Vitamin D3

Austin TX

Description

If you had to choose one supplement, Vitamin D is it. In the recent Covid outbreak, an Indonesian study of about 800 hospitalized patients showed that only ~4% of those in ICU or dead had a Vitamin D level about 30 ng/ml. In other words, 96% of those patients who walked out of the hospital after only a mild to moderate disease had levels above 30 ng/ml. Unfortunately, you cannot get that level from being in the sun unless you live on the equator. You must supplement at a level that actually elevates your D above 50 ng/ml to get both the anti-viral effect and the anticancer effect. Vitamin D is a "secosteroid", a multi-function molecule that is key to energy balance, important in body composition, cancer prevention, obesity and diabetes. It improves bone, decreases dementia, decreases arrhythmia, and is generally essential to good health--because it heals the ends of the DNA molecule. The active form, Vitamin D3 is really your most important anti-aging hormone. The current recommendations of 400-2000 iu/ day are woefully out of date and too low. Nature gives people who live near the equator 30,000-40,000 iu a day from the sun. I myself take 10,000 iu a day, and believe that someday even this will be shown to be too low. In any case, in people not on renal dialysis, there has never been an overdose of Vitamin D3 reported at 10,000 iu a day. The minimum for adults I would recommend is 5000 i.u. a day, and if you are obese, black, or Hispanic you might consider going above that to the 10,000 i.u. a day. After being on a Vitamin D regimen for at least 2 months check your level. In 2018 a study done by Creighton University and UC San Diego demonstrated an 80% decrease in breast cancer in women whose D levels were over 60.