Vitamin D Myths - OTHER

Oil-based Vitamin D is OK
- Nope - Oil-based D is not OK if no oil at the meal or no gallbladder
Only need Vitamin D
- Nope - Cofactors are needed if take >4,000 IU (Magnesium, Vit K, Omega-3, etc)
Can get enough Vitamin D from food
- Nope: No longer does meat, lard have much Vitamin D as it used to
- Nope: No longer do people eat much fatty or wild caught fish
- Nope: No longer do people often eat organ meats
- Nope: No longer does food have enough Magnesium to utilize Vitamin D
Very little Vitamin D in meat and eggs
- Nope: Studies rarely consider the semi-activated form Vitamin D
- underestimated the amount available from meat and eggs by a factor of 6 to 9
- the total Vitamin D (un-activated and semi-activated) is still ~5X less than it had been
>10,000 IU can be toxic
- Nope - Large doses are OK if cofactors are taken correctly
Blood test: Indicates how much Vitamin D is getting to tissue
- Nope - Vit D can be limited by one or more of 5 genes downstream from Vit D test,
- especially the Vitamin D Receptor gene
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