The Big Lie about Vitamin D
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 9 May 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast, we’re going to talk about vitamin D toxicity. If you take high doses of vitamin D3, you may experience some symptoms. It is more likely that you’re experiencing symptoms of a vitamin K2 or magnesium deficiency rather than vitamin D toxicity symptoms.
Magnesium deficiency is incredibly common. If you’re not taking enough magnesium while you’re taking vitamin D, you may begin to notice the following “vitamin D toxicity symptoms”:
• Irritability
• Insomnia
• Constipation
• Fatigue
• Muscle spasms/cramps
• Calcium buildup
• Arrhythmia
Coincidentally, these are also symptoms of low magnesium and low vitamin K2.
There are case studies involving vitamin D toxicity; however, the subjects did not take vitamin K2 or magnesium. In many cases, they were taking vitamin D2 rather than vitamin D3.
You don’t want to take calcium when testing for vitamin D toxicity because one of the symptoms of vitamin D toxicity is hypercalcemia or too much calcium in the blood.
According to Wikipedia, some symptoms of vitamin D toxicity are due to vitamin K depletion. Vitamin K2 is essential to prevent calcium buildup in the soft tissues. Vitamin D helps increase calcium absorption in the small intestine by 20 times.
Therapeutic doses of vitamin D can be beneficial for many health conditions. The Mayo Clinic only recommends 600 IU of vitamin D when 30 to 40 minutes of sunlight provides about 20,000 IU of vitamin D3.
Therapeutic doses of vitamin D can be especially beneficial for autoimmune conditions. Dr. Coimbra from Brazil utilizes a vitamin D protocol involving up to 200,000 IU.
If you’re taking vitamin D supplements, also take magnesium and vitamin K2. You also want to ensure adequate boron, zinc, and vitamin A intake.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm actually convinced that there's no such thing as a true Vitamin D toxicity problem. |
| 0:08.4 | Now what I'm not saying is that a person, if they take higher amounts of vitamin D, they won't get some symptoms, |
| 0:14.6 | but the actual cause of those symptoms, |
| 0:17.6 | I don't believe is coming from high doses of vitamin D3. |
| 0:22.1 | I think it's coming from a deficiency of the cofactors for |
| 0:26.3 | Vitamin D, primarily from a magnesium deficiency and a Vitamin K2 deficiency and there's a couple others as well. |
| 0:35.0 | So now we know most people are deficient in magnesium going into this. |
| 0:38.8 | So if you're not taking enough magnesium, |
| 0:41.4 | why you're taking Vitamin D, I think you're going to start noticing |
| 0:45.0 | some of the symptoms that people call Vitamin D toxicity, which are irritability |
| 0:52.0 | insomnia, constipation, fatigue, muscle spasm or cramps, calcification, calcium |
| 1:01.8 | that builds up, and arrhythmia, but they're also symptoms of low magnesium |
| 1:08.1 | as well as symptoms of low vitamin K2. |
| 1:12.4 | I mean if you just look at the case studies or some of the studies of |
| 1:15.6 | Vitamin detoxicity you don't normally see they're taking magnesium with it. They're not taking |
| 1:22.0 | K2 with it. Many times they're taking |
| 1:24.7 | Vitamin D2, not D3 as well. Now you don't want to take calcium when you're |
| 1:30.6 | testing for vitamin D toxicity because the symptom is hypercalcemia, which is too much calcium in the blood, |
| 1:36.6 | why would you want to take calcium? Doesn't make sense. |
| 1:38.8 | Now I found something interesting on Wikipedia, I want to share with you it said it is possible that some of the symptoms of |
| 1:44.8 | vitamin detoxicity are actually due to vitamin K depletion and they're talking about vitamin K2 and yeah I think we already knew that. |
| 1:54.0 | Vitamin K2 is needed to prevent the calcium from building up in the soft tissues. |
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