What happens if you take too much vitamin D? In this video, we’ll discuss the vitamin D dangers you should know about. Learn how to avoid vitamin D side effects, which are very different from vitamin D toxicity.
0:00 Introduction: Vitamin D dangers
0:10 Understanding vitamin D toxicity
1:10 Vitamin D and magnesium
1:53 Zinc and vitamin D
2:20 Vitamin K2 and vitamin D
2:33 Vitamin D and vitamin A
3:11 Vitamin D supplements
4:12 Food sources of magnesium
4:48 Zinc and vitamin K2
DATA:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3627603/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5794996/
Dr. Bruce Hollis Full Interview:
▶️ https://youtu.be/QAQ7r6jLEww
Maltodextrin in Supplements:
▶️ https://youtu.be/4p3SqQn9izs
The Best and Worst Types of Magnesium:
▶️ https://youtu.be/7lSQ2hnycLg
Vitamin D toxicity is very rare and typically involves too much calcium in the blood. Even Dr. Bruce Hollis, a pioneer in vitamin D research, has never personally seen a case of vitamin D toxicity. To develop vitamin D toxicity, you’d have to consume hundreds of thousands of IU of vitamin D3 for months!
Vitamin D needs magnesium to function properly in the body. The more vitamin D you take, the more magnesium you need. Magnesium prevents vascular calcification, the main problem associated with vitamin D toxicity.
The vitamin D receptor is dependent on zinc. Like magnesium, your zinc requirements increase when you take vitamin D. Zinc deficiency symptoms include an altered sense of taste and smell, acne, flaky skin, and lowered testosterone.
When you increase your vitamin D intake, you’ll need more vitamin K2. Vitamin K2 helps prevent the buildup of calcium and also helps to drive calcium into the bones and teeth.
The active form of vitamin A, called retinol, is also an important cofactor for vitamin D. Vitamin A receptors sometimes bind with vitamin D receptors as a complex. Vitamin A also helps keep calcium out of your arteries.
Always take vitamin D3, not D2. Vitamin D2 is less potent and is typically synthetic. Avoid synthetic vitamin D3 supplements and supplements with fillers such as maltodextrin or glucose syrup.
Leafy greens, chocolate, certain nuts, and pumpkin seeds are the best food sources of magnesium. When choosing a supplement, look for magnesium glycinate. The best food sources of zinc are red meat and shellfish. If you take a zinc supplement, consume it in a blend with other trace minerals.
For every 10,000 IU of vitamin D3 that you take, you’ll need 100 mcg of vitamin K2. MK7 is the best form. Vitamin K2 is found in high-quality grass-fed butter, kimchi, sauerkraut, grass-fed beef, and eggs.
When using high doses of vitamin D, always check with your doctor. High doses of vitamin D can increase blood/urine calcium levels resulting in calcium deposits in the kidney. Also drink 2.5 liters of fluids per day, take cofactors with vitamin D (magnesium, K2 and zinc) and have your doctor monitor your PTH, vitamin D blood levels and creatinine and avoid excess calcium supplements of high calcium foods when taking vitamin D levels over 10,000 IUs.
It’s best to get your vitamin A from food. Egg yolks, liver, and cod liver oil are the best sources.
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Thanks for watching! I hope this helps you understand the truth about vitamin D toxicity. I’ll see you in the next video.
