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Well, you've inspired me to go pick up some D3.

Well I'm 60 and my doctor being new to me and the last fuqk loosing all my records ordered up complete blood work. He told me don't change whatever you're doing. I don't take any vitamins. A lot of very smart people maintain vitamins have been promoted light years beyond their usefulness over the last 50 years. (A pattern with big pharma). I happen to believe this.

edit to add- I do eat well though a big salad every day, lots of nuts, whole grain cereal for breakfast. Other than that I eat what i want, lots of meat etc. I do this because 10 years ago I wasn't so healthy.

Your best bet is to get 10 minutes of sunlight on the skin. Take off your shirt and put on shorts and get a full body charge of sunlight, if possible.
Cold weather here but I did get 5 good minutes today.

Plus I take 5,000 IU every day.

Vitamin D is critical and every year they come up with more benefits that it has for us.

I worked in a hospital for 14 years and I heard more than one doctor making fun of vitamins. You gotta watch doctors, they are a combination of arrogance and ignorance.
They think they know it all, but they don't. Plus doctors make money from prescriptions, and they can't make any money from vitamins since they are readily available, thus many docs just ignore vitamins. Ignorance.

Most of us do need vitamin supplements, especially B vitamins and Vitamin C.

I'm not sure VitD levels are checked in routine blood work. Every test costs money.

On my plan I think they'll pay for complete tests every other year. Also I edited my post after you quoted it to say I pay attention to eating mostly healthy stuff.

Okay. I'm not trying to win an internet prize. Does not matter to me either way whether you have had your vitD tested.

In Alaska low D is a common problem.

most Big Pharm doesn't make vitamins, cant patent anything and margins aren't high enough

smaller independents mostly

Docs don't play with vitamins because they cant monitor the results to see if any changes have occurred.


their usual cop out is, "If your eating the right kind of foods you'll get the vits. you need" then pass it off down the line. the same folks that invented the glycemic index.

Actually, a nutritionist at Cancer Treatment Center in IL told us that the folks with the lowest Vitamin D come from Arizona and New Mexico.
She said it was because we all wear long sleeves to combat skin cancer.

Tossed salad

LOL

As always, a good thread by Etoh.

Many thanks.

Oldest daughter is an FNP. She has wife and I on 2x13,000 D3 once a week. IIRC, she said that lethal dosage in blood serum was approx 120. Highest level that she had ever personally seen was by a body builder "heavy supplementer" was approx 80. She did not figure normal supplementation would raise blood serum levels anywhere near high enough to be problematic...

As far as multi vitamins, there are MANY variations in levels and content. Even within the same brand. I've been doing 2x Centrum Silver for Men daily for the past couple years. While there are only minor differences in levels between the Centrum Silver for Men versus the same for women, there are some huge differences between the Silver and regular Centrums. Likewise levels between the solid tablets and the "gummies" vary as well...

Read the labels...

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I have been taking a multi vitamin (Walmart brand, over 50), 3 1000 IU vitamin D, and a 500 mg vitamin C every morning with my other meds. Last week I started taking a 50 mg Zinc with them. That gave me terrible runs so I stopped.

Question, is 3 1000 IU vitamin D doing any good or should I take more? And what of the 50 mg Zinc, they shouldn't be giving me the runs should they?

No one can tell you if 3000 iu D is right for you. Everyone needs bloodwork to get a baseline before you supplement D. As far as zinc, 50mg can cause diarrhea in some people. You said you take a multi. How much zinc is in the multi? Most likely the combination is too much for you. If you took 25mg zinc plus your multi you'd probably be fine.

Thanks

Nice, Thanks Etoh, for decades I've taken daily:

Mens multi
20,000 iu VitD 3
Calcium/Magnesium/Zinc
Tumeric

As well as at least a teaspoon of cinnamon on something for breakfast.

Been taking the Centrum Silver for men over 50 for years. Couldn't find it the last time I looked, so bought some One A Day that are supposed to be the same thing. Was in Walmart yesterday, and did pick up some bottles of Vitamin D3 1000's.

My D was low, Doc prescribed a 50,000 unit Vit d2 to take once a week. After the levels are up take a 5000ml D3 daily. I must have crested the hill at 50years because it been all down hill ever since. LOL!

Saw this on a video ....