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Re:The Big Vitamin D Mistake [pdf] by radicaldreamer on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @03:25PM (#46210143)
In the US, you can get 50000 IU on Amazon, good enough for weekly supplementation if you're low (same as prescription strength).
Re:The Big Vitamin D Mistake [pdf] by cn-watch on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @06:37PM (#46212209)
The amount of fraud and fakes on amazon is surreal. I wouldn't trust something from amazon to open a can of beans that was already open.

I'm certainly not going to put something from amazon in my body. God only knows what you're actually getting

Re:The Big Vitamin D Mistake [pdf] by QuantumGood on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @07:03PM (#46212387)
When you buy from reliable brands with a wide range of supplements in their own store on Amazon, you get what that store offers on Amazon as well as elsewhere. If you don't know the brand, Amazon is a bad place to learn about them.
Re:The Big Vitamin D Mistake [pdf] by elcritch on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @10:09PM (#46213558)
I recall reading some research which indicated that daily dosage resulted in slightly better protections against cancer. Though better than not taking it at all.

I just got more 5000IU at Walmart which was a nice surprise. Normally I take two 2000IU tablets.

Re:The Big Vitamin D Mistake [pdf] by amypetrik8 on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @12:17AM (#46214347)
I get gummies at 2000000000 IU and that's not even the final form of my vitamin

Also what's an IU. Apparently it's meant to normalize impact across vitamin D species of which there are multiple. Part of me can see the reasoning but it runs contrary to how much of medicine/pharma operates, generally in such form as either mg per time interval or mg/kg per time interval. It would be like taking the whole armada of blood pressure drugs and dictating their doses in mmHg instead of milligrams. If only things were so simple!