But I just found out from my neurologist that I should have been on D3 instead & it is better, especially with absorption.

When I am in constant warm climate….everything hangs lower and increase in libido. See our, 3 Reasons You May Not be Getting Enough Vitamin D this Summer, This Everyday Outdoor Mistake Can Make You a Magnet for Melanoma, Little Sunshine Mistakes that Can Give You Cancer Instead of Vitamin D, http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/01/05/vitamin-d-health-benefits.aspx, How Vitamin D Can Help Slash Your Risk of 7 Different Acute and Chronic Diseases, How Vitamin D Performance Testing Can Help You Optimize Your Health, and Aid the Health Freedom Movement, Cannabinoids mediate opposing effects on…, Are there techniques to make CBDA oil more…, MK-4 (menaquinone-4), a short-chain form of vitamin K2 found in butter, egg yolks, and animal-based foods, MK-7 (menaquinone-7), longer-chain forms found in fermented foods. This is scary… I have been researching Vitamins for over 30 years. New things are discovered everyday.

If you live in an area with little sunshine, you need to use supplements to make sure you have adequate levels of this crucial. Why are you (Advertisement) telling people that this is Toxic to them when it is a Prescription form and Doctors medical opinion for their Patient ? Less than 10 years later, around 1930, scientists noticed that Vitamin D2 did not seem as effective in the treatment of rickets in children (the primary use of the vitamin in those days) as the Vitamin D in cod liver oil. Maybe this article will help you be heard. And his DR told him to. Vit.D3 is very beneficial and can cure lot of diseases, MS, Lyme, Arthritis, etc. Thyroid imbalance depletes vitamin D in the body is what I learned. Unless covered by insurance, D3 can be taken daily.

I refuse to take D2. I have been researching these things since I found out my Vit D2 is <4.0np/ml and my D3 is 12.4np/ml which is severely defficient. Perhaps I don’t have the appropriate link?

I also conclude Big Farma is behind this and other health issue. The popular prescription Vitamin D2, Drisdol, carries the following warning (among others): Why risk poisoning when there is a completely safe way to get all the Vitamin D3 (not D2) you need? I won’t tell anyone not to trust their doctor, but to just remember they are going off what they know & have learned.

I’m going D3. Now I’m at a vitamin D level of 18.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Chris. etc. In that time, I have never heard of “Not being able to overdose from the Sun…”. Hence the study’s conclusion that ergocalciferol should not be used as a supplement. I would not take D 2 if you handed me a million tax free dollars. Thanks so much. Now doctor prescribed d2 50000 per week. My doctor proscribed VIT D 50,000 IU D2 (ERGO) CAPS for me. You can buy a $13 bottle of Carlson’s liquid D3 drops at 4,000 i.u. Hi, I was diagnosed with osteopenia and I take Alendronate 70mg once a week. Read this article from T.H. Drug companies then produced and sold this medicinal form of Vitamin D to the public and to doctors. I’ve never been told what my vit D level is, and don’t know if it’s ever been tested. In the liver, thanks to a particular hepatic enzyme, Vitamin D3 is more readily metabolized into a bioactive form of D that is easily converted to its hormone form in the kidneys. While the vitamin D3 10,000mg, free of all those additives I don’t want, taking 5/10,000 per week is just $16.00 for 100 capsules a 5 month supply.

Of course, I will search about Big Farma. Caution is advised in people with diabetes or low blood sugar, and in those taking drugs, herbs, or supplements that affect blood sugar. If you live in an area where it’s difficult to get sun exposure or if you can’t spend 20 to 30 minutes outdoors a few times a week, then you should be taking at a minimum 600 IU of Vitamin D3 or cholecalciferol daily. Nor have I heard that D2 was inferior to D3. After reading so many different points of view on vit. Looks like they are killing people to get money.

Vitamin D actually helps improve balance and prevent falls, https://www.nap.edu/read/13050/chapter/8#426.

