Vitamin D Lethal Dose in Dogs – 1934

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No human trials have been made for Vitamin D lethal doses

But, trials were have been made with dogs -the observed LD50 is a single 88 mg/kg

For an adult human weighing 75 kg this amount (for dogs) would be 6,600 mg = 264,000,000 IU

Note - the most Vitamin D you can get in a bottle is 100 X 50,000 = 5 million IU per bottle

A person would have to consume 52 bottles of vitamin D to commit suicide

• There are many much easier and cheaper ways to commit suicide
  • table,
  • breathe inert gas such as Nitrogen
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_methods
• Oklahoma asking to use Nitogen to execute prisoners March 2018

• Overview Toxicity of vitamin D note Toxicity extremely rarely results in death

• Overview Veterinary and vitamin D

  • Lethal dose which will kill half of the rats (LD-50) = 17 mg/kg of rat = 680,000 IU per kg

• Death from Vitamin D overdose - 600,000 IU daily for 3 weeks - April 2016 = 12.6 million IU

  • Resulted in death of a small boy. Wonder if 3X higher dose would have killedl an adult

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