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Vitamin D yes, K should be okay for adults and children. Babies need K. Our kids both take D and the baby K. You can OD on it so always read a label + take med

Vitamin D yes, K should be okay for adults and children. Babies need K. Our kids both take D and the baby K. You can OD on it so always read a label + take medical advise from a professional, not some random HN post :) Source: my wife, pharmacist (a proper one, she has a doctorate).

vanderZwan 10y ago
I was told by my parents (GPs) that you have to try pretty damn hard to truly OD on vitamin D though - basically chronically overdose; a one-time peak-intake doesn't do much, since the amount of vitamin D we produce on a sunny day is orders of magnitudes more than the maximum amounts advised the boxes. Does your wife agree? I'm always open to a second opinion.
- gumby 10y ago
  > ...since the amount of vitamin D we produce on a sunny day is orders of magnitudes more than the maximum amounts advised the boxes. In general I agree with your attitude but in the case of D, some of us don't make as much where we live as we would if we lived where our parents or grandparents are from. I.e. my skin is darker than the people who have historically lived at the latitude where I live; my Indian grandparents got a lot more sun than I do. My measured D levels are "low" The reason I put the quotes around "low" is: my levels are low for the stated levels in the USA. But who were the study group? How wide a variation is reasonable? Nobody has determined that. It's like the height and growth charts we were shown for our baby -- they were determined in the mid 1900s by doctors who looked at WASPy New England kids. Hmm.. To be fair, these longitudinal studies are almost impossible to do.
- radicalbyte 10y ago
  As an adult, yes. But for kids it's much easier. They can OD on one of the little glass Orbas Oil sized bottles of it. On the subject of drugs and kids: you have to be crazy careful with pills of any kind if you have kids. Both Paracetamol and Aspirin are deadly to kids in adult doses.
XzetaU8 10y ago
Not just any K Vitamin but the superior form K2 http://chrismasterjohnphd.com/2016/12/09/the-ultimate-vitamin-k2-resource/ http://chrismasterjohnphd.com/2016/12/09/the-ultimate-vitami...

vanderZwan 10y ago

I was told by my parents (GPs) that you have to try pretty damn hard to truly OD on vitamin D though - basically chronically overdose; a one-time peak-intake doesn't do much, since the amount of vitamin D we produce on a sunny day is orders of magnitudes more than the maximum amounts advised the boxes. Does your wife agree? I'm always open to a second opinion.

gumby 10y ago
> ...since the amount of vitamin D we produce on a sunny day is orders of magnitudes more than the maximum amounts advised the boxes. In general I agree with your attitude but in the case of D, some of us don't make as much where we live as we would if we lived where our parents or grandparents are from. I.e. my skin is darker than the people who have historically lived at the latitude where I live; my Indian grandparents got a lot more sun than I do. My measured D levels are "low" The reason I put the quotes around "low" is: my levels are low for the stated levels in the USA. But who were the study group? How wide a variation is reasonable? Nobody has determined that. It's like the height and growth charts we were shown for our baby -- they were determined in the mid 1900s by doctors who looked at WASPy New England kids. Hmm.. To be fair, these longitudinal studies are almost impossible to do.
radicalbyte 10y ago
As an adult, yes. But for kids it's much easier. They can OD on one of the little glass Orbas Oil sized bottles of it. On the subject of drugs and kids: you have to be crazy careful with pills of any kind if you have kids. Both Paracetamol and Aspirin are deadly to kids in adult doses.

XzetaU8 10y ago

Not just any K Vitamin but the superior form K2 http://chrismasterjohnphd.com/2016/12/09/the-ultimate-vitamin-k2-resource/ http://chrismasterjohnphd.com/2016/12/09/the-ultimate-vitami...