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Vitamin D Dose Recommendations

Age	Dosage
Below 5	35 units per pound per day
Age 5 - 10	2500 units
Adults	5000 units
Pregnant Women	5000 units
WARNING: There is no way to know if the above recommendations are correct. The ONLY way to know is to test your blood. You might need 4-5 times the amount recommended above. Ideally your blood level of 25 OH D should be 60ng/ml.

Top Vitamin D Articles on Mercola.com


	My One Hour FREE Vitamin D Lecture to Clear Up All Your Confusion on this Vital Nutrient Important Vitamin D Update Breakthrough Updates You Need to Know on Vitamin D This is some of the most crucial information that I have come across in recent years on nutrition. Most experts, including me, have long missed the... Valuable Insights Into the Importance of Vitamin D and Sun William B. Grant, Ph.D., one of the top vitamin D researchers in the world, shares some valuable information about the need for proper sun exposure and... Test Values and Treatment for Vitamin D Deficiency Recent changes in commercial testing of vitamin D allow us to easily adjust vitamin D levels to optimal ranges without any fear of toxicity. Vitamin D is a Key Player in Your Overall Health The list of diseases that vitamin D favorably influences continues to grow. Avoid Flu Shots With the One Vitamin that Will Stop Flu in Its Tracks Why expose yourself and your family to the dangers of an ineffective vaccine when the solution is right outside your door? Vitamin D Journal Articles

Useful Websites


	Sunlight, Nutrition and Health Research Center John Cannell, MD, California He also has a monthly newsletter, to which you can subscribe. Michael F. Holick, MD, Ph.D., Boston University The UV Foundation Carole Baggerly, California Ashton Embry, DIet REsearch into the Cause and Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis Susan Brown, Osteoporosis Education Project James E. Dowd, MD, Michigan Krispin Sullivan, California Oliver Gillie, Ph.D., London UC-Riverside, About vitamin D Dietary Supplement Fact Sheet: Vitamin D Office of Dietary Supplements National Institutes of Health Medline Plus (seems to be the same as at the ODS) Vitamin D - MayoClinic.com World's Healthiest Foods Vitamin D at WisdomCard™ U.S. Atlas of Cancer Mortality DNA-weighted UVB spectral exposure for July 1992 developed using data from NASA’s Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer U.S. Department of Agriculture Ultraviolet Monitoring and Research Program Vitamin D, Merck Vitamin-D.com

Useful Presentations


	The Vitamin D Pandemic and its Health Consequences Presented by Michael Holick, PhD, MD, Professor of medicine, physiology and biophysics and director of the General Clinical Research Center at Boston University Medical Center. Keynote address at the opening ceremony of the 34th European Symposium on Calcified Tissues, Copenhagen 5 May, 2007. (Michael’s presentations are always entertaining and full of useful information) Diagnosis & Treatment of Vitamin D Deficiency April 9, 2008 Reinhold Vieth Vitamin D Scientists’ Call to Action Statement

Useful Books


	Dark Deception; Discover the Truth about the Benefits of Sunlight Exposure. Joseph Mercola with Jeffry Herman. Mercola.com. 2008. 238 pp. Solar Power for Optimal Health, Marc Sorenson, foreword by William B. Grant. Sept. 2008. 265 pp. The Vitamin D Cure, by James E. Dowd and Diane Stafford, John Wiley & Sons, 2008. Naked at Noon, Understanding Sunlight and Vitamin D, Krispin Sullivan (Available through her website) Sunlight Robbery, Oliver Gillie, (Available through his website). Scotland’s Health Deficit: An Explanation and a Plan. August 2008. Oliver Gillie. The UV Advantage. Michael F. Holick, Mark Jenkins. iBooks. 2003.

Practical Matters: Sources of Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)


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