Avoid heart attacks w/ Vitamin D?

[tsptalk]

That's a lot of vitamin D!

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Taking vitamin D supplements linked to better chance of avoiding heart attacks

This D-Health Trial was carried out between 2014 and 2020 and included 21,315 Australians (ages 60-84). Participants received one capsule of either 60,000 IU vitamin D (10,662 people) or a placebo (10,653 people) to take orally at the beginning of each month for up to five years.

Those with a history of high calcium levels (hypercalcemia), overactive thyroid (hyperparathyroidism), kidney stones, soft bones (osteomalacia), sarcoidosis, an inflammatory disease, or anyone already taking more than 500 IU/day vitamin D were excluded from the experiment.

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://studyfinds.org/vitamin-d-heart-attacks/

 

[nnuut]

I have taken 6000 units of Vitamin D3 daily for around 6 years! K2 helps to!

 

[tsptalk]

Excellent! I take 10K IU, which is about 1300% of RDA, so 60K sounded really high.

 

[nasa1974]

I take a daily multivitamin along with my cholesterol meds. Saw my doc two weeks ago and she said I'm doing good.

 

[SRS19]

Looks like it's 60k per month, not every day.. I live in the PNW, so it's pretty crucial for me. I had low Vitamin D levels 3 years after I moved here. For me, one of the symptoms was insomnia which disappeared once I got my levels back up.
I take 5000 IU most of the year along with magnesium (doc recommended) which is also needed for D3 absorption. Being low in magnesium can screw with you as well if you take large doses of D3. Speaking from experience.

Excellent! I take 10K IU, which is about 1300% of RDA, so 60K sounded really high.

 

[tsptalk]

Aha! That makes more sense. I should have read it more carefully. Thanks!