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Dani's avatar

What do you think about prenatal vitamins?

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Gail Reynolds's avatar

For additional clarification, please see Agent 131711’s Substack “Vitamin D is Rat Poison: The Fraudulent World of Synthetic Vitamins” dates 2/1/2024. He had several articles about how vitamins are “made”.

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Stuart Hutt's avatar

I would suggest looking at the research of Dr Bruce Hollis (PhD) and his work using D3 with pregnant women to prevent preeclampsia and reducing prostate tumors in an FDA approved study. Two other good resources are www.vitamindwiki.com where an engineer created a database of all published D articles you can search by ailment and www.grassrootshealth.net.

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Thomas's avatar

And have you ever heard of sun poisoning? Quantity matters.

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Thomas's avatar

That's like saying, water is for drowning.

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jennifer dibley's avatar

Omg but we need to have high levels of D for immunity and I live without enough sun 5 mos of year

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Beth Burton's avatar

Go peddle your shit somewhere else

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Alice Jerahian's avatar

I’m afraid you can’t be more wrong! One must know certain supplements don’t work if they’re taken individually, there are many that work in synergy and a must for complete transfer, absorption, and activation. If you were hypercalcimic, then you weren’t taking the D cofactors. If you had D toxicity - there is no such thing unless someone was taking more than 100k iu daily!), you were also not taking the cofactors. Now for the ‘rat poison’: if you’re taking your dr prescribed D, then yes, all chemical, synthetic and awful. But if you know to take credibly sourced D3, it’s the best supplement.

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KaiteeO's avatar

Partly true. Vitamin D is toxic to rats, HOWEVER, humans are not rats and it is a non-toxic vitamin supplement for us. Vitamin D is naturally synthesized by the body with enough sun exposure, but age, winter, and sunblock use prevent humans from getting enough of it. Supplementation is then recommended.

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Ralph Pike's avatar

Yet another bullshit scare story on D3.

It's too long a piece to critique thoroughly but I will simply point out that cholecalciferol produced endogenously is EXACTLY the same chemical as cholecalciferol produced synthetically.

Yep, we internally synthesise rat poison because in physiologically normal doses it keeps us alive!

And, yep, in MASSIVE doses it will kill a rat. So what?

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Gypsy Queen's avatar

Taking vitamin D without the companion, K2 will lead to osteoporosis. You need to move to calcium out of the bloodstream into the bones and K2 does that.

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John F's avatar

You should also mention that chocolate is dog poison. Funny how different species metabolize things differently.

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Jake Hallas's avatar

Hi @robynopenshaw, you said “The active 1,25D should not exceed twice the 25D storage form.” What if it does? My wife’s are 146 and 65 respectively. Thanks

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Dr Alex Kennerly Vasquez's avatar

That’s (“The active 1,25D should not exceed twice the 25D storage form.”) mathematically impossible. https://healthythinking.substack.com/p/vitamin-d-in-brain-health-mood-anxiety

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James's avatar

Good article that rings true. If there's big money to be made, I'm very sceptical, e.g big pHarma.

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Evi's avatar

Vit d supplements saved me when I have a scratchy throat or colds. Its positive effect is undeniable. I feel it hours later. This sounds like pseudoscience. You could’ve at least provided some science that backs these claims.

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Countrybumpkin's avatar

Robyn,

Do you realize that Lyme and Epstein Barr, and all of the other "diagnoses" are just putting labels on symptoms and there is no evidence that any pathogen is at work here. These are just symptoms of toxicity that have a label so there can be a LOT of money made from treating these poor unsuspecting people, and in the process, usually creating even more symptoms in time.

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