@tylerk
I agree with Mary (@imallears). I'm curious why you started taking vitamin D and how you decided to take 7,000 IU’s? Do you have a medical condition or take medication that depletes your vitamin D?
I only take vitamins or minerals that have been recommended and at the dosage suggested by my physician that I am lacking in. My doctor ordered a vitamin profile including vitamin D (which isn’t actually a vitamin but a hormone) because I was on anti-seizure medications, all of which were enzyme inducers that interfere with how vitamin D is processed in the body.
The seizure medications I was on increased vitamin D metabolism lowering the vitamin D level. My blood level was found to be nearly nonexistent so my doctor ordered 6,000 IU’s daily. I have since decreased the number of seizure medications and now take 3,000 units. Anything less and my level falls.
Vitamin D aids in the absorption of calcium but one also needs vitamin K to help the calcium go into your bones instead of blood vessels or other tissues that may lead to heart & other serious illnesses.
Vitamins and minerals are all too often taken indiscriminately. You hit the nail on the head Mary, plus you stole my line but I'll forgive you this time.
I often wonder if correcting my vitamin D deficiency is why my seizures stopped. I'll never know but it has been proven vitamin D can decrease seizure activity.
Take care,
Jake