Vitamin D Toxicity: Is This a Danger?

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so I wanted to touch on vitamin D toxicity because there’s a bit of fear of taking too much vitamin D when in fact it might not be as scary as you might think this document is by Mayo Clinic and it’s a great article and it says this vitamin D is not as toxic as was once thought a historical and up-to-date perspective so this is just a brief history on why some people are still to this day a little bit scared about taking too much vitamin D and the 40’s vitamin D was used for rheumatoid arthritis but did you realize the amount they were using were between two hundred thousand IUs and three hundred thousand IUs I mean an average person might take six hundred IU’s to a thousand IU’s right there talking 200 thousand to three hundred thousand and the reason this works is vitamin D really helps the immune system and gets rid of inflammation but then in the fifties they were actually fortifying the dairy products and other products but there’s been some complaints from parents with children who had some side effects calcification and the kidneys and even some calcification on their heart valves so the fortification of vitamin D and dairy was banned in Europe but not necessarily in America or Canada or I think even in the UK now years later they found out exactly why these specific children had these problems it was because they had a rare genetic disease called Williams syndrome in which case you don’t want to take vitamin D at all or else you’ll have calcification in the valves of the heart as well as kidney stones so if we take out this rare genetic disease there wasn’t a lot of side effects there was just a lot of benefits so nowadays when you look at vitamin D it always says precaution make sure you don’t take too much you could experience a toxic effect now that statement is in all the textbooks it’s on all the websites so it’s all over the place so people are a bit nervous about that but if you go through this article it would take fifty thousand to a hundred thousand IU’s of vitamin D for months two years before vitamin D became toxic now this is a lot more than what people even consider toxic and when we say toxicity we’re talking about hypercalcemia too much calcium in the blood which could lead to kidney stones however there’s very little evidence if any evidence that shows that taking vitamin D will lead to kidney stones at all so people end up taking smaller amounts 1,000 to 2,000 IU’s per day for a period of time well I did another video which I will put a link down below that shows that if you’re deficient and you take a thousand milligrams it could take four months or longer before your deficiency is satisfied to be able to put autoimmune conditions into remission it does take large amounts for long periods of time and on top of that if you wanted to decrease the risk of any potential for this really what you do is you actually drink 2. 5 litres of fluid every single day and you avoid taking calcium as a supplement and you avoid dairy and that will actually bring the risk for kidney stones way down so you can then have the anti-inflammatory benefits for autoimmune conditions and also realize that anything that I say in this video is not meant to replace your medical care check with your doctor before taking any of my advice and before you go check out this video on vitamin D dosage I think you’ll find it quite interesting