2,500 IU Vitamin D is the max dose size in Canada

Notice: Prescription Drug List (PDL): Vitamin D Feb 2021

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• Optimal level of vitamin D is 40 ng, 93 percent of Canadians do not have optimal levels – Oct 2017

• Increasing the vitamin D level of all Canadians to 40 ng would save 6 to 18 billion dollars a year – Grant Nov 2016

  • VIrtually impossible with 2,500 IU/day

• Canadians have a hard time getting 1,000 IU of vitamin D from the sun – July 2015

• Vitamin D very popular with Canadian seniors having complex medical problems – Jan 2019

  • 7% took more than the govt recommended upper limit of 4,000 IU of Vitamin D

• US admits math mistake was made in 2010 in estimating Vitamin D, but will not change recommendations – Nov 2017

• Vitamin D math mistake had been made, adults need at least 8000 IU – July 2017 8,000 not just 2,000

• Take lots of Vitamin D at first signs of COVID 50,000 IU being sold by scores of companies on Amazon US, just south of Canada

• Is 50 ng of vitamin D too high, just right, or not enough

• 4 X fewer visits to Dr. after getting high level of vitamin D (Interview with transcript) - Jan 3, 2022 US doctor

• COVID-19 mortality extrapolates to zero at 50 ng of vitamin D – 18th Meta-analysis Sept 2021

• BioTech Pharamcal 2,000 IU of vitamin D max to   :2022: Austria, Belgium,Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom     Note: Canada is not on the list

• NutraSal ships to many countries

  NOTE There are scores of other US vitamin D suppliers that routinely ship larger dose sizes to individual customers in Canada