Hi everyone! I received my bloodwork back from my GI. I am very deficient in Vitamin D3 and need to take a supplement. I know most of you already do that so I am wondering what the best brands are out there that are free of the major allergens? I need 1000 IU.
Hopefully this will help my terrible joint pain!
Leanne :)!
Vitamin D3
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Leanne,
If your test showed that you are very deficient, then unless you want to remain deficient, you don't need 1,000 IU — you need a heck of a lot more than that. I'm not deficient, but I take over 6,000 IU every day during the fall, winter, and spring, and I live in sunny Central Texas. You will be much more likely to get out of that deficiency range within a few months or so if you take a reasonable dose of vitamin D3, rather than to just tease your immune system with 1,000 IU per day.
I use Freeda vitamin D, but there are many other good brands that are safe.
Tex
If your test showed that you are very deficient, then unless you want to remain deficient, you don't need 1,000 IU — you need a heck of a lot more than that. I'm not deficient, but I take over 6,000 IU every day during the fall, winter, and spring, and I live in sunny Central Texas. You will be much more likely to get out of that deficiency range within a few months or so if you take a reasonable dose of vitamin D3, rather than to just tease your immune system with 1,000 IU per day.
I use Freeda vitamin D, but there are many other good brands that are safe.
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.
I've recently been taking the Coromega fish oil with vitamin D3 1000mgs in it. I'll take a few packets a day, along with getting some sun exposure. It comes as a flavored paste instead of a gelatin capsule which is what I was looking for. I was looking to avoid gelatin. Had to laugh reading that it was referred to as "fish pudding". For a fish pudding it's not that bad tasting. It does have one major allergen in it, eggs, so with all this mention and just looking at your allergen list it might not work for you.