/ml (142 mmol/l), but in past years it has been as high as 81 ng/ml (202 mol/l) and as low as 45 ng/ml (112 mmol/l), depending (probably) on how much magnesium I had been taking. Somewhere around 60 ng/ml (150 mmol/l) seems to be the optimal blood level for preventing many diseases without imposing any risks of adverse events.
Everyone seems to be different on how they respond to vitamin D supplementation, but I have a hunch their magnesium and calcium levels have a lot to do with that. Calcium depletes vitamin D, so if you have a high-calcium diet, or you are taking a calcium supplement, your vitamin D level will be lower than it would be otherwise.
MC patients who have GERD do much better with 8,000–10,000 IUs of vitamin D daily, but that's more than most of us need. And of course the farther north you live, the less sunllght you get, so the more vitamin D supplement you probably need. For most of us, somewhere in the 3,000-5,000 IU range seems to work. We need less in the summer and more in the winter. And we need more when we first begin to recover from MC. I hope this helps.
Tex
Everyone seems to be different on how they respond to vitamin D supplementation, but I have a hunch their magnesium and calcium levels have a lot to do with that. Calcium depletes vitamin D, so if you have a high-calcium diet, or you are taking a calcium supplement, your vitamin D level will be lower than it would be otherwise.
MC patients who have GERD do much better with 8,000–10,000 IUs of vitamin D daily, but that's more than most of us need. And of course the farther north you live, the less sunllght you get, so the more vitamin D supplement you probably need. For most of us, somewhere in the 3,000-5,000 IU range seems to work. We need less in the summer and more in the winter. And we need more when we first begin to recover from MC. I hope this helps.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
Oops! I corrected a typo in my original reply. That should have been "without imposing any risks of adverse events", not
with imposing any risks of adverse events
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.