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Excessive Vitamin D Intake May Elevate A Fib Risk
Family Practice News ^ | 11/29/11 | MITCHEL L. ZOLER

Posted on 02/04/2012 12:51:48 PM PST by neverdem

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Atrial Fibrillation aka A Fib

An arrhythmia is a problem with the speed or rhythm of the heartbeat. Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common type of arrhythmia. The cause is a disorder in the heart's electrical system....

AF can lead to an increased risk of stroke. In many patients, it can also cause chest pain, heart attack, or heart failure.

Page last updated on 03 February 2012 Topic last reviewed 18 January 2012

N.B. Watch your units! Some studies reported 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations in nanomoles per liter, while others reported results in nanograms per milliliter.

P.S. I just saw this story in the hard copy version of the January 2012 issue of Family Practice News.

1 posted on 02/04/2012 12:51:53 PM PST by neverdem
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To: Pride in the USA

Important FYI ping!


2 posted on 02/04/2012 12:52:59 PM PST by lonevoice (Klepto Baracka Marxo, impeach we much.)
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To: neverdem

OK.. my first thought was... Vitamin D makes you lie?

lol


3 posted on 02/04/2012 12:54:27 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: neverdem

I thought maybe Eric Holders intake of milk caused him to lie like a rug.


4 posted on 02/04/2012 12:54:46 PM PST by Dedbone
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To: Yehuda; Yaelle; goodwithagun; Squantos

I believe that at least two of you have made comments about vitamin D supplementation.


5 posted on 02/04/2012 12:58:29 PM PST by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: neverdem

Pardon my ignorance - what is considered an ‘overdose’ of Vitamin D??

My SO is a chronic/recurrent A-FIB sufferer, and has been taking 5000IU of D3 for the past year - could this be of concern to her??


6 posted on 02/04/2012 12:59:04 PM PST by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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To: neverdem

But it is pretty difficult to get your blood level up to 100.

I supplement to get to 60 and it takes 14,000 iu to get it there. But since getting to 60 instead of 24, I stopped getting all colds and flus even while pregnant. No matter what I’m exposed to, I simply don’t catch it. Having enough D keeps cancer away too.


7 posted on 02/04/2012 12:59:39 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: GeronL
OK.. my first thought was... Vitamin D makes you lie?

What makes you write that?

8 posted on 02/04/2012 1:02:14 PM PST by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: neverdem

I occasionally have exercised induced A fibs and I am an elite athlete type. It is pretty scary stuff because they often show up months or years apart. I wasn’t as worried until I read about the stroke risk. Scary stuff. I am back to the cardiologist. Anyone else deal with exercise induced or just general A fibs?


9 posted on 02/04/2012 1:04:30 PM PST by GOP Poet
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To: neverdem

In their “doctor” segment on FNC today, he said some people are really over-medicating themselves and that high levels of D-3 are associated with all sorts of major problems. You may be able to find reference to what he had to say at FNC web site. It was quite interesting.


10 posted on 02/04/2012 1:05:28 PM PST by Matchett-PI ("One party will generally represent the envied, the other the envious. Guess which ones." ~GagdadBob)
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To: neverdem

lol.

fib. Tell a fib lately??


11 posted on 02/04/2012 1:05:40 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: neverdem

‘What makes you write that?

A fib ( a lie)

get it
I thought it was very funny

and I also would like to know the safe dosage


12 posted on 02/04/2012 1:06:42 PM PST by RWGinger (Simpl)
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To: Yaelle
Have to admit my wife and I just got over bad colds, although our supplementation is more like 2,500 -5,000 IU/day. But this was at least the first bad cold I'd had over a couple years of D3 supplementation.
13 posted on 02/04/2012 1:07:11 PM PST by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture (Could be worst in 40 years))
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To: Uncle Ike

After taking 10,000 IUs daily for 3-4 years, my blood test shows a Vit D level of 76, with 30-100ng being the normal range. (I get very little Vit D from the sun)


14 posted on 02/04/2012 1:07:35 PM PST by OwenKellogg (Gingrich / Robinson 2012!)
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To: neverdem

A fib is caused by magnesium deficiency. So are low levels of vit D. Some people are taking very high doses of D because they can’t get their levels up but their levels won’t go up until they start taking the right kind and right amount of mag.


15 posted on 02/04/2012 1:10:28 PM PST by spacejunkie2001
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To: Dedbone
I thought maybe Eric Holders intake of milk caused him to lie like a rug.

White or chocolate?

16 posted on 02/04/2012 1:11:13 PM PST by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture (Could be worst in 40 years))
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To: neverdem
More B.S. studies from Big Pharma that wants you dependent on their prescription drugs.

These people that produce these pseudo studies do not have a Soul.

17 posted on 02/04/2012 1:12:52 PM PST by Sprite518
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Vit D level of 76

My last test came back at 4. Back on the big dose again. The Sun just isn't doing it for me.

18 posted on 02/04/2012 1:13:25 PM PST by Glenn (iamtheresistance.org)
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To: Glenn

read #15


19 posted on 02/04/2012 1:14:56 PM PST by spacejunkie2001
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To: neverdem

It’s almost impossible for anyone to get close to taking too much vitamin D. Your body can make far, far more of it than you’d ever normally take in vitamin form. Further the body takes in vitamin D inefficiently as with many vitamins so you’re not going to absorb 100% of the vitamin D you’d be intaking anyway.

The author fails to not that the vast, vast moajority of problems people have associated with vitamin D is being DEFICIENT in vitamin D, not having too much.

This basically is a horsepucky article.


20 posted on 02/04/2012 1:15:29 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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