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so I wanted to touch on vitamin D toxicity because there’s a bit of fear

of taking too much vitamin D when in fact it might not be as scary as you

might think this document is by Mayo Clinic and it’s a great article and it

says this vitamin D is not as toxic as was once thought a historical and

up-to-date perspective so this is just a brief history on why some people are

still to this day a little bit scared about taking too much vitamin D and the

40’s vitamin D was used for rheumatoid arthritis but did you realize the amount

they were using were between two hundred thousand IUs and three hundred

thousand IUs I mean an average person might take six hundred IU’s to a

thousand IU’s right there talking 200 thousand to three hundred thousand and the

reason this works is vitamin D really helps the immune system and gets rid of

inflammation but then in the fifties they were actually fortifying the dairy

products and other products but there’s been some complaints from parents with

children who had some side effects calcification and the kidneys and even

some calcification on their heart valves so the fortification of vitamin D and

dairy was banned in Europe but not necessarily in America or Canada or I

think even in the UK now years later they found out exactly why these

specific children had these problems it was because they had a rare genetic

disease called Williams syndrome in which case you don’t want to take

vitamin D at all or else you’ll have calcification in the valves of the heart

as well as kidney stones so if we take out this rare genetic disease there

wasn’t a lot of side effects there was just a lot of benefits so nowadays when

you look at vitamin D it always says precaution make sure you don’t take too

much you could experience a toxic effect now that statement is in all the

textbooks it’s on all the websites so it’s all over the place so people are a

bit nervous about that but if you go through this article

it would take fifty thousand to a hundred thousand IU’s of vitamin D for

months two years before vitamin D became toxic now this is a lot more than what

people even consider toxic and when we say toxicity we’re talking about

hypercalcemia too much calcium in the blood which could lead to kidney stones

however there’s very little evidence if any evidence that shows that taking

vitamin D will lead to kidney stones at all so people end up taking smaller

amounts 1,000 to 2,000 IU’s per day for a period of time well I did another

video which I will put a link down below that shows that if you’re deficient and

you take a thousand milligrams it could take four months or longer before your

deficiency is satisfied to be able to put autoimmune conditions into

remission it does take large amounts for long

periods of time and on top of that if you wanted to decrease the risk of any

potential for this really what you do is you actually drink 2.5 litres of fluid

every single day and you avoid taking calcium as a supplement and you avoid

dairy and that will actually bring the risk for kidney stones way down so you

can then have the anti-inflammatory benefits for autoimmune conditions and

also realize that anything that I say in this video is not meant to replace your

medical care check with your doctor before taking any of my advice and

before you go check out this video on vitamin D dosage I think you’ll find it

quite interesting