I've recently started taking your micro vitamins, however, why does it smell fishy?

What is the point of doing small doses of Vitamin D3? Why not just use a monthly dose in one go? Say 60k IU? We are talking micrograms here, its incredibly miniscule.

@DrBradStanfield Thanks as always for putting out your content. Can you clarify why you have changed your guidance on daily supplementation dosage from the interview you did on the Nutrition Made Simple! channel where you said it makes sense to supplement with 2000-4000 units every day? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z6mpZrqpt7yvh4k.html

Is 5,000 IUs mega dosing? I can't find your definition of mega dosing anywhere. How can we avoid it if it's not defined?

They say over 4000ius is mega dosing .I'm doing 25000 ius and can't get out of the low 10s in a blood test

@@mariopavkovich4363 I would consider supplementing with cofactors such as Magnesium, K2, potassium, Zinc to help raise your levels

It's not because there are many who continue taking very high doses.

he's talking in general, not necessarily for people whose Vit D is low. if you have it low, do what you just wrote. you cannot expect for him to go over every possible case scenario in a-few-minutes video 🤷‍♂️

How much a day were you taking daily?

I'm black too! Front the waist down...or so my wife tells me.

@terminator3728 weird way of tanning

@@terminator3728 Im picturing a burnt cashew nut.

​@@terminator3728 it's gone gangrenous from too much wnking

Different people need different dosage. Some people 2000IU daily won't change their numbers at all and need higher dosage. Weight plays a role too

agreed. reaching the RDA of the different vitamins and minerals is essential, and is why in addition to a great diet, I also supplement with MicroVitamin (which has Vitamin D and K2)

​@@DrBradStanfieldplease debunk eric berg that just got a video that say there is no toxicity from any dose

I have improved my joints so that now at age 76 I think of them as perfect (and I do squats, and sissy aquats in my strength training). The problems I had when younger weren't critical, but I noticed things. 5' 000 IU of vitamin D3 during a decade ot two were the most important thing, I think. But my full "joints stack" is: This is my supplements aimed at skin, joints, tendons, facia and bones: Magnesium (up to 420 mg for men. But not so much that it upsets the intestines. Food is better, of course, but rather deficient nowadays.) Vitamin D and K2 (5000 IU resp 200 ug of MK7) Hydrolyzed collagen 12 -- 15 g and some vitamin C Boron 3 .. 6 mg I did get my first tendinitis (biceps tendon at the front of the shoulder) before I started with hydrolyzed collagen. Too much plance pushups in rings when my gym closed and I started doing them outdoors., but I won't think I would have got it if I had known that I needed more collagen at my age. Well maybe second tendinitis, since I had some issues with the superscapularis tendon decades ago. That's fine now too, since I started with regular hanging knee or leg raises. Hanging and mills with Indian Clubs (and heavy steel clubs) is really good for maintain the shoulders, that weak spot for us older! But I think this works well only with something like my joints nutrition stack. Do you Know that we need copper for building proper collagen? Even so, I don't count that as belonging to my joint stack, since we usually get enough of that and don't want to much of it.

@@stx7389 The only known toxicity from vitamin D is too high blood calcium levels. That normally only happens with over 30'000 IU of vitamin D, or with it combined with calcium supplements. It's very likely that vitamin K2 makes that risk go away, but no one has researched that. My general recommendation is to combine supplementing magnesium, vitamin D3, and vitamin K2, and to get calcium from food. Magnesium is needed, and consumed, while processing vitamin D. So you might not get the right blood level of 25(OH)D and 1,25(OH)D without it. Vitamin K2 is needed to activate those 17 known calcium handling proteins created by vitamin D. Without it the body doesn't handle calcium correctly, and that's bad! Vitamin D increases the body’s uptake of calcium, so you usually don't need supplementing with that. I suggest that 5'000 IU of vitamin D is pretty optimal for most people. The ideal is to meassure the level of 25(OH)D after 3 months and adjust the level to get into the range 40 - 60 ng/ml (multiply with 2.5 to get nmol/L, which we Europeans utilize). But, of course, the guidelines tells us that max dose is 4'000 IU. That and the idiotically low RDA is why this subject is so confused! Higher blood levels aren't dangerous. But I wouldn't keep the level above 80 ng/ml. That's medication in my view! Most people can get the RDA from food, but need the sun to get an optimal dose.. We actually don't usually feel even very low levels of vitamin D. That's probably why so many people can be deficient without doing anything about it. We even think getting a few colds every winter, and needing a walker at age 75 or 80 is normal!

