Vitamin D is a Key Player in Your Overall Health

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live4freedom2 — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:18:31 GMT

I had no idea the impact of Vitamin D and health. I have avoided the Sun for many years and it's no wonder I've suffered ill health all of these years.

I do have some questions that I need answered:

I currently have the flu and I've been very sick. I was taking 2000 mg vitamin C in the powdered form every 2 hours, I took elderberry, astragulas and RM-10, I drank several glasses of Green Tea from India daily and it has been 9 days and though the phlegm is almost gone, the sore throat is almost gone, my family convinced me to go to the doctor to get antibiotics, he gave me

Amoxicilian 500 mg four a day for 10 days. They have helped relieve my symptoms even more, but my question is:

Can I still take my vitamins while I'm taking my antibitotics? or will the anitbiotics kill the vitamins?

will it be beneficial for me to take vitamin D now considering I'm taking antibiotics?

I don't want to stop taking the antibiotics because I don't want to create a resistant bacteria situation by stopping the antibiotics now. what is the best way to deal with this situation?

I'm so grateful for Dr. Mercola and the unbelievable knowledge I've learned from him and from reading advice from the forum !

God Bless and Great Health!

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resonnant — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:40:16 GMT

Did he say 2000 IU per kilogram of body weight? So if I weighed 130 / 2.2 = 59.9 * 2000 =118181 IU's of Vitamin D? Before I risk killing myself (flu or death - hmm?) and since I'm really bad at math I thought I'd check with you.

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Ruthie Bianchi — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:18:45 GMT

Kelley Eidem

The comments you made about vitamin D being dangerous for some people came at just the right time. I am chronically sick and forever trying to find the root cause of it. Lately my doctor found out I was low in vitamin D. My test result was 65 NMOL so that is significently low. She put me on 3000IU of vitamin D drop for 1 week then I was to go down to 2000 IU This seemed right to me from what I read but I never made it to the second week .I started to have bleeding gums and aches and pains that increased to the point it became severe. I got one of my migraines and went off the vitamin D. I have an autoimmune problem and I was told by a Homeopathic Dr that I was catabolic from a thermogram and my symptoms. When I read your comment it helped me get one more piece to my ridiculous reactions to treatments and test results puzzle. My question now is how do you know what is catabolic and what is anabolic? In food and supplements. And if I can't take vitamin D drops is sunshine my only cure for my low vit D problem and can I get too much of that? Do you have your home blog to discuss these issues on? There was another comment you wrote also sinusitis which I have which helped also. I am becoming more and more chemically sensitive and this made a lot of sense if it was the permeability of my mucous membranes like you said. One part of the cure is olive leaf ,which I did before and broke out with a rash all over my body. I can't take much of anything from meds to natural products in large doses.Even when it's low doses over time it seems to build up in my system.Does this sound like the catabolic anabolic problem? Thanks for your help truly and anyone else out there that would like to share your wisdom it's appreciated.

Sincerely Ruth

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healthyjmo — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 20:31:10 GMT

I recently had my blood test done and found that I was deficient in D3 ( 20ng/ml) and my endocrinologist prescribed 50,000 IU's per week ( 1 gel cap weekly) for 2 months and then get retested. The cost at Wal-Mart was about $10.00.She said she thought I would feel a lot better after this supplementation. In the summer I get enough sun but the winters in the Catskills are too cold to be out in the sunshine on a daily basis. I have been diagnosed with diabetes but do not require any medication. I found this article very important as my family has a cancer history and with 5 yrs of antioxidant supplementation I have avoided sickness.Adding the D3 will ensure ongoing good health. I am not a lover of cod liver oil so I opted to go this route. In the drug stores the highest IU I found was 2000 IU's. Maybe a health food store would have higher amounts. You MUST to be pro active with doctor's these days. I sent this article to my endocrinologist and she was very impressed and so if you do not ask to be tested, most MD's will not just test for this as they have no time or take no time to do the research.I do think that some of them really appreciate it when a patient does their homework. These days a MD sees you for 15 minutes and then forgets what you look like! Thanks to Dr. Mercola we can all get healthy and help to educate many in the medical community.

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Heather Marsh — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:14:11 GMT

en.wikipedia.org/.../Catabolism

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Heather Marsh — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:10:54 GMT

en.wikipedia.org/.../Anabolism

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JOANNE — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:12:46 GMT

I have high calcium and high parathyroid hormne, but I do not have an adnoma on my parathyroid, and, yes my vitamin D level is low along with a lot of other minerals. I read on the parathyroid.com site that it is dangerous to take Vitamin D if you have elevated calcium is this true

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vossanova — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:14:00 GMT

What causes catabolic/anabolic imbalance and how do you know that you actually are too much of either?

