Pages tagged with "How much"

287 pages, most important first (overviews, then meta-analyses, then RCTs, then newest). Combine with another topic

• Response to Vitamin D: summary chart of 8 studies
• 200 IU needed to increase vitamin D levels by 1 ng (not 100 IU) – summary of 25 studies
• Overview Veterinary and vitamin D
• Overview Loading of vitamin D
• Overview Vitamin D Dose-Response
• Overview How Much vitamin D
• Testing and treating vitamin D deficiency – Mayo with CME
• With just 200 IU vitamin D in intravenous feeds, deficiency results
• Huge gap between vitamin D advice and actual prescriptions
• Evaluating the vitamin D evidence - Heaney
• Vitamin D reduces many Cardiovascular risk factors (provided doses are personalized) – meta-analysis
• Much more than 2,000 IU of vitamin D is needed daily (Middle East studies agree) – meta-analysis
• Rheumatic diseases not helped by Vitamin D – if you ignore what and how much was given – meta-analysis
• Kidney stones associated with higher vitamin D (but not agree how much 20-100 ng) – meta-analysis
• Diabetes not prevented by Vitamin D (when you ignore how much vitamin D was taken)
• 3X variation in response to dose of vitamin D – meta-analysis
• Hip fractures in India - editorial with recommendation
• Vitamin D: need 30 to 60 ng (50,000 IU weekly) RCT (Russia)
• Autistics have half of the response to Vitamin D – RCT
• 50,000 IU Vitamin D once every 2 weeks – response was 34 ng – RCT
• Chinese women in tropics needed 50,000 IU of Vitamin D monthly to keep above 30 ng – RCT
• 4,000 IU of Vitamin D daily is safe, but takes a year to plateau (Best-D) – RCT
• Vitamin D response: 800 IU: 20 ng, 3200 IU: 45 ng – RCT
• 2000 IU vitamin D not enough to get most Chinese to 20 ng level – RCT
• 10,000 IU of Vitamin D taken daily for 3 years is safe – RCT
• 50,000 IU of vitamin D every two weeks – Jordan conclusion - RCT
• 1700 IU vitamin D (50000 monthly) helped antarctic explorers – RCT
• All preteen aged girls in India taking 2,000 IU of vitamin D got levels above 20 ng – RCT
• 2,000 IU of Vitamin D is not enough to maintain levels above 30 ng – RCT
• Many benefits of 50,000 IU vitamin D every two weeks (methadone treatment) – RCT
• Obese need 2.5 IU of vitamin D per kg to increase 1 ng (about 3.4 X more) – RCT
• Vitamin D given once every two months does not help – proven again – RCT
• 400 IU Vitamin D did not affect menopause (400 IU affects virtually nothing) - RCT
• 7000 IU of vitamin D restored most HIV youths to above 32 ng - RCT
• 1600 IU daily Vitamin D raised adult blood levels above 20 ng – RCT
• Even taking as much as 4200 IU vitamin D 43 percent had less than 30 ng in blood – RCT
• 2000 IU vitamin D raised virtually all Lebanese youths above 20 ng – RCT
• Even with 400 IU of vitamin D in winter, 1 in 6 were still vitamin D deficient – RCT
• 2400 IU raised both black and white women to 40 ng of vitamin D – RCT 2013
• Reasons for low response to vitamin D
• Vitamin D Binding Protein masks how much Vitamin D gets to tissues
• Vitamin D: 40-70 ng is optimal, sometimes more is needed - Grant, Sunil, Pawel, Cheng
• 7100 IU (50000 weekly) got most women to 30 ng of vitamin D
• 34 clinical practice Vitamin D guidelines, huge diversity
• One pill every two weeks gives you all the vitamin D most adults need
• 10,000 IU of Vitamin D for 7 years with no excessive Calcium in 4,800 patients
• Megadose injection of up to 600,000 IU vitamin D3 every three months for adolescents
• Adding Iodine to salt added 11 percent to goiter states income (how much might vitamin D add)
• Canadian Vitamin D recommendations not updated in 13 years
• Vitamin D decreases incidence of disease
• 50,000 IU Vitamin D weekly was the most popular for Breast Cancer
• More Vitamin D needed: Obese, Diabetic, MS, CF, Smoker, etc.
