« previous: The iPad | next: Villaraigosa Orders 1000 City Employee Layoffs »
Vitamin D Test Results: I Won
I got my Vitamin D3 test results last week: after taking 5000 IU of D3 daily for about 3 months, the level of "Vitamin D, 25-OH" in my blood is 75 ng/ml. The results sheet says that the reference range is 32-100 and that "the range considered by most experts as optimal for health" is 50-70. The Vitamin D Council says 50-80:
Quoting Vitamin D Council:
The body does not reliably begin storing cholecalciferol in fat and muscle tissue until 25(OH)D levels get above 50 ng/ml. The average person starts to store cholecalciferol at 40 ng/ml, but at 50 ng/ml virtually everyone begins to store it for future use. That is, at levels below 50 ng/ml, the body uses up vitamin D as fast as you can make it, or take it, indicating chronic substrate starvation—not a good thing. 25(OH)D levels should be between 50–80 ng/ml, year-round.
The test results sheet also has this to say about toxicity:
Be aware that Vitamin D levels greater than 150 ng/mL may lead to toxicity and high calcium levels. This may be dangerous. These levels are only achieved with supplementation, so if you are supplementing with high levels of Vitamin D (greater than 10,000 IU) then testing is strongly recommended.
Comments:
Reply to this message here:
[ Home – Create Post – Archives – Login – CMS by Encodable ]