today we’re going to talk about vitamin D dangers which is very different than vitamin D toxicity they’re not the same it’s extremely rare to develop a vitamin D toxicity which really involves Only One symptom that’s too much calcium in the blood I talked to Professor Bruce Hollis who is the Pioneer in vitamin D research and asked him have you ever seen a vitamin D toxicity problem and he told me never and he was involved with many vitamin D studies you would have to consume hundreds of thousands of international units of vitamin D3 for months to develop any toxicity and a lot of times people are afraid of even 10,000 international units it sounds like a very large number but I want to show you something right here see this book right here this book is called the pharmacological basis of Therapeutics and I want to read something on page 1687 the maintenance dose usually ranges between 50,000 and 250,000 units daily a few years later if you look at the textbooks it’s down to between 400 and 600 IUS maybe it just worked too well and they had to take it out I have no idea in order for vitamin D to work it’s dependent on magnesium if you have a magnesium deficiency and you take a lot of vitamin D you are going to exaggerate that deficiency because the more vitamin D you take the more magnesium you need both of them synergistically work together even if we think about the main problem with vitamin D toxicity which is too much calcium in the blood take a look at this research paper right here magnesium prevents vascular calcification magnesium is a natural calcium channel blocker too much calcium can cause clots and guess what magnesium helps to control that process number two zinc the vitamin D receptor is dependent on zinc when you start taking vitamin D and you’re slightly zinc deficient that deficiency can be exaggerated because the requirement of zinc goes up when you take more vitamin D3 what are the symptoms of a zinc deficiency your taste is not quite right or your smell you may get acne or flaky skin or even lower amounts of testosterone because zinc is needed to build up testosterone vitamin K2 this is another one you should take what is vitamin K2 do helps to prevent the buildup of calcium the other function is to drive this calcium into the bone and the teeth the last nutrient co-actor for vitamin D3 is vitamin A and I’m talking about the active form of vitamin A called retinol The receptors for vitamin A actually sometimes bind with vitamin D receptors as a complex they both work together if one of them is lacking the other one won’t work optimally vitamin A also helps keep calcium out of your arteries if you become deficient in vitamin A you’re going to notice that it’s hard to see in the dark at night you potentially can have dry eyes dry skin lowered immune system maybe even some acne I’m going to bring up three additional things on this topic number one I always recommend to take vitamin D3 not vitamin D2 it’s not as potent it’s made synthetically I would avoid it and I would definitely avoid taking any synthetic vitamin D3 you want to get a natural source of vitamin D3 and lastly many manufacturers when they make their vitamin D have hidden molto extran or they might put in glucose syrup they put this starch as a filler they use it because it’s a very cheap ingredient and most companies that sell vitamin D3 use these fillers there’s a very simple way you can test this you open up the capsule mix it in some water Okay add a few drops of iodine and if it turns dark purple suspect a starch this is called the starch test and you can detect hidden maltodextrin and other starches in your supplements if it doesn’t have it in there it’ll just turn yellow or just slightly clear let’s go back to magnesium what are the foods high in magnesium anything leafy green because green is chlorophyll and at the heart of chlorophyll you have magnesium also you can get magnesium in chocolate just get the one that doesn’t have the sugar if you’re going to do chocolate and also magnesium is in certain nuts but I would be careful about consuming too many nuts pumpkin seeds have a lot of magnesium and if you were going to take a supplement I would take magnesium glycinate magnesium glycinate is easily absorbed and I would take 800 or more I’ve known people who needed to up the Magnesium like 2400 milligram to get rid of their cramps zinc where do you get zinc from red meat shellfish are two very good sources and if you’re going to take zinc as a supplement make sure it’s also in a blend of other trace minerals just to make sure that you don’t create a copper deficiency if you take it over a long period of time vitamin K2 let’s say for example you’re doing 10,000 IUS of D3 then I would recommend you take a 100 micrograms of vitamin K2 for every 10,000 international units of vitamin D3 and the version of K2 I would take would be mk7 you can get it from high quality grass-fed butter kimchi sauerkraut consuming grass-fed beef eggs and then we get to vitamin A vitamin A is not beta kerene beta carotene is in like plants vegetables don’t try to get your vitamin A from vegetables it’s not going to work I highly recommend you try to get your vitamin A not from a pill but from food egg yolks liver but my favorite source is cod liver oil why because cod liver oil not only has the omega-3 fatty acids but it also has a nice balanced blend of vitamin A and vitamin D together since I did mention the word vitamin toxicity if you haven’t seen this video you should check it out I put it up right here
