Vitamin D DANGERS (Must Know)

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Dr. Eric Berg

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🗓️ 23 December 2024

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Summary

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 IUs 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 IUs 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.

It’s best to get your vitamin A from food. Egg yolks, liver, and cod liver oil are the best sources.

DATA:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3627603/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles...

Dr. Bruce Hollis Full Interview:

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The Best and Worst Types of Magnesium:

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0:00.0	Today we're going to talk about vitamin D dangers, which is very different than vitamin D toxicity.
0:07.7	They're not the same. It's extremely rare to develop a vitamin D toxicity, which really involves
0:13.7	only one symptom that's too much calcium in the blood. I talked to Professor Bruce Hollis,
0:19.7	who is the pioneer in vitamin D research, and asked him,
0:22.7	have you ever seen a vitamin D toxicity problem? And he told me never. And he was involved with many
0:29.3	vitamin D studies. You would have to consume hundreds of thousands of international units of vitamin D3
0:34.4	for months to develop any toxicity. And a lot of times people are afraid of even
0:39.2	10,000 international units. It sounds like a very large number. But I want to show you something right
0:44.0	here. See this book right here? This book is called The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics.
0:50.2	And I want to read something on page 1687. The maintenance dose usually ranges between 50,000 and
0:57.4	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
1:07.6	just worked too well and they had to take it out? I have no idea. In order for vitamin
1:11.4	D to work, it's dependent on magnesium. If you have a magnesium deficiency and you take a lot of
1:19.2	vitamin D, you are going to exaggerate that deficiency because the more vitamin D you take, the more
1:25.8	magnesium you need. Both of them synergistically work together.
1:30.0	Even if we think about the main problem with vitamin D toxicity, which is too much calcium in the blood,
1:35.0	take a look at this research paper right here. Magnesium prevents vascular calcification.
1:43.0	Magnesium is a natural calcium channel blocker. Too much calcium can cause
1:48.5	clots. And guess what? Magnesium helps to control that process. Number two, zinc. The vitamin D
1:54.9	receptor is dependent on zinc. When you start taking vitamin D and you're slightly zinc deficient,
2:02.3	that deficiency can be exaggerated because the requirement of zinc goes up when you take more vitamin D3. What are the
2:07.3	symptoms of a zinc deficiency? Your taste is not quite right or your smell. You may get acne or
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