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Better than Daily

33 items in BETTER THAN DAILY category

Non-daily (Bolus) is better:

  1. Better compliance for everyone
    • Fewer opportunities to forget.
    • If happen to forget, just take the dose many days later
    • Fewer times to have to take a pill - for those who dislike doing so
  2. Non-daily gets more vitamin D to the cells for the ~20% who have a poor Vitamin D Receptor



VitaminDWiki – Weekly, Monthly Vitamin D are typically better than daily - many studies


VitaminDWiki - Take vitamin D3 daily, weekly, or bi-weekly - many studies

The Vitamin D Receptor is activated by high concentration gradient and 13+ other things

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33 Better than Daily studies


Examples of non-daily vitamin D studies (does not include loading dose)

One pill every two weeks gives you all the vitamin D most adults need
50,000 IU of vitamin D every two weeks – Jordan conclusion - RCT July 2017
22 diseases proven to be prevented/treated by biweekly Vitamin D
10 additional diseases with weekly Vitamin D


Some people mistakenly believe that the body cannot store vitamin D, so must be taken daily

  All humans and animals can store Vitamin D, which was necessary to survive rainy seasons, winters, etc.
Example of mistaken belief: Do You Take Your Vitamin D Daily? Grassrootshealth June 2019


Loading Dose in VitaminDWiki

  • Overview Loading of vitamin D - which is sometimes just a single dose
  • Loading dose for Vitamin D category listing has 206 items along with related searches
    • Loading doses typically restore Vitamin D levels in 1 to 30 days
      • Loading doses should be followed by maintenance doses - which can be daily or bolus

Omega-3 is better absorbed weekly than daily (rats fo far)

Omega-3 weekly is more bio-available than daily (rat study) – July 2015

Note: I tried taking Omega-3 weekly instead of daily -Aug 2024
I took 4 days worth of Omega-3 emulsion at a single sitting, once a week
Got an Omega-3 test at the end of 5 weeks__
My Omega-3 index was essentially unchanged from my previous daily dosing. Index = 8


15+ VitaminDWiki pages with BETTER THAN DAILY in title

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Items found: 15

Intervention - non-daily AND Diabetes


Intervention - non-daily AND Pain


270 studies used Non-daily intervention

Diabetes 22;  Better than daily 18;  Pregnancy 17;  Loading dose 16;  Pain - chronic 13;  Breathing 12;  How much Vitamin D 11;  Obesity 10;  Infant-Child 10;  Injection 9;  Gut 8;  Depression 8;  Cardiovascular 7;  Falls and Fractures 7;  Women 7;  Multiple Sclerosis 6;  Virus 6;  Sports 6;  Trauma and surgery 6;  Youth 5;  Seniors 5;  Hypertension 5;  HIV 5;  Sleep 4;  Liver 4;  Skin - Dark 4;  Kidney 4;  Immunity 4;  Cognitive 4;  How;  when to take Vit. D 4 as of Oct 2022


XX+ VitaminDWiki pages have both DAILY and WEEKLY in the title

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Items found: 27
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Increased those taking Vitamin D daily in nursing home from 45% to 78% with a lot of effort (higher % if weekly to monthly) – Oct 2024 14 Oct, 2024
Weekly Vitamin D better than daily – lower cost, less pill burden, perhaps 1.5X better response – meta-analysis Oct 2024 14 Oct, 2024
Weekly, Monthly Vitamin D are typically better than daily - many studies 17 Mar, 2024
Simple vitamin D supplementation - daily, weekly, or monthly - Sept 2023 04 Oct, 2023
Vitamin D given daily, weekly, or monthly has similar response (116 RCTs) – meta-analysis Aug 2023 02 Oct, 2023
Muscles improved in women with 50,000 IU vitamin D weekly (8 weeks) plus daily Magnesium – RCT Sept 2020 16 Sep, 2023
Take vitamin D3 daily, weekly, or bi-weekly 16 Jul, 2023
60,000 IU vitamin D weekly with daily Calcium was safe but not enough in the winter – 2012 13 Jul, 2023
ADHD significantly treated by daily Magnesium plus weekly Vitamin D – RCT April 2021 30 Nov, 2022
Increase infant Vitamin D: forification, daily, weekly, monthly, breast milk - Review June 2022 07 Nov, 2022
Bone biomarkers increased equally by daily, weekly, or monthly Vitamin D (CKD in children in this case) – Nov 2022 02 Nov, 2022
COVID in hospital fought by Vitamin D (25,000 IU daily for 4 days, then 25K weekly) - RCT – July 2022 02 Oct, 2022
HIV treatment augmented by high-dose vitamin D, daily or weekly – Dec 2021 30 Jan, 2022
Weekly Vitamin D plus daily Magnesium is great (reduced depression in obese women in this case) – July 2021 13 Aug, 2021
Pain reduced by Vitamin D (60K weekly, then monthly) plus daily Calcium in 3 months – May 2021 16 Jul, 2021
Depression treated by 50K IU Vitamin D weekly (but not 1,000 IU daily) – meta-analysis Jan 2021 25 Apr, 2021
Weekly Vitamin D to mother after birth much better than daily - RCT Aug 2018 11 Mar, 2019
Vitamin D dosing - weekly may be better than daily – video Aug 2018 02 Sep, 2018
Vitamin D given weekly better than daily (Nursing home, 5,600 IU weekly) – Aug 2018 07 Aug, 2018
Vitamin D taken daily (4,000 IU) vs weekly (50,000 IU) – RCT 2019 23 Oct, 2017
Speculation – Weekly vitamin D dose will be better than daily if poor Receptor 12 Sep, 2017
Vitamin D daily or weekly dosing resulted in similar response -RCT Jan 2016 20 Jul, 2017
5,000 IU daily or 50,000 IU Vitamin D weekly repleted many dark skinned adolescents – RCT Dec 2015 06 Aug, 2016
Nursing home residents need Vitamin D 4,000 IU daily or 50,000 IU weekly – Jan 2016 25 May, 2016
Omega-3 weekly is more bio-available than daily (rat study) – July 2015 24 Feb, 2016
Vitamin D is very important during pregnancy – 4,000 daily or 50,000 weekly - review Jan 2015 02 Oct, 2015
Diabetes treated by 50,000 IU of vitamin D weekly with 1 g Calcium daily – RCT July 2014 14 Sep, 2014


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