Re: Vitamin D def - Me too - test + Rx » zana

Posted by Larry Hoover on April 15, 2007, at 18:19:05

In reply to Re: Vitamin D def - Me too - test + Rx » natrfrk, posted by zana on April 14, 2007, at 11:31:44

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> My gyn routinely tests me for vitamins and hormones which might effect depression. In a normal range of 20-100 she found me at 10 and put me on a prescription dose of 50,000 IU once a week for 8 weeks. It sounded so high I checked with my PCP who said it was a protocol she used. My gyn also recommended continued supplimentation after return to normal ranges.
> Zana
Here's a new review of vitamin D safety, in which it is argued there is no risk of vitamin D intakes of 10,000 IU/day.
http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/85/1/6
I also just read an abstract to an article that showed that greater than 50% of all pregnant women in the NE U.S. were deficient in vitamin D (70% among blacks).
Lar

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