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To: Pining_4_TX

Careful now. Vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin, meaning, you take this, it doesn’t just wash out via pee like vitamin C.

“excerpt follows”

Because the body has a built in mechanism for preventing toxicity with vitamin D produced in the skin, there is no risk of vitamin D toxicity due to ultraviolet-B (UVB) exposure - whether from the Sun or a tanning bed.

Supplemental vitamin D bypasses this built-in protection and, if excessive amounts are consumed over a period of time, 25(OH)D blood levels can reach a point where toxicity is possible

http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/about-vitamin-d/what-is-vitamin-d/vitamin-d-toxicity/


7 posted on 08/10/2011 10:30:27 PM PDT by onona (I stand with SARAH !)
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To: onona

Yes, I agree that the sun is the best source of D. In fact, there have been some questions as to whether taking supplements somehow makes the body’s natural vitamin D production from sunlight less effective.

However, the MDR amount of D (400 IU) is now thought to be way too low and will probably be increased by the “experts” soon. I don’t think that 2,000 IU a day would cause problems with toxicity, but everyone does need to be aware that we can OD on D. ;-)


8 posted on 08/10/2011 10:43:52 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX ( The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else. ~)
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To: onona

But according to that article, you’d have to take between 40,000 and 2,000000 IU of Vitamin D to be toxic! That’s pretty hard to do. Maybe the only way someone would do this is to eat a jar of those delicious gummy Vitamin D candies.


14 posted on 08/12/2011 10:12:50 AM PDT by ottbmare (off-the-track Thoroughbred mare)
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