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