• Finland reduced infants Vitamin D from 4,000 IU to 400 IU (1964-1990)
• Expect increased Vitamin D recommendations up to 10,000 IU daily, etc. in 2026
• US admits math mistake was made in 2010 in estimating Vitamin D, but will not change recommendations
• 40-50 ng level of Vitamin D often recommended
• 40 ng response to 4,000 IU daily Vitamin D for 2 months (and 60 ng for 8,000 IU)
• The 6 reasons that health problems need much more vitamin D to treat than to prevent
• Vitamin D and COVID-19 - How much more evidence do we need - behind paywall
• Health Benefits of Vitamin D - Sunil
• Comparing High-dose vitamin D therapies
• Take vitamin D3 daily, weekly, or bi-weekly
• Vitamin D supplementation guidelines (adults – 50,000 IU per week)
• Have getting 50000 IU Vitamin D weekly for 8 weeks got to 30 ng level
• 4700 IU of vitamin D needed by most seniors – an equation
• Endocrine Society recommend higher vitamin D levels
• Personalized treatment of Vitamin D
• 2400 IU Vitamin D daily to get 90% of children above 30 ng, etc. – Cashman
• Keytruda (175,000 dollars per year) fights some cancers, Vitamin D reduces how much Keytruda is needed
• US RDA Vitamin D math mistakes cost the world about one Trillion dollars annually
• Vitamin D: not one size, type, form, route for all
• Vitamin D responses to as much as 15,000 IU per day
• Increased vitamin D in blood by 56% by taking supplement with largest meal of the day
• Rickets cured for 3 months with 10,000 IU per kg vitamin D (600,000 IU max)
• SciAm - No benefit from more than 20 ng of Vitamin D (nope)
• Vitamin D math mistakes made by the IoM in 2010 – K Baggerly 2016-2017
• Take 50,000 IU of Vitamin D weekly for 2-4 months, then get a test
• How often might 50,000 IU vitamin D be taken - results of clinical trials
• Vitamin D Recommendations around the world - IU and ng
• 60,000 IU vitamin D weekly with daily Calcium was safe but not enough in the winter – 2012
• Children getting 60,000 IU monthly got to vitamin D level of 33 ng
• 5,000 or 10,000 IU Vitamin D for 7 years both safe and effective (4700 patients, 8 months to plateau)
• Recommend 100 IU of vitamin D per kg of infant - Poland
• Response to a large dose of vitamin D (80,000 IU) typically varied by 2 X
• Increased Vitamin D response if take cofactors, etc
• Why do animals seem to need more vitamin D than humans
• Response and adverse effects of 20,000 and 30,000 IU Vitamin D weekly
• 1,200 IU of Vitamin D now recommended if you consume 3,000 calories daily (FDA) – 2018
• FDA considering raising adult Vitamin D, but not for adults who are senior or pregnant
• 1000 IU should be the new vitamin D RDA (if you think 20 ng is enough)
• Response to 1,000 IU of vitamin D daily for 6 months – 40 percent above 30 ng (small study)
• Dosing error gave 12000 IU daily vitamin D to infant, but no indication of any problem
• European call to action for vitamin D
• Every Parkinson’s brain had a gene modification that limited how much vitamin D was available (CYP27B1)
• Vitamin D consensus: 400 IU for infants, less than 10 ng is too low, if low sun need to supplement
• Vitamin D and UV safe and toxic doses - Vieth 1999
• To protect against COVID-19, how much vitamin D – 20 to 50 ng
• How I am reminded to take my Vitamin D once every 4 days
• Myth for 50 years: 2000 IU of vitamin D is toxic - still taught as fact in 2010
• Vitamin D creates autophagy, as does calorie restriction and high intensity exercise
• Dark-skinned hunter-gatherers may generate 2,000 IU of vitamin D daily
• 2000 IU of vitamin D- doctors trained that it was too much, but it is often too little
• PTH needs vitamin D level higher than 13 ng – Cohort
• COVID-19 fought by Vitamin D, how much more evidence is needed
• Expert panel recommends Vitamin D for COVID-19, but fails recommend how much
• Four reasons why vitamin D levels should be higher than 30 ng
• How Much Vitamin D
• How much vitamin D is needed ( perhaps 50 ng for infections)
• Critically ill need vitamin D – how much and which test to use is TBD
• 2 out of 3 people think that they get enough vitamin D, but only 1 in 3 get even the absolute minimum
