Vitamin D3 Dosage

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Vitamin D3 is a very powerful protection against infection of any kind. Our body makes the precursor to D3 while we are lying in the sun or just running around in our bathing suits. In 20 minutes our body makes about 20000 IU of vitamin D3. In an hour of full body exposure, we would have 80000 IU in 4 hours, 320000 IU and so on. 20000 IU of D3 equates to 0.5 mg of D3 (one half milligram). The bottles in the stores tell us that 400 IU is our DV. It makes us think that this should be sufficient. Most of us don't even know what DV means. We see comments on the internet, in articles, in books and in the media about vitamin D toxicity. They scare us into thinking that we better not take too much. But what is too much? If our body can make 20000 IU in just 20 minutes and even more if we stay in the sun longer, how much is too much? Vitamin D3 is made in three steps or three different processes. 1.The skin makes cholecalciferol (a precursor to D3) in the 5th layer of the skin (stratum basale). 2.From there it goes through the blood to the liver where it is converted into calcidiol, a prohormone. 3.It really doesn't become active until it is converted one more time into calcitriol which is the active steroid hormone that controls the uptake of calcium and performs many other functions in the body. And the body makes that itself when it needs it. The process is self regulatory. The stored calcidiol just stays in the blood or in the fatty tissue until it is needed by the body. Then ...

Vitamin D3 Dosage

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