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I know people freak out about high doses of Vitamin D (even though doctors routinely prescribe very high doses) so I went to find this note I saved for myself a while back:

This article states after beating around the bush that 20,000 IU is safe and probably 50,000 IU is safe and gives an example of an extreme daily dose over months of millions of IU by accident which while it made someone sick did not kill them:

[link to www.painscience.com (secure)]

Here, the stuff about dosing is at the very end of that long article so I'll quote it here:

"Fortunately, there is a wide margin of safety error with vitamin D dosing, especially with relatively short term usage. There is no question that truly excessive vitamin D can be dangerous,30 nor any question that it takes a lot, sustained for long periods. Even megadoses of 50,000 IU/day have failed to cause any trouble, and when supplement baron Gary Null overdosed on vitamin D in his own contaminated product — talk about poetic justice — he was taking upwards of two million IU per day. That nearly killed him, but it still didn’t, and we’re talking about a dose five hundred times larger than the IoM’s upper limit — such a ridiculous number that I’m really only bringing it up as a fun example. Here’s a summary of the safety evidence from Heaney:

Both the intoxication literature and the recent controlled dosing studies have been reanalyzed by Hathcock et al. These authors show that essentially no cases of confirmed intoxication have been reported at serum 25(OH)D levels below 500 nmol/L. Correspondingly, the oral intakes needed to produce such levels are in excess of 20,000 IU/day in otherwise healthy adults and, more usually, above 50,000 IU/day. These findings led Hathcock et al to select 10,000 IU/day as the tolerable upper intake level (TUIL, or UL), with considerable confidence.

I also discussed the toxicity issue briefly with Dr. Hall (quoted above). She agreed that anything under 50,000 IU is unlikely to be toxic (and again that would be especially true for temporary supplementation for deficient patients).

Anything up to 5000 IU is still comfortably within the margins of safety for short term supplementation (several weeks to a few months). There is zero evidence of risks up to that dosage, and the IOM just substracted 20% from that just in case.31 Meanwhile, others are still vigorously arguing that their 7000 IU may be both safe and actually necessary for anyone deficient.32"

Last Edited by Vision Thing on 01/26/2020 12:21 AM

Yep, GLP was on this long before the Media and the Governments got involved.. GLP rocks, getting the truth out there!