Doctor, you did not mentioned that people that have a darker complexion is even more deficient in vitamin d as the darker coloring prevents the vitamin d from being absorb and they need to stay in the sun at around 30 minutes if sunbathing for the vitamin d 😢😢

I did see that, the people that died from covid had very low levels of vitamin d!

I know, Dr Campbell covered them well

Absolutely!

If I ever get that virus, I would definitely take high doses of vitamin d3! No matter what any of the so called geniuses say!

If I ever get that virus, I will definitely take high doses of Vitamin d3! No matter what any of the so called geniuses say! Don't delete my comment!

also when i first was diagnosed with low vitamin d3, my level was 8, which insanely low i took 300,000IU every 10 days for 1 month, and then i waited another month but was daily taking 5,000iu, after waiting for that month i took another 300,000IU then i did a blood test again, my level which was 8 went all the way up to 49 in the span of 2 months! never in my life i have felt that good, my testosterone increased my sleep was better my ENERGY was a lot better i had no more depression which was the best honestly, me and manyyyy others have mega dosed like that and have been very good, i dont have a single kidney problem or calcification or anything, but of course we should take vitamin k2 with it at least 200 micrograms, this is my story and am forever grateful for mega dosing vitamin d3

Sun avoidance seems to be more dangerous than even too much sun. Extreme avoidance works the best!

90 what?

90 is pretty high

Thanks for your comment. I do discuss in the video how older people are at greater risk of deficiency. The guidelines from the Endocrine Society remain the same (up to 2,000 IU daily)

​@@DrBradStanfieldInteresting, as Health Canada says up to 4000IU, how do they come up with numbers like that? It's like that research paper "The Big vitamin D mistake" and it is advising something like up to 8000IU (I forgot the details), and it claims there was a statistical error in the way they calculated prior guildeline

@@DrBradStanfieldyes, you did ‘mention’ that but completely avoided the issue of how resolve the difficulty of how older people such as myself can get to an appropriate level. Your fallback position of parroting the hidebound endocrine society is no help because it still leaves older people at risk. I’ve spoken to many doctors and not one of them can make the recommendation of the endocrine society while knowing that such a recommendation leaves older folk exposed. If you are so constrained by the recommendations of the endocrine society that choose to ignore the reality experienced by a significant proportion of the population, then I fail to see the purpose of your channel?

Yes, COVID research has shown severity linked with vitamin D levels . Another research has shown administrating high dose for the very sick prevented severity and improved recovery. They used a active form not available to buy

Yes but do you take Magnesium and K2 supplements ? VITAL trial did not, so be carefull ;-) Just joking but broadly testing D3 supplement without Magnesium in a population often defficient in it does not seem very wise. VITAL trial has it's limitations...

That's a pretty optimal value from that low dose. I got 113 nmol/l from 5'400 IU without any sun after a long winter.

You know that vitamin D suppresses the immune system, right?

Long ago it were a Finnish trial which gave newborn children a pretty low doses of vitamin D. That reduced the risk of MS substantially! But those idiots reduced the guidelines in spite of that, inspired by the USA's low guidelines, I think. It's even more importan for children (and their pregnant and breastfeeding mothers) to have good levels of vitamin D. Those who have grown up to teenagers with enough vitamin D has a much better immune system. That can never be compleatly recovered later. Not as much allergies and asthma too. We are really doing something seriously wrong here!

😂😂😂😂

I don't think the experimental mRNA injections have done him much good

I thought it was just me being weird thinking he had red eyes lol

@@Masterr59 I sometimes wonder why I take health advice from someone who looks so unwell...

Why? Pale complexion actually means you need less sunlight to produce it. In a temperate climate usually less than 10 minutes of exposed lower arms and face are enough to produce more than necessary. In tropical zones its less than 3 minutes.

