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No Consensus on Optimal Vitamin D Dose
Posted in General Support group on Sun, 20 Sep 2009
The newsletter is wrong. You cannot make vitamin d in/on the skin unless the sun is at or near its peak. Vitamin d formation requires hard UVB which is absorbed by the atmosphere.
Large doses (>40,000IU) of vitamin d over a long period of time (months) will cause problems. 10,000IU is accepted in the medical literature as perfectly safe. Most people need a supplement of at lea...
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