These deliver to the USA
120,000 iu for GBP 15 rather than 3000 iu for USD 8
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Beth
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That is what I’ve been taking. $18 US for 60 pills, 2000iu each
Free shipping if you order a few packages.
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Have you got any test results back yet? I have some. I find 1 pill a day cannot maintain a high level of 25OHD, but 2 pills results in the 25OHD increasing. What the steady state is yet is not clear and as it is summer time I am getting more UV D3 anyway.
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Beth
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Here you go!
I started taking 1 VitamoreD 2000iu daily on 2/25/25
For over a year, and during this test, I’ve been getting 2000iu of cholecalciferol daily in my Blueprint multi.
Until I started taking the VitamoreD, I was taking an additional 5000iu of cholecalciferol 3-4 days per week.
Lab Date - Vit D ng/ml
03/21/25 - 72
10/10/24 - 69.2
03/25/24 - 69
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@John_Hemming @Beth I ordered 3 packs of the VitamoreD. I’ll retest at the end of the Summer. Thanks.
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Maybe consider getting a prescription? Mine cost less than 50 for 50k IUs once a week, for 6 months. Went from 26 to over 50 ng/mL.
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Like you vitamin D supplements only got me so far 48 after several years of avoiding the sun.
Added a little sun 20 minutes every 3-4 days with supplements bounced up to 70. A good number.
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@Agetron I am hoping for some sunshine magic. I now live next to a lake where I walk 2.5 miles every day. So far I’m not getting much UV as I’m walking at 6pm but the weekends (if it ever stops raining) are my best bet. In the Summer my efforts will shift to avoiding too much UV, but one thing at a time.
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sol
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Considering I truly avoided the sun, but upped my supplements - not only my weekly Maximum D3 with 13,000 iu… but a daily 2,000 iu D3 gummies. My D levels were okay at 48. But with sun closer to 80.
This week…I took full advantage of the Dallas sun at the resort pool every other afternoon.
And, because of lower cell turn over with rapamycin… my tan grows not only faster… but stays longer too.
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@Agetron Lucky man. I walked in 45F (9am) sunshine and then 60F windy sunshine (3pm) yesterday. I got exposure on my legs and face only for about 1.75 hours. Today will be better I’m told.
I think my current Vit D level of 38 is fine as far as Vit D goes. I need more full spectrum sunshine. Taking more Vit D supplements to get higher Vit D is not be the right move for me. I need to get more sunshine or at least get outdoors more despite cold or rainy weather. It’s my own fault so I’ll fix it. Come on Summer!
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I definitely think that sun exposure is physiologically important for vitamin D, retinal light exposure, infrared.
Quick 30 minutes shirtless morning around 7 am jogs when it warms up in Arizona feel great before work.
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Dr Brads perspective on the vitamine D question.
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First - Stanfield is really great - I often send patients his videos for certain content areas as he is spot on.
He could be right, he could be wrong on this. The problem with the data he is utilizing to support his approach, is that only the supplement amount rather than the blood level is known (in most cases, including every study the endocrine society sources).
If you don’t measure, you have garbage in garbage out.
Target D showed that the US RDA for those deficient was not very effective - actually I think almost 50% of people required 5000 IU (not the 800 IU RDA) and 13% of people required>10000 IU daily to achieve a therapeutic level.
So until we have studies looking at blood levels in those in these studies, I think we have no basis for conclusion. We certainly know low blood levels are associated with bad health outcomes in multiple domains. Until we have data showing that those who have higher blood levels due to supplements rather than sun exposure, have the same bad health outcomes as others with low levels of Vitamin D without supplementation, I don’t think we have no basis to claim that Vitamin D doesn’t at least have some causative relationship.
We might get there once we have the appropriate data.
I’ll have to disagree with Dr. Stanfield on this one - I don’t think we have absolute evidence for supplementation, but I also don’t think we have evidence to support not normalizing and measuring Vitamin D.
I’d also point out with the osteoporosis/fracture stuff - all of my patients are on Vitamin K2 MK7 also 200 mcg or more daily. It’s concerning with the findings on this - but we need to know the outcomes when taking a reasonably evidence based approach of K2 with Vitamin D are.
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Common vitamin D… supplement could slow ageing, study suggests | BBC Science Focus Magazine
A slowing of aging by 3 years. Nice!
Vitamin D has been a daily supplement - I have a score of 70… when I get a bit of sun in tandem.
Started taking it daily in 2020 in response to Covid - was seen as a preventative supplement to the virus.
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Yes… I too am getting bullish.
Combination weekly sun and D3 supplements.
Vitamin D Deficiency Symptoms: early signs your body is begging for sunshine
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I did an experiment recently when my vitamin D levels went below 90 UK units which is 36 USA units. I found I started niggly little aches. So I drove my 25OHD up to about 230 (which is over 80 USA units) and the niggly little aches went away - not immediately, but over a period of about a week.
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10,000ui daily for almost a decade and my levels are only 75. I also live in a subtropical country.
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It would help to know the units because 75 in SI is 30 in US.
However, it may be that some 25OHD would help.
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