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I want to talk about the difference between Vitamin D2 and Vitamin D3.

Are they the same?

There are physicians that tell you they're exactly the same, there's no difference, but

let's talk about the facts.

First of all, Vitamin D2 mainly is made synthetically.

It does come from mushrooms, but I'll guarantee that the majority of the population do not

get their Vitamin D2 from mushrooms.

Now, Vitamin D3 are animal source foods like fatty fish, salmon, for example, sardines,

red meat, cod liver, and cod liver oil, liver, egg yolks, butter, have the natural D3.

Now, the interesting thing about Vitamin D2 is not a significant amount of studies on

D2, mainly D3, and the studies on Vitamin D2 did not have the decreased mortality benefit

that D3 has.

So if you're trying to live longer with Vitamin D, you're not going to get it from Vitamin

D2, only Vitamin D3.

Now, Litchin and Microalogy has a blend of D3 and D2.

The positive thing about Vitamin D2, it's very inexpensive, but the problem is you need

more of it to see the results, so it's basically less effective.

D3 is five times faster in the conversion, because when you get Vitamin D3, whether it's

a supplement or your food has to be converted to activate it, and that's through the liver

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