My test also showed that I need a slightly higher dose to reach normal levels

"Normal" doesn’t tell us much!

How do you know if those who say the opposite aren't funded by supplement companies? People often forget these are for-profit organizations as well.

for people with higher BMI / body fat percentage, they require higher doses of d3 to get to ideal serum levels. the body stores d3 in body fat. additionally, for the benefits of d3 to be maximized, it must be taken with adequate magnesium, which many are deficient in, as well as k2mk4/7 & other trace minerals / vitamins.

Should perhaps also add that what is understood as too high a dosis seems depending on where you are in the world. The high dosis pills in Denmark lies on 35 mcg, vs. the 2.000 IU / 50 mcg you use as the border, and the most common pills lies in the 5-10 mcg end. We've seen the debate regarding overdosing of D3 here as well of late, no doubt due to headlines elsewhere in the world, but the question of What actually Is the correct amount, depending on things like gender, age, weight, location etc. seems to be missing.. 🤔

As I said to another commenter, the body regulates how much D3 is produced through the skin at any given time. Thousands of IU can be produced, but the body will down regulate production once levels are optimal. This goes against what supplements do, which will increase levels regardless of what the body thinks it needs.

That's probably higher than you need, but not dangerously so. Magnesium and vitamin K2 would make sure that no harm happens long-term. But avoid getting it even higher. Many doctors would warn you that your level is too high. If they tell you tp stop supplementing, they are wrong. If they tell you to reduce it slightly they may actually know something. You could lower the level slightly by skipping one day a week. My reccomendation is to take vitamin D almost daily, which means skipping single days is OK.

@@larsnystrom6698 thanks for the reply, no, I do not want to get it higher and yes I take also Vit K2 and Magnesium plus a lot of other thingies. 🙂

In Scandinavian countries, aren't many foods imbued with Vitamin D as mandated by government?

@@seascape35 only milk as far as I know.

@@seascape35 Milk, vegetable drinks, and some fats are "enriched" with vitamin D in Sweden, but in unsufficient amounts. In the order of 1 ug/100 g. That's about 40 IU. One liter of milk would give us that idiotically low RDA of 400 IU. That would raise the blood level of 25(0OH)D by a paltry 2 ng/ml, and we want it to be at least 40. Pretty insignificant, I think. About 5 - 10% of what's needed. I have always regarded "enrichment" as an idiotic practice because not all of us consume these products. And also, it's usually made because processing has destroyed the natural content of those and other things. It's a way to hide these kinds of detrimental processing by false claims of vitamin contents. The rational thing would be to supply us with a free multivitamin, and let us do what we want with those things.

If you think it's too high you shouldn't stop supplementing. You should titrate it down to where you want it. I want my levels between 40 - 60 ng/mL. (Multiply with 2.5 to get nmol/l). Your level is 54.8 ng/mL. It's well known that it's not just the level that's important. You also need it almost daily. So it's a bad idea to just stop to get the level down.

Thats strange because here in NJ and many other states, we rarely ever see the sun anymore too? It must be those chem-trails that all the "experts" tell us don't exist?

I'm sure you did!

You're killing yourself slowly for short term relief. That was way too much

@@Nashlash my blood level is just over 50 which is in our evolved range.

@@Nashlash studies showed literally NO toxicity AT ALL with doses of 5000 daily for prolonged time.

@@saphiamertens I’ve been taking this dose for 8+ years now, I wish I knew about how critical D3 was for immune health earlier. I sailed through the pandemic. I also take K2 & Magnesium

Since I live in Stockholm, where we have no sun during a very long winter, I have been supplementing with 5400 IU of vitamin D3 for decades. I finally measured my level of 25(OH)D this spring, before the sun have had any effect. It was 113 nmol/L, or 45 ng/mL. Each 1000 IU typically raises the level about 5 ng/mL. And without any sun you will probably not have more than 20 ng/mL. So, 5000 IU might typically give about 55 ng/ml. I consider 40 - 60 ng/mL as good values, although higher aren't dangerous. Above 70, or 80 shouldn't be needed, I think. The reason for measuring is that some individuals need much more, and some much less. I guess measuring once or twice is enough to know which kind you are. It takes something like 3 months of supplementing, or changing it, for reaching a plateau for vitamin D. Having to high or to low level that short time shouldn't be any problem. Magnesium and vitamin K2 is needed to get the entire system to work. Magnesium is actually consumed when the body does it's thing vidh vitamin D. And vitamin K2 is needed to activate the calcium-handling proteins created by vitamin D.