• Let 1000 die from vitamin D deficiency rather than incur 1 lawsuit
• 50,000 IU vitamin D weekly to avoid Osteroporosis after Breast Cancer
• 60,000 IU dose of VItamin D (weekly, monthly) is popular in India
• 50,000 IU DAILY Vitamin D2 mistake detected after 2 months
• Hypothesis – Optimize vitamin D at home by measuring excess Calcium in urine
• Opinion: sun better than UV better than vitamin D
• 2400 IU of vitamin D needed to get most Northern adults above 20 ng
• Treating Vitamin D deficiency in senior women – such as 50,000 IU daily for 15 days then twice a month – Review
• 10,000 IU Vitamin D daily often needed to get to 40-80 ng (It has been 100 years since it’s discovery)
• Vitamin D DRI for children lowered to 200 IU in Korea
• Vitamin D3 loading dose of 500,000 IU for elderly
• Response by obese to weekly 50,000 IU of Vitamin D
• Higher BMI need more vitamin D
• Biology of Vitamin D – 30ng min., 50ng preferred, 1000X lower cost than health problem
• 2,000 IU Vitamin D if healthy. More if overweight or elderly - Dr. Greger
• Some people need more vitamin D to get the same response – perhaps due to genes
• Poland sets the Vitamin D upper limit to 2,000 IU (wrong)
• Vitamin D - at least 4,000 IU to achieve 40-60 ng and reduce risk of early death – Holick
• Larger doses to those who were more insufficient, got all to 34 ng of Vitamin D
• 40 ng response plateau to 2000 to 4,000 IU of vitamin D
• World Health Organization considering new pregnancy Vitamin D recommendations - behind paywall
• Alaska recommends more vitamin D: Infancy 800 IU, Pregnancy 1400 IU (avoid rickets)
• Vitamin D dose size should increase with body weight (Cystic Fibrosis in this case)
• Vitamin D recommendations by Italian Endocrinologists – 40 ng if pregnant, 30 ng if high risk
• 2 Vitamin D pills per month may be as good as 10 hours of exercise
• Vitamin D levels are dropping rapidly – what you need to do
• Chronic kidney treatment by Vitamin D lacks consensus: type, how much
• Vitamin D needed to treat: 10 ng thru 40 ng
• European adults can take 4000 IU of vitamin D
• Periodontal diseases are treated by Vitamin D - how much is needed, and when
• Vitamin B12 confusion: what test, what level, how much, which form
• Finland increased vitamin D
• IoM error: 8 percent, not just 1 percent, had bone loss when vitamin D higher than 20 ng
• Vitamin D in Ireland – 400 IU for child, more than 3,200 IU by prescription only
• IoM again fails to look at interactions
• Why the IOM Recommendations for Vitamin D Are Deficient
• All older women need vitamin D supplementation to get to even 20 ng (results of modeling)
• Less than half of health providers recommend 600 to 1000 IU of vitamin D (age 1-18)
• Vitamin D math mistake had been made, adults need at least 8000 IU
• 200 IU vitamin D per kg is not enough for some health problems (example– bone marrow stem cell)
• Vitamin D injection helped migrants a bit, but some had poor or even negative responses
• US govt. notices new Vitamin D proof, will wait years for large trials to end
• WHO (mistakenly) still advises against vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy
• Recommended levels of vitamins and minerals - history RDA DRI
• 2400 IU of Vitamin D is need to get most above 30 nanograms
• Review of vitamin D recommendations around the world
• Osteoporosis treatment guidelines by US Endocrinology groups
• Need 460 IU of vitamin D to get half of young Japanese women to even 20 ng level
• Vitamin D Deficiency: Time for Inaction (question mark)
• Took 4 months of 400 IU vitamin D for Iranian infants to get serum level of 30 ng
• Fewer falls and fractures as vitamin D is increased – 1800 to 4000 IU
• Vitamin D needs in 2004:1000 IU, 10 years later same author says 3,500 IU
• An official reviewer of the IOM vitamin D report makes his opinion known
• 2010 recommendations for Vitamin D are Deficient – by 1997 panelists
• Muscle strength in youth increased with 60,000 IU vitamin D per week and 1 g Calcium
• 5,000 IU daily was just enough vitamin D for Irish athletes in the winter
• Review of Vitamin D (including free, frequency, injection, how much.)
