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Vitamin D deficiency: anyone had this?
Just Want to Talk | Last Active: Apr 3, 2023 | Replies (42)Comment receiving replies
Good evening, I was just jaunting by and came upon your discussion. So I thought I would sort of barge in and add a recent supplement adjustment I received from my endocrinologist at Mayo. He recommended that I reduce my vitamin D3 from 5000 IU daily to 1000 IU daily. Accordingly, he apprised me of recent research showing that women who are older and fighting issues like osteoporosis need to be careful and not take too much D3 because it has been proven to add to dementia in older patients.......like me.
Thanks for having such an open and helpful discussion. Save some dessert for me.....I might be back you know! Just teasing you all. Good night.
May you all have happiness and the causes of happiness.
Chris
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Yes, thank you! I had heard about too much vitamin D; that it is often overdone and that tablets are using crazy doses. I didn't know about the dementia though, good to know, a great reminder because I was considering serious intake.
I will wait for the call or call myself to find out more and to know what to do. i am not too keen on taking all sorts of supplements. A few things are very off in the results so these should be evaluated, they could have to do with it.
This is tricky because if you lack vitamin D you can get osteoporosis. I suppose the GP will have a clever plan for me.
Thank you so much!
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My PCP and endocrinologist also think that people are overdoing vitamin D. (Similar to when people overdid vitamins E and A in the past, which was a problem with oil-based vitamins. We can 'pee away' vitamin C and a lot of the water-solubles but some of the oil-solubles build up in the system.) I take vitamin D3 and keep it under 1500 IU per day and it's balanced with algae-derived calcium, K2, magnesium, etc. And annual blood work includes testing D level.