Healthy Notes » Vitamin D http://guaranteedtosleep.com/blog Helpful Hints For Living Well Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:43:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 What Do I Take? http://guaranteedtosleep.com/blog/2011/10/what-do-i-take/ http://guaranteedtosleep.com/blog/2011/10/what-do-i-take/#comments Sat, 15 Oct 2011 07:04:39 +0000 admin http://guaranteedtosleep.com/blog/?p=94 People ask me often what natural supplements I personally use, keep in mind I am a 45 year old male and the program would need to be adjusted for each individuals own personal needs. I have broken this list into 2 segments, one is supplements I think everyone should or could be taking, this I have labeled the “Base Program”, I think this program is a great start for anyone who is serious about their health. The other, which I have labeled “Health Specific”, is the supplements specific to my own personal health needs. The last entry is a once a week Testosterone Enathate injection that is used for hormone replacement. Look under “Hormone Replacement Therapy” in this blog to see more information on this important subject.

Base Program

Natural Multi-Vitamin (2 a day formula)

Vitamin C ( 2000mgs)

Vitamin E ( 400IU)

Vitamin D (2000IU)

Coenzyme Q10,Ubiquinol (100mgs)

Omega 3, Fish Oil  (1 teaspoon)

Resveratrol (125mgs) super antioxidant

Health Specific

Saw Palmetto (160mg extract) for prostate health

Glucosamine/Chrondroitin  (1500mgs/1200mgs)  for joint health

Niacin (2000mgs) cholesterol reduction

DHEA  (25mgs) hormone replacement

Pregnenolone (25mgs) hormone replacement

Testosterone Enathate (200mgs weekly) hormone replacement

Well, there it is. The goal is not to live forever, but just to feel good for as long as possible. And to this point it is definitely working. I will keep you posted.

]]> http://guaranteedtosleep.com/blog/2011/10/what-do-i-take/feed/ 2 Vitamin D RDA http://guaranteedtosleep.com/blog/2010/12/vitamin-d-rda/ http://guaranteedtosleep.com/blog/2010/12/vitamin-d-rda/#comments Fri, 03 Dec 2010 23:41:34 +0000 admin http://guaranteedtosleep.com/blog/?p=798 A panel of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) looked at all the evidence regarding the Governments Recommended Daily Allowances (RDAs) of natural vitamin D. The 14 member panel has raised the RDAs for vitamin D substantially, but still not has high as many natural nutrition experts wanted. The good news is that even the government is getting on the vitamin D bandwagon although much slower than many of us would like. They have pretty much tripled the recommended dosages.

Here are the latest government recommendations:

  • The RDA for infants from birth to one year doubled, going from 200 IU to 400 IU.
  • The RDA for people aged one to 70 years tripled, going from 200 IU to 600 IU.
  • The RDA for people aged 71 or more goes from 600 IU to 800 IU.
  • The Tolerable Upper Intake Level – the safe intake limit – for adults doubled, going from 2,000 IU to 4,000 IU per day.

The IOM vitamin D panel went on to make these points in its recent press release:

“The report’s recommendations take into account nearly 1,000 published studies as well as testimony from scientists and stakeholders. A large amount of evidence, which formed the basis of the new intake values, confirms the roles of calcium and vitamin D in promoting skeletal growth and maintenance and the amounts needed to avoid poor bone health.  The committee that wrote the report also reviewed hundreds of studies and reports on other possible health effects of vitamin D, such as protection against cancer, heart disease, autoimmune diseases, and diabetes. While these studies point to possibilities that warrant further investigation, they have yielded conflicting and mixed results and do not offer the evidence needed to confirm that vitamin D has these effects.” 

The bottom line is that there is virtually unanimous consent that upping our natural vitamin D intake is the right choice to make.

]]> http://guaranteedtosleep.com/blog/2010/12/vitamin-d-rda/feed/ 5 Higher and Higher D http://guaranteedtosleep.com/blog/2010/05/381/ http://guaranteedtosleep.com/blog/2010/05/381/#comments Tue, 18 May 2010 19:36:11 +0000 admin http://guaranteedtosleep.com/blog/2010/05/381/ In the last few years both natural health practitioners and medical doctors have been recommending increased daily dosages of natural vitamin D.  Most of the doctor’s notes I see today are prescribing 2000 IU each day for adults and 400 IU each day for children. This is a new thing, as little as one year ago I heard very little from the medical community about natural vitamin D, and I was not even taking a daily supplement myself. Then about a year ago I began taking 1000 IU a day, now I have personally increased that dosage to 2000 IU daily. I am recommending 2000 IU each day to my clients, but this could be going higher again. I’ll keep you posted.

]]> http://guaranteedtosleep.com/blog/2010/05/381/feed/ 7 Vitamin D for Immunity http://guaranteedtosleep.com/blog/2009/11/vitamin-d-for-immunity/ http://guaranteedtosleep.com/blog/2009/11/vitamin-d-for-immunity/#comments Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:10:10 +0000 admin http://guaranteedtosleep.com/blog/?p=68 Vitamin D is known as the “sunlight vitamin”, and for years the general consensus had been that we got all our natural vitamin D needs met by the natural sunlight we absorbed. That might have been true when we our species was outside hunting and gathering for survival or working long hours outsider on the farm, but many of us nowadays receive very little or often no Vitamin D from the sun. The other traditional source of vitamin D has been through Vitamin D fortified milk, but many people nowadays limit there milk consumption.

It was also believed over the last couple of decades that because vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin it would accumulate in the body and cause potential toxicity if taking what were once considered unnecessary dosages. Over the last few years because of a large amount of research that has been completed on vitamin D the general consensus on what is needed daily has dramatically changed.

When I first began to notice the dramatic increase in vitamin D sales a couple of years ago most people where purchasing it for cardiovascular reasons. Many studies at that time began to be published about the cardiovascular benefits and doctors began to prescribe natural vitamin D for that reason.

Over the last year or so a new wave of people has jumped on the vitamin D bandwagon, those people that have been advised by their physicians to use vitamin D for its immunity boosting benefits. The most common recommendations are for adults to take 2000IU daily and for children to take 400IU. The recommended dosage of vitamin D seems to be continuing to evolve. I am currently using 2000IU each day myself and will post an update if a change in this dosage is warranted.

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