I'd like to discuss the number one sign or symptom that could occur if you have overdosed on your vitamin d .
But before I get into this , I just have to say something .
The danger or the side effects of not having enough vitamin d are about a 1000 times more than having toxicity or too much vitamin d .
So that being said , it's very difficult to overdose with vitamin d .
Let me just jump right in .
I have this chart right here , and it's not scaled perfectly , but it'll give you the rough idea of what this means .
So down here , we have weeks .
We have 1 week , 3 weeks , 10 weeks , 30 weeks , and a 100 weeks .
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Now how many weeks are in a year ?
52 .
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So that's gonna be somewhere in here , so you can see it's not scaled correctly .
Now , on the left side of this graph , you have international units of vitamin d .
So , up here at the top we have a 1000000 international units and we have 300,000 international units .
We have 100,000 , 30,000 , 10,000 .
Now , right now , you might be taking , I don't know , 600 IU's or a 1000 IU's or maybe 2,000 IU's of your vitamin d .
It's , like , not even on this chart .
This starts at 10,000 IUs , and this is what I recommend even as a maintenance dosage .
So you could see , even at 10,000 IUs , a 100 weeks , there's no toxicity at all .
And we get to 30,000 , okay , all the way to here , maybe , up to , like , maybe 10 weeks .
There could be some potential side effects .
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10 weeks .
And then we have a 100,000 , right , for maybe two and a half weeks , it's fine .
Even 300,000 units for a week is fine , but there's this little section which I'm going to explain right here .
This area right here is safe if you adjust the cofactors .
Now , what does it mean cofactors ?
It means that vitamin d always works with other factors that help it in its function and absorption , etcetera .
And there's 2 really big cofactors , magnesium and vitamin k 2 .
And there's other ones too , like zinc and maybe b 6 that help to keep it safer and keep it from becoming toxic .
For example , if you take a lot of vitamin d , it helps you absorb calcium into the blood by 20 times , because that's what it does .
And now you have all this extra calcium in the blood .
Well , vitamin k 2 will take it from the blood and transport it into the bone .
So having enough k2 with d3 buffers it and keeps it from creating a problem .
And so this section right here is safe if you adjust the cofactors , and also if you drink more water because the big problem with too much calcium is kidney stones .
That's one of the symptoms .
It's not the top one .
It's number 2 , which I'll get to .
But if you drink enough water , like 2 and a half liters of fluid , the odds of you getting kidney stones go down to 0 .
Why ?
Because kidney stones occur when you have a super concentrated amount of calcium .
And if you're drinking enough water , there's no way the calcium can be super concentrated anymore .
So you can actually prevent that problem .
But , typically , the toxicity effect from vitamin d really occurs when you're taking 100 of 1,000 of international units of vitamin d for many , many weeks .
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Now that being said , the number one sign would be calcification somewhere in your body .
Now what's common for women is calcification in the breast tissue .
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That's kind of a benign situation .
Doesn't create any problems , but it can occur .
You can have calcification in any organ or tissue .
So that would be the first sign that you have too much vitamin d .
Number 2 , kidney stones .
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But , of course , kidney stones could come from many different things .
Number 3 , nerve symptoms like numbness , pain , tingling , any type of weird type symptoms with your nerves , that could be a sign that you have too much vitamin d .
And number 4 is excessive thirst .
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And number 5 , excessive urination .
Both of these .
Now Now what's interesting about these 2 is you usually get these symptoms when you're a diabetic , but in this situation , it's where you have too much calcium because the vitamin d is too high .
So there you have it .
These are the symptoms .
But I wanna show you something that relates to toxicity , I think .
This is my theory .
I think , a lot of the cases that you hear about with toxicity are from vitamin d 2 , not vitamin d 3 .
You see , the doctors usually prescribe vitamin d 2 , not d 3 .
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They'll usually give you , like , 50,000 international units of vitamin d 2 once a week .
And there's some really big differences between vitamin d 2 and d 3 that I'm gonna explain that could cause the person to take vitamin d 2 for a long period of time simply because they're not gonna really see the results .
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Let me explain .
Let's compare d 2 to d 3 .
Well , first of all , d 2 is not as effective as d 3 .
It's not as bioavailable .
It's not as studied .
It does not prevent fractures like vitamin d 3 will , but it does reverse rickets in infants , which is a severe vitamin d deficiency .
It has a different effect on the symptom depression , which relates to a couple factors which I don't wanna necessarily get into in this video .
And this next one is very important to know , it does not affect the immune system .
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It doesn't improve the immune system like vitamin d 3 .
Here you are taking b 2 and not seeing the results .
So maybe you'll be taking more or for a long period of time .
That potentially could be , and this is just my theory , why there is toxicity in the first place .
But again , I'm not a 100% on that , but that's just my theory .
Now since we talked about the main symptom , which is calcification , which is excess calcium , I think it's very appropriate to watch this video next right here .