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The values are always very individual, both in terms of uptake and varying production qualities. I'd suggest people check their values every other month or so

The values are always very individual, both in terms of uptake and varying production qualities. I'd suggest people check their values every other month or so to make sure their values aren't too high. Especially those taking higher grade units, some pills are >5000iu.

mantas 6y ago
Isn't high value for Vitamin D not a problem? Human body can deal with too much Vitamin D by storing it efficiently.
- eptcyka 6y ago
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D_toxicity https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D_toxicity Whilst overdosing is hard, its not impossible. There is no such thing as storing vitamins, or in fact, any nutrients _for free_. Edit: am I wrong? Ingesting too much fat will be bad for one's health, ingesting too much carbohydrates, minerals, protein will be too. The same goes for any vitamins. There's no _efficient way to store anything_ if you ingest too much of it.
  - poilcn 6y ago
    Can't say about them all, but Vitamin A could be stored in the body for like half a year after taking high dosage supplements. Of course, there is a limit, much higher dosage are harmful (the widely known polar bear liver toxicity as example).
    - eptcyka 6y ago
      This does not apply to all of the vitamins and is more of a special case behavior for Vitamin A.
  - thatcat 6y ago
    Generally water soluble vitamins have low retention time while fat soluble vitamins have high retention and are riskier to supplement.
    - eptcyka 6y ago
      Vitamin D is fat soluble.
      - thatcat 6y ago
        Yea, I know. It bioaccumulates. I was telling you that's the mechanism of action for vitamin retention, not whatever you thought about your body saving some for later.
- nextaccountic 6y ago
  It can lead to kidney stones.
  - darkmagnus 6y ago
    Everything leads to kidney stones, it seems.
kjakm 6y ago
>> I'd suggest people check their values every other month or so to make sure their values aren't too high. I recently spoke to my GP about this and was told they don't usually bother testing people for Vitamin D levels in the UK because most of us would be deficient. She recommended supplementing (I believe 4000 IU) all Winter and suggested possibly continuing throughout the entire year.

mantas 6y ago

Isn't high value for Vitamin D not a problem? Human body can deal with too much Vitamin D by storing it efficiently.

eptcyka 6y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D_toxicity https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D_toxicity Whilst overdosing is hard, its not impossible. There is no such thing as storing vitamins, or in fact, any nutrients _for free_. Edit: am I wrong? Ingesting too much fat will be bad for one's health, ingesting too much carbohydrates, minerals, protein will be too. The same goes for any vitamins. There's no _efficient way to store anything_ if you ingest too much of it.
- poilcn 6y ago
  Can't say about them all, but Vitamin A could be stored in the body for like half a year after taking high dosage supplements. Of course, there is a limit, much higher dosage are harmful (the widely known polar bear liver toxicity as example).
  - eptcyka 6y ago
    This does not apply to all of the vitamins and is more of a special case behavior for Vitamin A.
- thatcat 6y ago
  Generally water soluble vitamins have low retention time while fat soluble vitamins have high retention and are riskier to supplement.
  - eptcyka 6y ago
    Vitamin D is fat soluble.
    - thatcat 6y ago
      Yea, I know. It bioaccumulates. I was telling you that's the mechanism of action for vitamin retention, not whatever you thought about your body saving some for later.
nextaccountic 6y ago
It can lead to kidney stones.
- darkmagnus 6y ago
  Everything leads to kidney stones, it seems.

kjakm 6y ago

>> I'd suggest people check their values every other month or so to make sure their values aren't too high. I recently spoke to my GP about this and was told they don't usually bother testing people for Vitamin D levels in the UK because most of us would be deficient. She recommended supplementing (I believe 4000 IU) all Winter and suggested possibly continuing throughout the entire year.