Vitamin D Insufficiency is Prevalent in Severe Covid-19

Re:Vitamin D Insufficiency is Prevalent in Severe Covid-19 by _bxg1 on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @05:28PM (#23024596)

I read up on this because I had a really bad sinus infection a couple months ago and found myself taking "Emergen-C" every morning, which advertises "1000% your daily value of Vitamin C". Immediately after my sinus infection cleared up the virus stuff started, so I kept taking it for a while.

From what I read, at least with Vitamin C, you have to get into the 2000% range before there start being negative side-effects.

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Re:Vitamin D Insufficiency is Prevalent in Severe Covid-19 by eldenbishop on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @06:44PM (#23025440)

I take as much as 20 grams a day with no side-effects. It can take your stomach awhile to get used to that much but once it has adjusted its fine.

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Re:Vitamin D Insufficiency is Prevalent in Severe Covid-19 by _bxg1 on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @07:42PM (#23025914)

The other thing I've always heard is that taking more than the recommended amount is pointless, because your kidneys filter it out. I definitely wouldn't take the time to adjust to an even higher dose. I was mainly only taking the dose I was because I didn't want to try and subdivide the little packets.

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