Vitamin D3 discussion

I have MS and there is research out there that vitamin D deficiency may be the root of MS. My neurologist had me tested and I was shocked to see that I was under 15 during the summer months.

I am now on a dose of 50,000 IU once per week (gelcaps). For some reason more is absorbed in higher doses less frequently. I don't recommend this for others. I am under a doctors care for this. But I have no ill side effects and in fact after a short time can see a difference in how I feel - a bit more energetic and for me even a small percentage better than my normal is a miracle to me.

If you want vitamin d Its called sun bathing or even better sun gazing... Don't buy some stupid pill when its free.. Stop eating meat and milk and eggs your not a snake your a human wierd, eat vegan food such as sprouts and nuts and seeds I eat pefect food bars from garden of life... buy some collodial silver and ingest to get the years of bad eating out of you and to increase this buy a pyramid offline they sell them in california and place water in them its great for water prefably rain water


do yourself a favor use your cellphone less and stop watching

Nice thread OP! This is one of my favorite topics. I've done a fair amount of research on this so I'll list some of the highlights here:

I posted this video on one of your other threads but for the sake of discussion... This video is from a doctor that has researched it more than anyone else I've come across. It's targeted towards a medical audience but there's good logic contained within it:


link: [link to www.youtube.com]

Here's another interview with a german, kind of holistic, doctor. The interview is done by Project Camelot, which I'm highly suspect of... but even a broken clock is right twice a day. Plus it's the interviewee that's of interest here, not the interviewer.

link: [link to www.youtube.com]
She has concluded the following benefits from vitamin D3:
- Bone health
- 16 cancer types
- Infections & Inflammations
- Depression & Neurological disorders
- Colds & Flu
- Immune System
- Tuberculosis
- Periodontitis
- Diabetes

Both of these videos are long, I admit. But if you really want to learn more from those with experience, these are worthwhile IMO.

I give this thread 5*'s and am very interested to hear what others have to say. Good on you OP!

*** the post below is not intended to be interpreted as medical or nutritional advice - please consult your physician before starting any new regimen ***

OP this is soley my experience, but I started taking D3 (5000 IU's per day) almost 3 years ago.

Before taking D3, I would usually get atleast 2 upper respiratory infections a year, sometimes mild one's that would last 7 to 10 days but on occassion they would last 3 weeks or so.

Since I started taking D3 I have not had even ONE cold, sore throat or upper respiratory infection.

I try to tell my wife, and others, to take it but they don't listen and they suffer in the winter months. It's SO easy to prevent the common cold with D3.

I also take several other vitamin supplements, as well as fish oil and krill oil.

You have to take D3 on a regular basis for it to work so don't try it for a week then stop. You will not get much benefit. It takes time to raise your blood levels of D3.

Just my $.02.

I'm glad someone mentioned this right away, we had a great long thread on Vitamin D here some time back and this issue of making sure you get plenty of magnesium came up, it's a really good point.

People get too much calcium as it is, and not enough magnesium. Taking Vitamin D can push the imbalance higher.

Magnesium is critical and we get very little from our food. A lot of supplement forms are poorly utilized. Don't take magnesium oxide, a common, cheap one, one to avoid. I have taken magnesium glycinate and recently magnesium chloride which comes in a liquid form.

I don't wee why not......but you might want to research it on the Internet.


"Vitamin D3 supplementation and pregnancy"


Many babies are born with jaundice......and sun exposure will help it to go away fairly quickly. This happened with my youngest son.

Read somewhere once that long term use of the d3 tablets that contain the calcium based stuff will clog the heart up. Any truth in that ?

To the AC with MS and to Fraeguile,
There is research out there that suggests you should NOT be taking Vit.D if you have an autoimmune disease! Please google the "Marshall Protocol". My son has a Vit.D3 level of 10 and Hashimotos. He was told by an endocrinologist to stay away from this vitamin. I believe the theory is that it revs up the immune system and by doing so it can exacerbate the immune attacks. I honestly don't know what to believe, but you may want to check it out.

Take gel caps or liquid not pills or powder. Much more effective. 5000 iU / day for me.

^^^This makes me somewhat uneasy. Babies concentrate nutrients because they're so tiny. Agressive supplementation seems very unwise whether in utero or if breastfeeding afterwards.
There is good reason prenatal vites are quite weak seeming for a pregnant mother, that is because they can damage development, especially containing Iron or ferrous fumerate you can kill a baby with adult supplements!
No Kidding!

Sadly much of the fish these days is ruined from mercury and other substances.

no need to generalize. You could get huge amounts of natural vid d from the sun and the baby will be more healthy. As for the supplements vit d3 can be dangerous taken in huge amounts only because of the other substances they use in the capsule. like calcium.

The web site looks suspicious to me -- they don't even tell you how long the vials last or how many applications they contain.

I've been suspicious of this issue since the Vitamin D supplementation by prescription bandwagon started. I remember reading at the time (don't have a reference) that the government/AMA? had changed the Vitamin D blood serum range. In the former range eveyone pretty much fell in the normal range, then they changed the range and overnight millioons of people were clinically low. How does that happen? What was the rationale behind the change. I feel like there is more to us than has been let on.

Edit, I just had another thought. Suppose the sunscreen industry is responsible for clinically low levels of vitamin D? Thats a multi-billion dollar industry, hmmmm. They would certainly have a vested interest in the truth not being fully revealed, so just tell the sheeple to take this pill!!!