Posted by bleauberry on October 2, 2015, at 14:33:23
In reply to Vitamin D Maintenance dosage, posted by Lamdage22 on September 20, 2015, at 7:15:48
I haven't read all the other responders.
But to just dive in....my journeys suggest the best dose is 5000I.U. per day.
You can test blood level easily.
Vitamin D is a huge issue in psychiatry, except it is usually underestimated or ignored completely. It ties in with...immune system...which strongly impacts mood.
You cannot rely on the sun because that assumes that all of your bodily processes are working perfectly and will convert the D as instructed and use it as instructed. Instructions may very well be messed up, and that's related to the psych symptoms are there in the first place.
The primary cause of low vitamin D, according my MDs and my own experience, is an unsuspected infection. Lyme is the primary suspect but there are a dozen other common ones.
As an interesting side note, when those infections are treated, despite not officially diagnosing them or proving them, it is very common that longstanding psychiatric symptoms abate and even totally disappear.
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