December 1, 2017
By MtnGeekette on November 28, 2017
Format: Kindle Edition | Verified PurchaseI started taking more Vitamin D3, as well as K2, with my calcium recently. I have ostopenia in one hip and osteoporosis in the other, mainly due to years of prednisone for auto-immune Crohn’s disease. The pain in my hips is gone after 2-3 months at 20k IU per day, though I haven’t had another bone density scan yet to compare results.
I also experienced fewer symptoms less diarrhea) of Crohn’s disease since adding more D3.
Finally, I hear from my friends who are also in their 60’s that doctors now are prescribing 50k IU pills of D2, not D3, to them for bone loss. Well, D2 has to be converted to D3 by your body to be effective and the conversion process causes you to end up with less D3 than the D2 dose you started with. Why aren’t the MD’s just telling patients to go buy some D3 supplements? Because D2 is prescription only, but D3 is over the counter. Big Pharma wins again.