7 Ways to Boost Your ABSORPTION of Vitamin D ~ Dr. Eric Berg

In fact, almost every single cell in your body has receptors for vitamin D.

The RDAs, the requirements for vitamin D are way too low.

They're like 600 IUs.

Now, that was based on preventing bone loss, but they didn't take in consideration all the other functions of vitamin D to protecting against inflammatory conditions, to having an immune system.

And based on all the research and what I'm going to talk about, I recommend the average person get about 10,000 i use a vitamin d every single day as a maintenance dosage especially in winter now if you're getting a lot of sun you definitely don't need that now at first glance 10 000 iu seems like a lot of vitamin d right Well, we're talking about international units, and if we convert this to micrograms, okay, not grams, not milligrams, but micrograms, it's 250 micrograms, okay? That is only 0.25 milligrams.

That's one-fourth of one milligram, okay? So that doesn't sound like very much, does it? Now, as far as the toxicity levels of vitamin D...

So the studies based on that, and I did a separate video on this, are based on people taking hundreds of thousands of IUs for months.

And the biggest side effect is hypercalcemia, which is too much calcium in your blood, which could increase your risk for kidney stones.

So if you have any thoughts at all about toxicity levels of vitamin D, Just consume 2.5 liters of fluid every single day.

Why? Because that will prevent kidney stones, okay? I mean, that's really easy to do.

And also, just don't take calcium supplements in any large amounts.

So you wouldn't want to take the typical one a day with the calcium carbonate, okay? If you did these two things, you would greatly reduce your chance of the biggest side effect from vitamin D if you're concerned.

Now, when I talk about 10,000 IUs of vitamin D, I'm talking about a maintenance dosage.

If you're trying to use that for certain conditions, I would recommend going up to maybe 20,000 to 30,000 to 40,000 IUs.

Now, the other thing you need to know about vitamin D is these requirements that you need, you just cannot get it from your diet.

You just can't get it from your foods.

There's just not enough vitamin D in foods to get what you need.

So you're really dependent on the sun.

And the sun will give you all the vitamin D you need if you're out there long enough and if you expose your skin to it, because it is a certain wave ultraviolet rays that interact with your skin that convert the cholesterol into vitamin D.

So that being said, let's just talk about the other barriers that people run into with absorption.

We have body barriers.

We have your stomach pH.

If you don't have a strong acidic stomach, you're not gonna get the vitamin D absorption.

If there's gut inflammation, that's gonna be a big, big barrier.

If there's any problem with your kidneys, let's say you're a diabetic and you have kidney problems.