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Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Can I Overdo Vitamin D? Vitamin D Toxicity, Side Effects of Too Much Vitamin D - Dr. Berg

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, Dr. Berg talks about vitamin D and if you can overdo it.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So, I want to answer another question.

0:23.2

Can I overdo vitamin D, okay?

0:26.5

Not from sun, okay?

0:28.4

That's not going to happen.

0:29.7

But yes, you can overdo vitamin D big time.

0:32.8

And I do see people taking large quantities of vitamin D without vitamin K2, okay?

0:42.1

K2 and D3 work together.

0:46.2

So if you consume too much D3 without K2, you can have a buildup of calcium in the soft

0:55.3

tissue parts of the body.

0:56.4

It's called hypercalcium.

0:57.4

Well, this is too much calcium in the blood, but then it trickles off into the tissues

1:01.6

as well.

1:03.2

And the symptoms for hypercalcemia is vomiting, weakness, kidney stones, frequent urination,

1:12.7

excessive thirst, abdominal pain, depression, and heart arrhythmias, okay?

1:20.3

So it can really plug up the body and create a lot of issues.

1:23.9

So vitamin K2 takes the calcium in the blood, in the soft tissue, and puts it into the

1:32.2

bone.

1:33.2

Okay?

1:34.2

So it puts it into the bone, and this is my bone right there.

1:38.0

It doesn't really look like a bone there.

1:41.7

And vitamin D3 helps you absorb calcium from the small intestine up into the blood by

1:47.9

20 times.

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