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I think you need to maintain your 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels above 30 ng/mL. For my patients and for me personally, I like for it to be between 40-60 ng/mL or 25-hydorxyvitamin D to guarantee vitamin D sufficiency and its health benefits.
It is essentially impossible to get an adequate amount of vitamin D from dietary sources on a daily basis. We have always depended in the past on sensible sun exposure as the major source of vitamin D which we have now abandoned.
Teenagers and adults need a total of at least 2,000 IU of vitamin D a day. Taking 14,000 IU of vitamin D weekly or 50,000 IU of vitamin D every two weeks has been should to be effective in maintain the blood levels above 30 ng/mL in teenagers and adults.
Ralph and other experts are sure to chime in.
Ralph Lotz wrote:Ralph and other experts are sure to chime in.
Owen's vitamin A and D comments are accurate.
However, using large doses of any substances, even orthomolecular ones that appear not to be immediately toxic is a form of chemotherapy, and should be used prudently.
Nutrients, minerals and phytochemicals at even very low levels have a profound effect on genetic expression, activating and/or silencing the genes that direct the synthesis of the millions of proteins that keep us alive and healthy.
Why use a hydrogen bomb if a flyswatter works?
Dr. Rath has proven that nutrient synergy works in over 102 published studies.
Based on my personal lifelong combat with HSV-1, HSV-2 and Herpes Zoster, vitamin C, Lysine and vitamin D3 (start with 50,000 IU until infection subsides) are at the top of the list. Effective virus killing helpers are quercetin, green tea, myrecetin and kaempferol, and eating apples, red onions, berries, broccoli and tea along with the supplements has worked miracles for me.
Recently I discovered a supplement called Nutracidin from VRP, which should really kick viruses in the butt:
http://www.vrp.com/immune-system/nutracidin
I am curious about your recommendation of 50,000 IU of Vitamin D. Can you expand? I have never seen a recommendation that high for Vitamin D. Isn't 20,000 IU considered the ceiling?
Ralph Lotz wrote:I am curious about your recommendation of 50,000 IU of Vitamin D. Can you expand? I have never seen a recommendation that high for Vitamin D. Isn't 20,000 IU considered the ceiling?
50,000 IU - 200,000 IU daily for a few days is known as "stoss" therapy in Europe. These amounts are used at the outset of an infection and are not routine everyday doses. If these doses don't show relief of symptoms in 3 days, D3 is not the answer. Such large doses of D3 may increase induced expression of the human cathelicidin antimicrobial peptide (CAMP) gene. Cathelicidin
is an important part of our innate immune system.
5,000 IU is my routine daily dose.
I have 4 grown children and 4 grandchildren. 3 of them are health professionals. We all use stoss therapy when needed, and have for years.
stoss therapy
http://www.google.com/search?q=stoss+th ... =firefox-a
Can you get the same effect using a U-V tanning bed for three straight days for a certain duration?
Ralph Lotz wrote:Can you get the same effect using a U-V tanning bed for three straight days for a certain duration?
I think that you would fry yourself.
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I reached my bowel tolerance level @ 22g. Do I maintain a daily dose of 20-21g forever? I also take 3000mg of L-Lysine and 6000 IU of Vitamin D. Do I need to increase my L-Lysine?
ofonorow wrote:I reached my bowel tolerance level @ 22g. Do I maintain a daily dose of 20-21g forever? I also take 3000mg of L-Lysine and 6000 IU of Vitamin D. Do I need to increase my L-Lysine?
Regarding tanning bed - if UV/B then probably a good idea, but I am sure that tanning beds also include UV/A (which tans!) and so Ralph is probably right! UV/B spectrum is what causes skin to turn cholesterol into vitamin D.
As far as vitamin C bowel tolerance - this can change as the underlying stress is resolved. So probably not forever, unless you are fighting a toxic load or long term infection, etc. Good idea to keep at bowel tolerance until resolved, and according to Cathcart's chart, most people who are not sick or under stress fall into a range of much less.
ofonorow wrote:Yes, although if it is only suppressed, and not eradicated, then the tolerance might not change. Forgive me, did we recommend http://www.orthomed.com/titrate.htm? Worth reading.
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