Vitamin D supplements lower risk of autoimmune disease, researchers say

Re:Vitamin D supplements lower risk of autoimmune disease, r... by timrichard on Monday March 07, 2022 @05:48AM (#30586262)

Their advice hasn't been updated for a long time, and is for 400 IU. During Covid, plenty of medics in the media were recommending about 2000 IU, perhaps a bit more.

Studies are emerging, so time will tell I guess.

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Re:Vitamin D supplements lower risk of autoimmune disease, r... by stjohnswarts on Monday March 07, 2022 @11:48AM (#30590078)

This was the dose that my doctor recommends as well. I didn't start taking them until doc said "your vit d levels are pretty low". They wanted to give me some of those megadoses but I just agreed to start supplementing. I took 5000IU daily for about a month and then switched over to 2000 and everything has been normal since.

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Re:Vitamin D supplements lower risk of autoimmune disease, r... by datavirtue on Monday March 07, 2022 @03:44PM (#30593100)

Vitamin d accumulates. You can actually take it all at once, but most people take dailies. Fat soluable vitamin...unlike water soluable that leave the body almost immediately.

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Re:Vitamin D supplements lower risk of autoimmune disease, r... by andy_ppp on Monday March 07, 2022 @06:13AM (#30586413)

I saw a paper somewhere implying the more body fat you have the more Vitamin D you need too.

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