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Posted on 01/04/2011 6:27:35 AM PST by decimon
I took 40,000 units a week for two months to get back to normal levels. That was a year ago, and I seem to be holding steady now.
"Getting too much calcium from dietary supplements has been associated with kidney stones, while excessive vitamin D can damage the kidneys and heart."
Those were truly the good old days...our idea of doing drugs was trying to slip cigarettes from our dads.
All those beached whale people are going to be overdosing on the stuff ~" <<<<
I'm not entirely clear if I'm familiar with that specific symptom, but I'd presume that they are meaning some type of ANOREXIA, known to be due to D-toxicity.
I suppose LOSING A KIDNEY could also be a similar form of "weight loss."
I am curious though, if I may have had that very reaction decades ago when I tried out... I think it was the Air Force Diet, and if it wasn't that one, then it was the Quick Weight Loss Diet -- I was relying upon canned red sockeye salmon for the daily protein, and within a month I'd not only lost weight but entirely lost my appetite for food.
LOL
Is it possible that a HIGH-FATTY-FISH diet might be responsible for so-called Will Power?
Also, I'm positive that one would need a teen's high burning metabolism to see such impact so fast. AND I do not recall the horrendous aches, the muscles, the joints, the nerves acting like they've been plugged into an electrical outlet.
Luckily my symptoms recede within weeks of quitting Vitamin D supplementation. I must be REALLY REALLY REALLY healthy since I obviously have such high D-Levels. [/s] [[lol]]
VERY interesting stuff sometimes.
Do you have pernicious anaemia? Or any kind of anemia?
Pernicious anemia is a permanent and persistent shortage of B-12.
You let that go on too long you go gnuts ~
There are some interesting medical pieces in Scandinavian medical research journals regarding hereditary B-12 deficiency. It’s pretty common there ~ particularly in the FAR NORTH and we know who lives there.
I don’t see them pointing to the Kven people on that one though. I think they’re recognized as being undifferentiated from non-Sa’ami Finns.
BTW, there’s no information that shows that folks who eat red beets regularly, or take B-12 sublingual pills ever develop Alzheimers.
B-12 sublingual is packed in dried red beet juice BTW.
Take no chances.
Well, then, since so many millions of Americans have an ancestor from early New Sweden which was populated by Saami foresters -- there must be an epidemic of B-12 Deficiency in this country.
Are you saying that NOBODY who takes Vit.B-12 *ever* develops Alzheimer's Disease, or are you making some kind of joke that I'm too dense to catch?
So, yeah, people with an ancestor or two, or a hundred, or a thousand in and among the original New Sweden or York PA settlements probably have an hereditary B-12deficiency.
The B-12 and beet notes have been discussed earlier. The most recent one using "beet" in the title is at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2619626/posts
You'll also want to go to http://www.webmd.com/alzheimers/news/20101018/vitamin-b12-linked-to-lower-alzheimers-risk to get started.
Simultaneously with the US and British reports on the topic the Scandinavian researchers put out their own stuff showing a negative correlation of Alzheimers in folks on what amounts to a strictly seafood and meat diet ~
Beets darned near disappeared from grocery store shelves. I went to the local Safeway and took their last two cans! (BTW, that was my first trip outside the house except to the doctor in months ~ the eye thing).
VERY interesting!!
I’ll particularly keep an eye out for the Scandinavian research, I’ll bet that warmed the hearts of the Atkins Diet folks.
Beets?
No thanks.
I’ve been taking 5000ui of D with my multi vitiamin for over 2 months now. I feel great and haven’t caught any of the illnesses that have proliferated at work and home. My husband (yes we sleep in the same bed) has not given me 3 different cold and or flu bugs he has faught with in the same time frame. Usually I get sick along with the rest of my household. And I’ve never had a flu shot....
Hmmm....
I try to get everyone to take a vitamin and extra D, and they do sometimes. But I’m the only one that does it daily....
I also just added a OMEGA 3/6/9 gel pill to my daily.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq1t9WqOD-0
During flu season I try, make that mostly haphazardly, to get on a vitamin regime including vitamin D3 (has to be the “3”). The recomendation was 3000-5000 during the H1N1 scare. I checked the medicine cabinet last month when there were outbreaks in Europe and Asia and we’re good to go. Knock on wood, it’s not hit here yet but if/when it does I’ll probably bump it up to 3000 and start filling up the little dosage containers for everyone again.
Thanks for the PING!
Thanks hennie pennie.
FReeper darnright pointed me to a blog that includes some good general info on vitamin D. Getting vitamin D right. Don't recall seeing before that the vitamin D in milk is often D2, not D3. Would expect that years ago but not today.
FReeper LucyT pointed me to this: H11N1 strain isolated in one Eurasian Spoonbill: Report (flu types). I thought it had some good basic info on flu types, especially avian flu.
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