You’re welcome, Marie. (Originally manufactured in Vermont but recently sold to a large corporation that is keeping intact the original ingredients.) Will do that for a year and then report back what the change is in my bloodwork.

I know we are in the minority trying to keep our weight up and I know that being underweight is bad for bones so it is a bit worrying at times.

Thanks.

We are ambushed daily about how harmful it is and in that one sentence you have destroyed your credibility. D2 does not absorb well. Statins sideffects unimanaga me pain. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/calcium-full-story/#calcium-from-milk, im suffering from osteoporosis, im 26 years of age please i need your expert opinion about it. After two weeks of taking it I started noticing that after a day or two the eczema would clear up like it was never there, but a few days before I needed to take the D2 again it would come back. October 2006. So—heads up, THE system will push you to Vit D 2. Of course, while Vitamin D toxicity is impossible through sun exposure, you do have to be careful to avoid getting burned. I don’t know if I should take both or just stick to D3. It would stay in your system quite a while… about 15 days vs 15 hours. All I can find is this in a Medscape article which echoes your assertion: “Traditionally, oral formulations of vitamin D2 and D3 have long been regarded as equivalent in their clinical activity. Caution is advised in people with blood pressure disorders or those taking drugs or herbs and supplements that affect blood pressure. It changes where the pain is. Vitamin D, then, makes muscles stronger in a very direct way.

Get a free copy of ‘Stop The Bone Thieves’, exclusive content that you can’t find anywhere else, plus vital osteoporosis news and updates. Today I am going to share with you some crucial but little-known information about Vitamin D that your doctor simply won’t tell you. My level was 11 and 12 weeks of D2 at 100,000/week moved it to a 29.

I live in the north where I get D3 from the sun for only 3 to 4 months out of the year. No matter what activity you’re doing, your motions originate from and/or move through your core.

Clacium 600 .+D along with this.

Use cautiously in pregnant women at risk of high blood pressure associated with pregnancy. Dont do like I did and wait 12 years…tell them to check your PTH levels. It can be toxic for certain people!! Slnatra and mercona re supplements for atherosclerosis and osteoporosis. ARE U KIDDING ME??? If you live in an area where it’s difficult to get sun exposure or if you can’t spend 20 to 30 minutes outdoors a few times a week, I recommend taking 8,000-10,000 IU once every 3rd day Via transdermal patch. “The case against ergocalciferol (vitamin D2) as a vitamin supplement.” The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. You see, if your blood test results have shown that you are Vitamin D deficient, chances are your doctor prescribed Vitamin D2 (ergocalciferol) supplements instead of D3 (cholecalciferol). Learn how most vitamin D supplements are harmful. Use cautiously in people with headaches, heart disease, immune disorders (including lymph cancer and tuberculosis), kidney disease, liver disease, lung disorders, musculoskeletal disorders, skin disorders, stomach disorders, and thyroid disorders. Remember that there’s no risk of overdosing from the sun. .a clot or unstable plaque (have narrowed carotid) from taking K2! Glad to know you’re proactive about your bone-healthy diet and caloric intake. THANK YOU for the clarification. A research trial gave patients 15,000 IU of vitamin D3 daily for several months and NO side effects were noted. Today I am going to share with you some crucial but little-known information about Vitamin D that your doctor simply won’t tell you.

I also increased my daily multi vitamins from 1 in the am to 2 daily, 1am, 1pm, which is what folks taking multis should take (not the 1 daily the bottle says), and also get a quality supplement that includes Calcium and Vitamin D3, together, never take D alone without Calcium.

The doctor told me the D2 and D3 is suppose to be the same but since my levels went down she is trying me on 50,000 D3 for 6 weeks. This can lead to both liver damage, kidney stones, kidney failure, and other NASTY issues. Thanks, My doc prescribed me vitamins d2 50000iu once a week is that to much. And it takes a long time to get caught up if you’re that deficient.