Posted by karaS on November 2, 2004, at 21:40:49
In reply to Re: Vitamin D and depression » karaS, posted by raybakes on November 2, 2004, at 2:26:07
> > I'm definitely going to raise my intake of vitamin D - not sure by how much though. 4,000 IU or even 2,000 IU sounds a little scary to me. I'll probably end up building up to that though.
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> I've been taking vitamin D3 from biotics for about the last three weeks - I did get a splitting headache with even the smallest amount, suggesting that my calcium balance was disrupted. I'd heard that parathyroid is raised in vitamin D deficiency, causing excess calcium to be broken down from the bone - I'd also heard that vitamin A reduces the action of parathyroid hormone. When I tried vitamin A 4000 IUs at a time, it took me 12-16,000 IUs before I could take 400-800 IUs of vitamin D without getting a headache - over 800 IUs and the headache would last all day!
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> What I have noticed in the three weeks is that a bone injury I've had after a bump in June, has healed and is no longer painful. I would like to take more vitamin D but I suspect I might be breaking down too much bone still - just found one of the reasons perhaps....i've been working hard to reduce my homocysteine levels, and it seems excess homocysteine can lead to bone loss - so maybe if I reduce my homocysteine more, I'll be able to tolerate higher doses of vitamin D?
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> Homocysteine as a predictive factor for hip fracture in older persons.
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> "These findings suggest that the homocysteine concentration, which is easily modifiable by means of dietary intervention, is an important risk factor for hip fracture in older persons"
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> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15141042
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> Ray
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>Ray,
Are you trying to imply that I'm old???? Just kidding. That's good to know if I am not able to tolerate a higher dosage of vitamin D. Hopefully I'm taking enough extra B vitamins (and A in my multi) so that I won't have any problems going up to 800. 4,000 IU may not be so easy... let us know how you manage with this in the future.Kara
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