Re D3

[Redders]

Thank you all for your helpful replies, so many knowledgeable people on here xx

[belindalore]

Yes there are. It's a great place. So many people to offer whatever advice they can. I hope this forum is here years and years from now. Take care.

[ozziebob]

Redders, I wrote a reply to your previous Post, but I addressed it to SuziElley because of a different question raised in her Reply. But I wanted to reply directly to you, but repeating some of my previous reply.

I am taking exactly the same daily dose of D3 & K2 you mentioned in your Post, so I was alarmed that you immediately decided to drop to 1000iu per day.

While I am only 3 months into my Vitamin D supplementation, 1 month loading + 2 months maintenance, looking at research led me to believe the dose you originally mentioned was perfectly acceptable. I certainly hope so.

I particularly refer you to the 2 links I give at the end of my Suzi Reply below, which indicate higher doses are being taken without harm. I suppose dosing requires an individual solution, confirmed by repeat testing of levels in the blood.

You will see from Steven Carr's testimony below, the levels of Vitamin D needed in his blood are much higher than normal recommended limits.

Anyway, I have copy&pasted my Suzi Reply below to give you my further thoughts. Hope it helps ...

Suzi, Your loading dose of 40,000iu for 7 weeks = 280,000iu over 7 weeks is exactly the dose recommended by NICE, and which recent research indicates is somewhat out of date.

My GP prescribed 20,000iu per day for 30 days = 600,000iu. Double the units in half the time. Doh! If I survive you should be OK.

Naturally I wanted to restest my Vitamin D levels after 3 months to ensure my high loading dose wasn't dangerous, but my GP said I had to wait 6 months, presumably a rule of my local CCG. Scarey! You can't make this stuff up!

Fortunately this last week I had my first ever meeting with anyone about my AF, a Specialist Clinical Arrythmia Nurse, and she helpfully organised to test my Vitamin D level. Seems like a win to me. I'm now waiting for those results.

Then there's Dr Campbell's YouTube videos and his Vitamin D recommendations, along with his friend Dr Cohen's recommendations found here ...

telaviv-doctor.com/suppleme...

I was hoping my Vitamin D deficiency was part of the cause of my AF, but I don't yet have the answer to that. With Steven Carr in Australia, Vitamin D and Calcium levels were vital in curing his AF. See here ...

carrafibdietinfo.com/

Hope some of this helps someone somewhere,

Bob.

[Redders in reply to ozziebob]

That is extremely helpful Bob thank you. I’m having blood tests on Tuesday so will ask for a D test also.

[SeanJax]

Vit D3 and K2 compete for its absorption so take it separately. There is no enough medical data about K2 role in osteoporosis. So you already took it with DOAC I guess it would be ok. For any supplements you took, ask for a liver enzymes test to make sure your liver tolerates it. With people with Afib, usually they took magnesium too and drink a lot of milk as source of natural calcium for osteoporosis people Calcium and magnesium compete with its absorption so take it separately minimum two hours apart. That is all I can add to it

[Redders in reply to SeanJax]

Thank you, I’m having a blood test on Tuesday re liver