Is It Safe to Take 10,000 IU of Vitamin D3? Dr. Berg Explains
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 30 December 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Today, we’re going to take a look at vitamin D. Every cell and tissue in your body has receptors for vitamin D. However, there is still no medical consensus on what vitamin D deficiency is.
Many people are deficient in vitamin D. Vitamin D deficiency can negatively affect your immune function and can cause inflammatory conditions like arthritis, autoimmune disease, depression, and high blood pressure.
Vitamin D toxicity is very rare. Symptoms of vitamin D toxicity mirror the symptoms of vitamin K2 deficiency. This poses the question—do you have too much vitamin D or just not enough vitamin K2?
Vitamin K2 is intricately involved with the transportation of calcium, while vitamin D helps with the absorption of calcium from your gut into your blood. Vitamin K2 keeps calcium out of your soft tissues and strengthens your bones.
A lot of the confusion surrounding the RDA of vitamin D has to do with its measurement—international units. An international unit is an arbitrary number agreed on by some committee, and the amount varies from vitamin to vitamin. For example, one international unit of vitamin E is not the same as one international unit of vitamin A.
Several factors affect the absorption of vitamin D:
•Skin color
•Age
•Weight
•Insulin resistance
•Stress level
•Genetics
•Geographical location
•Season
•Gut health
•Liver health
•Gallbladder health or removal
Vitamin D is intimately involved in the immune system and plays a crucial role in the function of Helper T cells. Helper T cells prevent our immune systems from harming our own tissues. If you have issues with your Helper T cells, you could potentially develop an autoimmune disease.
Adequate intake of vitamin K2, magnesium, and zinc helps keep vitamin D active and prevent vitamin D toxicity. Plenty of water is also very important.
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| 0:00.0 | So is it really that safe to take 10,000 I use a Vitamin D every single day? |
| 0:06.0 | That's what we're going to talk about. |
| 0:08.0 | Did you know that every single cell and tissue in your body has receptors for vitamin D, and yet there's actually still |
| 0:15.2 | no medical consensus or agreement on what a vitamin D deficiency really is. So I even think a better question than is 10,000 I use of |
| 0:25.7 | vitamin D safe. We should ask is it actually safe to be deficient in |
| 0:29.8 | vitamin D. The great majority of the population is deficient and they have all sorts of problems ranging from |
| 0:36.4 | a lowered immune system to arthritis to autoimmune problems and inflammation, depression, high blood pressure. |
| 0:43.2 | And most of the research that came up with the RDA's for Vitamin D, I think roughly it's about 600 |
| 0:48.4 | IUs were based on preventing rickets, things like that, but not therapeutically to address all the other issues |
| 0:57.0 | like autoimmune problems and severe infections. |
| 1:01.0 | So there's a couple of very important things for you to know. Number one, |
| 1:04.0 | Vitamin D toxicity is very rare. Okay, that's number one. Number two, the |
| 1:08.9 | symptoms for Vitamin D toxicity are almost identical to a Vitamin K2 deficiency. |
| 1:17.0 | In other words, do you really have too much Vitamin D or just not enough vitamin K2. |
| 1:23.0 | Vitamin K2 addresses two proteins, mainly, |
| 1:26.0 | and they mainly have to do with the transportation of calcium. |
| 1:29.0 | So, vitamin D helps the absorption of calcium |
| 1:32.0 | from your gut into your blood by a factor of 20 x and then |
| 1:36.0 | Vitamin K2 drives that calcium from the arteries into the bone. |
| 1:42.0 | So two big functions of Vitamin K2 is keeping calcium out of the soft |
| 1:47.0 | tissues, not just the arteries, but the joints, the kidneys, the lungs, other tissues, as well as making your bones really, really solid. |
| 1:56.2 | And I'm talking about dealing with osteopoeia or osteoporosis. |
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