You will really have to go get tested because it's different for each person, regardless of their ethnicity, gender and age.

Ive been happy with my delivery in the UK, had no custom fees. Not sure if it's shipping from there to mainland Europe or from the US though.

@@jamebrow thanks, I just checked the site again and now it says that customs fees are included so maybe it's been changed.

it might be risky from a legal point of view. unfortinately it's become to easy to sue for diffamation😬

10,000IU per day is considered a maintenance dosage but it must be D3 with K2. A good D3 will have 200mcg K2 per 10,000IU D3.

I think 5000 to 10000 per day

@@janinemelnitz2750 Right, but we need IU per kg bodyweight. Think about a young slim boy, 46 kg or a massive dude with 140kg. Both need very different dosages to achive the same outcome.

Thumbnail says 10,000 IU.

I take 5000 iu daily and my D levels haven't budged from the mid twenties

@@tinyjungle_ exactly. There is a paper on VDR defects, there are papers on the superiority of Liposomal D3, K2, Lipoic Acid, Quercetin, Curcumin, C, Apigenin etc. This is from a paper on VDR defects. >>In conclusion, serum vit D level may be normal among arthritis patients but polymorphism on VDR gene restricts vit D to perform its anti-inflammatory function by altering the 1, 25(OH)2 D3 binding sites.

@@tinyjungle_ It needs to be D3 along with K2. Magnesium also helps with absorption. Dr. Eric Berg has fantastic information on all of this. I recommend him because it's helping with my autoimmune disorder(Psoriasis).

@@DCGreenZone but how would liposomal change the lack of response from cell receptors? The function of binding sites is impaired, liposomal only has one function: to increase serum levels the fastest way possible.

@@saphiamertens That I have yet to ascertain. Looking into this atm. Familial Aggregation in Vitamin D Deficiency Disorder

The body regulates how much D3 is produced through the skin at any given time. Thousands of IU can be produced, but the body will down regulate production once levels are optimal. This goes against what supplements do, which will increase levels regardless of what the body thinks it needs.

it's a good idea to reach the recommended daily intakes of micronutrients, but not to significantly exceed them

I haven't removed any comments

@@DrBradStanfield I will attempt to repost the comment here. Readers/viewers might, unfortunately, be a little confused, as it is removed from the proper context of the relevant exchange. But to summarize: I posted a comment listing 6 errors/oversights you made in your presentation, including (but not limited to) not posting links to two studies/articles mentioned in the video. You replied by merely stating "Strange comment. Everything is in the link [sic] I provided in the video description." Then I posted the following reply three times, which disappeared shortly afterwards: What is strange about the truth? Aside from your "boilerplate" links about "Supplements I take", "Roadmap - how to look young & feel strong", etc, there are (as of May 8, 2024) only 5 other links under the heading "Here are the links to the research papers referenced in the video:". I will copy/paste them here: ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Vit... www.consumerlab.com/news/cons... www.covid19treatmentguideline... ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Imm... www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.11... Unfortunately, the copy/paste process won't reliably retain the links, but in order of appearance, the links listed above go to: #1 - a general Vitamin D "Fact sheet for health professionals" #2 - a ConsumerLab list of the most popular supplements, with Vit D at the top #3 - COVID-19 treatment guidelines for Vitamin D #4 - another "Fact sheet for health professionals" about "dietary supplements for immune function and infectious diseases" #5 - a study on Vitamin K2 and D in patients with aortic valve calcification Where is the link to the VITAL trial you discussed in your video? And the presence/absence of the relevant link(s) only addresses two of the six errors/oversights I brought up. What about the other four? Are they also strange?