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Because up to 10,000iu/daily/vitamin D3 is known to be absolutely safe it simply is not necessary or worthwhile consulting anyone before correcting vitamin D3 deficiency.
It was health professionals that have got us into this vitamin D3 mess by suggesting people avoid sunlight and by recommending amount of Vitamin D that are totally inadequate.
Laying naked in the midday sun and getting 20~30minutes full body sun exposure generates over 8000iu. It is easily possible to generate 10,000~20,000iu from one days sun exposure and careful management of exposure times and watching to ensure no burning is occuring could result in up to 50,000iu of vitamin D3 being generated. It defies common sense to suggest that these amounts are unhealthy or possibly unsafe. These are the NATURAL amounts our DNA is programmed to produce and programmed to work best with.
The form of Vitamin D3 Cholecalciferol used in over the counter supplements is biologically identical to the form your skin makes itself. What logical reason is there to suggest it may be in any way unsafe?
http://www.grassrootshealth.net/media/download/vieth_sip_vitd_cancer_symp_2009.pdf
The Risk of Additional Vitamin D REINHOLD VIETH

In practice most health professionals use the plant form of Vitamin D2 Ergocalciferol and this is the form that one needs to be wary of. Not only is it less effective and more expensive it is also less safe. What happens with D2 is it speeds up the catabolism of Vitamin D so your turnover is faster. When they gave 2 different groups the same amount of vitamin D, one group D2 the other D3 by the 15th day the D2 group were back to the starting point while the D3 group maintained a higher status for longer. At the end of a month the D2 group were BELOW the starting point while the D3 group remained at a reasonable level.
The idea that doctors always prescribe what is in their patients best interests is simply naive. In this case we see health professionals prescribing the most expensive least effective form of vitamin D.
This Vitamin D Council newsletter provides some useful up to date information.
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/newsletter/more-vitamin-d-studies-of-interest.shtml
To enable human breast milk to flow replete with D3 requires around 6400iu/daily at latitude 32.

December 11, 2009 - 6:57am

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