• Many fertility disorders associated with low vitamin D, still unsure how much is needed
• 30 percent of vitamin D sold now has more than 2000 IU
• 2900 IU of vitamin D (20000 weekly) kept levels above 20 ng during the winter
• Fibromyalgia helped by Vitamin D – still not sure how much, and why
• Vitamin D dose size needed – VitD testing tells only a portion of the story
• Benefits and risks of Vitamin D - Vieth
• Thoughts on improving vitamin D policies - Vieth
• How much vitamin D and other nutrients do I take
• Respiratory tract infections in childhood – vitamin D is needed, no consensus of how much
• Dose response equations for Vitamin D
• IBD helped by vitamin D but reluctant to state who helped, in what form, and how much – review
• 5000 IU vitamin D (50000 every 10 days) was OK
• Vitamin D dose for 140 lb woman
• Vitamin D recommentations in Danish workshop similar to IoM
• No, do not need 9,000 IU of vitamin D to get most people above 20 ng
• Cost of getting 400 IU of vitamin D from food has risen much faster than CPI
• Telomeres improved when obese blacks took 2000 IU of vitamin D daily
• Yet again – vitamin D levels very low in sunny Saudia Arabia
• Iran giving seniors 5,000 IU of vitamin D - monthly unfortunately
• Your guide to understanding vitamin D – Vitamin D Council
• Vitamin D level can be high, but little benefit: due to kidney, genes, low Magnesium etc.
• Evidence suggests need more than 30 ng of vitamin D to prevent long-latency diseases – review
• Nordic countries upping vitamin D to 400 IU daily (not enough)
• Vitamin D recommended for all animals (FEEDAP does not say how much)
• Endocrine Society Guideline should be raised to 2 ng per 100 IU of vitamin D
• RDA upper limit etc for Vitamin D and Magnesium
• How much vitamin D editorial– Goldilocks Principle
• Clinical Trials update
• Need 75 IU vitamin D per kg of body weight (volume dilution)
• 1700 IU daily average restored HIV vitamin D levels (50000 monthly)
• Controversy: Too much Calcium if increase Vitamin D
• 5,000 IU recommended by Vitamin D Council
• 85% achieved 20 ng with avg of 3300 IU of vitamin D - oral and injection
• Why vitamin D might not help me
• USANA found 5000 IU resulted in 50 ng - Winter 2010
• Vitamin D should be 48 ng to 90 ng – Heaney
• Huge increase in UK vitamin D prescriptions by
• Vitamin D deficiency for children’s bones is 14ng, based on PTH analysis
• Japanese decided that 28 ng mimimum for proper parathyroid hormone
• Probably need 1500-2000 IU of vitamin D, high risk groups need more
• Vitamin D supplementation - Grassroots
• Huge variation in taking vitamin D supplements with age of female, less than 1000 IU not help much
• US Minorities have poor health – how much is due to little sun
• 2000 IU of vitamin D is a step in the right direction for Canada
• Off Topic: Smaller people may live longer due to more benefit from supplements and drugs
• Pathways that vitamin D prevents and treats colon cancer discovered, 2000 IU needed
• European Osteo group recommends 20-50 ng of vitamin D
• Inuit preschoolers were very vitamin D deficient
• Germans, Austrians, and Swiss declare that 800 IU and 20 ng vitamin D is enough
• Finland hopes to double Vitamin D dose for elderly from 400 to 800 IU in 2012
• Programmers Must Take Vitamin D
• Factors Influencing Vitamin D Status
• Guidelines on prevention and treatment of vitamin D deficiency
• 744 IU vitamin D needed by Northern white teens to prevent Rickets
• Best heart geometry associated with vitamin D of 30-37 ng
• Vitamin D levels for women
• NASA thinks spacestation personnel only need 800 IU of vitamin D
• BC elderly median 400 IU only only 3 percent exceed 2000 IU vitamin D
