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Can anyone here help demystify how "oral calcifediol (0.532 mg)" maps to an equivalent amount of Vitamin D in the form you can buy in a drugstore?
by koboll 6y ago
Can anyone here help demystify how "oral calcifediol (0.532 mg)" maps to an equivalent amount of Vitamin D in the form you can buy in a drugstore?
- gremlinsinc 6y agoI don't know, but I take 5000 ius a day and because of my gastric sleeve I'm still somehow deficient. So upped it to 7500 ius by adding a multivitamin. I'm also O positive (which means I won the damn blood lottery for covid hehe), but overweight, so gotta hedge my bets as best as I can. I also take zinc.
- delecti 6y agoI take 5000 IU pills, and they're labeled as 125 mcg. The 0.532mg pills they were getting would thus be around 4.25x as much, or a bit over 21,000 IU based on how D3 is usually labeled for over-the-counter purchase. Though my pills are "cholecalciferol" not "calcifediol", so there's not a perfect 1:1 correspondance, but your body converts cholecalciferol into calcifediol, so based on nothing else my above calculation is probably not far off.
- unibic 6y agoThis is equivalent to 106400 IU of Vitamin D bought from a store.
- cortesano 6y agocalcifediol (0.266 mg; 15,960 IU calcifediol) https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2016124724A1/en https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2016124724A1/en so may be 32.000 IU ???