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Vitamin D, How Much Should Adults Get Per Day? - Dr. Holick (VIDEO)

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Dr. Holick shares how much vitamin D adults should consume on an average day.

Dr. Holick:
What I personally do and my wife does is that we take a 1000 units of vitamin D. We take a multivitamin that contains 400 units of vitamin D, and I usually drink on average, two to three glasses of milk a day, which is another 300 units of vitamin D a day. So my total intake and my family’s intake, on average, is about 1800 to 2000 units a day, and our blood levels are about 40 to 50 nanograms per ml, which is just where we’d like to be.

About Dr. Holick, Ph.D., M.D.:
Michael Holick, Ph.D., M.D., is the Professor of Medicine of Physiology and Biophysics at Boston University School of Medicine. He received his medical degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and performed his residency and fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Holick specializes in vitamin D, calcium, bone metabolism, photobiology of vitamin, and osteoporosis. Dr. Holick is also the recipient of the American Skin Associations Psoriasis Research Achievement Award, the American College of Nutrition Award, the Robert H. Herman Memorial Award in Clinical Nutrition from the American Society for Clinical Nutrition, and more.

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