• Half of the seniors needed more than 1700 IU vitamin D3 (50000 monthly)
• Every 400 IU increase of vitamin D3 increases serum level about 8 ng– Systematic Review
• 400 iu of vitamin D is like 24 seconds of sun in a swimsuit in Los Angeles
• To increase vitamin D levels in children need 1000 or 2000 IU
• Intervention of 400 IU of vitamin D raised infant blood levels 14 ng
• Proposed vitamin D Australia UL 3200 IU- 2007
• 2000 IU daily dose of vitamin D would save Germany 37 billion euros
• Germany increases vitamin D to 800 IU
• 1000 mg of Calcium resulted in some problems no matter how much vitamin D
• 930 IU of Vitamin D proposed for far North after review of literature review
• Cadavers with good skeletons had 30 ng of vitamin D
• Low vitamin D levels even when taking 800 IU vitamin D
• Absurdity of 600 IU vitamin D for 10 lb infant or 300 lb adult
• 100000 IU of vitamin D every three months had problems – 2011
• Endocrinology Guidelines for vitamin D revisited – no abstract
• IoM voted for 20 ng of vitamin D – a member hints at 30 ng
• 1500 IU vitamin D minimum - 10,000 IU is safe – review
• 2000 IU raised black teens vitamin D level to 34 ng and they lost fat
• Why vitamin D is not a problem for some youth
• 20000 IU vitamin D and MS – less fatigue and relapse
• 2000 IU vitamin D was safe and helped elderly
• 930 IU vitamin D should get most people to 20 ng – Possible Europe standard
• Half of Canadian elderly achieved 30 ng with just 560 IU
• 800 IU might maintain 30 ng vitamin D
• Vitamin D level recommendations - Bosomworth
• Patients older than 65 needed 5,000 IU vitamin D daily
• Vitamin D level of 50 ng may be too high
• Calcium can create heart problems - vitamin D neutral
• 100 IU increases 1 ng vitamin D – recommend 3000 IU – Book 2011
• Is the Institute of Medicine Report on Calcium and Vitamin D Good Science
• Athletes need 50 ng/ml of Vitamin D – Cannell and Hollis – 2009
• The folly of a single RDA for vitamin D
• Losing weight increases vitamin D level
• Most people are not vitamin D deficient – Consumer Reports
• 100 IU probably does not increase vitamin D in blood by 1 ng
• 800 IU vitamin D in milk did not improve bones of middle-aged adults
• Vitamin D2 repletion – 50000 IU 3X per week is best – 2009
• Interview of C Baggerly about IoM
• Interview of Dr. Cannell
• Vitamin D researchers are taking 2000 to 10000 IU
• IOM vitamin D Nov 30 - what then
• Experts Recommend 10000 IU Upper Limit Vitamin D – 2007
• Osteoporosis Foundation recommends 30 ng
• Vitamin D reporting – scientists take 2000 and 3000 IU
• Vitamin D helps health, perhaps avoid having more than 40ng/ml
• NHANES shows increased colon cancer deaths for men having more than 40 ng
• 2500 to 4000 IU vitamin D would decrease specific disease rates
• Scientists call for vitamin D action 2000 IU and more than 40 ng – 2008
• Upper Limit 2000 IU
• Aortas of 16 year old blacks helped by 2000 IU of vitamin D
• Should You Worry if You Store Vitamin D in your body
• Average of less than 2000 IU of vitamin D2 did not help bone health
• 890 IU of vitamin D and 1200 mg Calcium improved bone density
• Will increasing vitamin D in blood to 100 ng reduce deaths of colon cancer patients
• USDA vitamin D level more than 30ng and 600 mg Calcium
• How much calcidiol or calcitriol is needed to slow aging in mice – 2009
• German seniors safely took 1500 to 3000 IU of vitamin D
• Obese need larger doses of vitamin D – abstract does not say how much
• BMI was excellent predictor of vitamin D levels
• 5700 IU daily equivalent vitamin D for obese did not reduce cardiovascular risk factors
• Fracture healed faster with 20,000 IU on a base of 8,000 IU – Individual observation
• Vitamin D Newsletter