Welcome to my blog which I will update on a regular basis to give you the latest and most important information coming out in the medical literature and in the world about vitamin D.
When I finished writing my book, I knew that it was just the beginning. The Internet can keep us up to date on the latest findings on a daily basis, whereas a book once published is fixed until a new edition comes out.
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I have been shown to have a Vitamin D level of 12 and I know that is really low. I have a malabsorption problem. I’m working with my doctors to find out what is wrong with me, and this is a piece of the puzzle. My endocrinologist gave me an emergency dose of 50,0000 IU caps once a week for four weeks, and I’m already on 2 natalcare tabs ( Not pregnant) just to keep my levels up. I also started to include 2 Calcium 600 plus D.
My pressure is pinging up and down all over the place. I have been passing out from it plummeting, and then having go so high I vomit and have a wildly bad headache. I’m tired all the time, I ache all over basically.
I’m 51, and my history is recently (jan 08) I had an emergency Colon resection and almost died I got so septic. Scar tissue from a Gastric Bypass in ‘03 had obstructed it and I came within an hour, they told my husband….(April 08) Total Knee replacement, and major arthritis problems in other knee as well as other parts of my body.
My Question is can Vitamin D deficiency be part of this picture, can this have been a contributing factor? Any ideas would be appreciated? Please respond to my email addy. Thank you so much for you time and help. I’m so frustrated Doctor.
Regards,
Akasha
Thank you for your wonderful book! I ordered it online on a Thursday, it arrived in the mail Friday and I had read through it by the time I went to bed Friday night.
It’s a great, easy read and contains extremely valuable information. I’ve been studying D for over 2 years and still learned from your book. I found the section on Vitamin D and cancer to be particularly well written and easy for the layman to understand.
I shared it with the Medical Director of our family practice clinic (just outside St. Louis, MO, 38° 45′ N) who has been identifying and treating D deficiency for over 2 years now. He very much enjoyed it, as did I. Since then, I’ve given my copy to 2 others.
The Medical Director and his colleague are presenting two sessions on Vitamin D at the second largest meeting of Family Physicians in the country the first week in April. We’re excited to share our experiences with these physicians and are confident they will walk away with an eager desire to begin testing and treating their patients for D deficiencies as well.
We’ve witnessed incredible outcomes from treating our patients. In the 25+ years our medical director has been in practice, he feels he’s helped more people in the past 2 years than in the previous 23. It’s a wonderful feeling and we’re doing what we can to educate others on the importance of checking D and optimizing your 25(OH) levels.
Thanks, again, for taking the time to publish this book. I plan on continuing to share it with others!
how much D should be taken if 59 years old
Gary
A Basic Dose of 2000 IU of Vitamin D3 per day in an otherwise healthy person is what I recommend to my patients. But as you know from my book, it is best to do a blood test to see what your starting level (especially after Winter) is so then you can normalize or optimize your dose! See Chapter 5 in the book for more information.
Dr Soram
Jessica,
Thank you for your kind words! It sounds like you are medical doctor as well. I too have seen miracles with the use of Vitamin D in my practice over the last 6 years of using it. Optimizing the Vitamin D levels of myself as well as my patients has produced amazing benefits for us all.
It was because of these miracles I have seen that I was inspired to write the book to share with patients and their doctors. I would like all doctors to be measuring and optimizing their patients levels!
In less than a month I will have on this site, an at home Vitamin D finger-stick blood test kit package, for patients to do so they can work with their doctors to optimize their levels. I would like everyone to have an optimal level. As I say in the book we do not even know what the landscape of disease would look like if everybody had a normal level!
Keep up the good work! And thank you for sharing my book with so many of your friends!
S
Dear Akasha,
Wow! I’m so sorry to hear of all the medical difficulties you have been having.
As you know from my book severe vitamin D deficiency can give a lot of symptoms and contribute to other medical problems. Given that your level was so low please share with your doctor chapter 5 in my book. I strongly suspect that the dose of 50,000 IU once a week for only four weeks is not enough to get your levels up to normal or optimal. As I talk about in my book it has been my experience that at least eight weeks of this dose is required to get your levels up to recommended values. Then regular blood tests should be done to make sure that with a maintenance dose (which is much lower than 50,000 units) you keep your levels up. That will be the surest way for you to see what benefits optimal vitamin D levels can bring to your general health and well-being.
My best wishes to you,
Dr. Soram
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