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ExJohnson — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:37:54 GMT

Islander,

I don't know if you researched it or not, and I don't see an answer from Kelley Eidem, so here's my understanding of CATABOLIC vs ANABOLIC (like the steroids). Catabolic refers to a tearing down and destruction of tissues, whereas anabolic means the building up of tissues. There are lots of steroids out there, but only anabolic lets you build up muscle mass unnaturally. I have crohns, which is generally accepted as a catabolic disease, since my immune system is attacking me. Cancer growth in a person is characterized as anabolic (a pesky cell which the body tells to die refuses and then multiplies). They are both deeply linked with the immune system. If I'm taking Kelley Eidem's advice seriously, I would probably never take a Vitamin D supplement as a Crohn's patient. But I love being in the sun, and it does me good.

Kelley Eidem seems to be a pretty good voice. I'm trying his yeast cleanse approach, which he puts out for free and doesn't sell a single product for it. He just puts the information out there. Him and Barack might have a lot in common. That was a jokey joke.

ExJohnson

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dominoes — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:36:12 GMT

Here is an article with additional studies on vitamin D and how much sun is appropriate with children, sunscreen to use, proper clothing, sunlight sensitivity due to meds, Astaxanthin, and suggestions for burns. Just wanted to share: www.bluedominoes.com/getting_ready_for_the_sun.php

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Kathy000000x — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 22:46:38 GMT

If a specialist tanning booth helps, I'm all for it! It so grey, cold and rainy here in England.

I feel so much better when I have been out in the sun. Research about the benefits of sunshine has been done in the UK with amazing results! Patients health improved drastically after they had been out in the sunshine over a period of one week.

We should not live as if we are bats. We need the sunshine. Can you imagine a world without light?

However the beauty industry needs to sell its products. Also, the Chemical Face Peels make people vulnerable as it strips the protective layer that is essential.

The best solution for good skin is a good dose of the golden stuff.

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Don Fletcher — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:47:32 GMT

We should probably be trying to keep our thinking in separate categories, one for people with special problems, one for majority of people unless we have a reason to combine the thinking.

I have observed that my area, the great lakes basin, has a low level of solar input all winter, and our area appears to have an unusually high incidence of type 2 diabetes and a variety of cancers. Many people in this area might do well to get more winter sun, if not in a tanning bed then perhaps in an outdoor space that faces south, south east or south west and which has a reflective surface that concentrates the sun to the middle. It would be ideal if this space could be rotated to avoid having cold wind and still get the sun.

We can get more sun in winter this way if we can not afford a tanning wall.

But perhaps we also need more magnesium. We may need magnesium particularly where our soil is magnesium and sulfur deficient and we are trying to live mostly on local foods.

Why this comes up, my protocol for prostate cancer calls for a combination of Calcium, magnesium, and D. but on doing a blood test they decided I needed only D and magnesium. D and magnesium appears to limit bone pain in this case. But then I discovered that if I am controlling my diet so that I produce no flow of insulin, I also get no bone pain even when I am not supplementing with magnesium but getting outdoor sun.

Attempting to generalize from this case would be unwise, but I do wonder what parameters are involved.

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gooddayz — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:14:02 GMT

These are all very interesting and informative posts on Vit. D. I am very interested in the recommendation of 2000 IUs of Vit. D per kilogram of body weight, taken as one dose, every day for three days to wipe out the flu. A 140 lb adult would be about 309 killograms. That would be 618,000 IUs at one dose!!! That would almost seem toxic.

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Midas1 — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:37:05 GMT

I was taking Vitamin D supplements, had my level checked and it was 14!!! I'm now on emulsion Vitamin D-Forte 10,000 IU per day. Next level will be January 2009. Vitamin D has implications for MS. MS patients, especially in Colorado, would do well to have levels checked and started on a decent, well-asorbable brand of D. A lot of diseases treated conventionally get worse and worse because drugs prescribed in and of themselves cause multiple other issues. I believe disease is an imbalance and until the imbalance is treated, the disease will progress. I have never seen the heatlh care system at such a dismal point where it is simply big business. An epidemic of good health is not what the industry wants--it pays to keep disease going because the more drugs prescribed, the more Big Pharma benefits as well as most doctors getting paid by the same. ....

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schnauzermom — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:20:33 GMT

bobinpanama, I went to another MD a few years back. He stated all this leaky gut stuff (which I do believe in). But when he came down with his meal replacement stuff to detox my system along with all these supplements an such I had to take to a tune of $600.00 per month that who really knew how long I had to take (purchase) THAT rose a HUGE red flag. One can heal with organic foods, pure water and stay away from processed foods. No one needs $600.00 worth of processed stuff to get well! If one consumes healthy, their body should not need all that other stuff.