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What is the recommended dose of vitamin D supplements? I've seen cited doses between 50 and 600 IU but I've read that this are actually severely underestimated.
As for buying supplements, can I just buy some random brand on amazon?
I would also like to know the answer to this. I just started taking 5000 IU personally. Since many people take 10,000 IU for years without issues that seems to be a safe amount. A white person would get at least that much (and possibly much more) from a pre-modern amount of sun exposure.
High levels of Vitamin D in the blood are correlated with all sorts of positive health outcomes, but so far data on the value of supplementation has been mixed. It's quite possible that these studies are using too-low levels of supplementation. 400 IU?! What is that - a supplement for ants?!
Another possibility is that sunlight might produce a higher level of bioavailable Vitamin D or that sunlight has other unknown benefits which are correlated with Vitamin D but not caused by Vitamin D. For that reason, I deliberately tan during the summer months, taking care not to burn or to get sun on my face and neck.
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