August 26, 2021
Bayo
Dear Jeff,I hope you are well, brother. We began high-dosing our three year old son (he is now four), who is on the spectrum, with vitamin d3. Five months ago, we started to give him about 16,000 iu every morning. We noticed some improvements. He is verbal, loves to play with others, though very frequently gets in an emotional bind when presented with a choice between things or what might be to him a cognitively complicated task.
From April till the middle of July, we gave him cholecalciferol and cod oil (EPA+DHA). Being in the middle of a pandemic here in India, with everything shut down, we had little access to vitamin K2 and could not do a blood test. In the middle of July, our son started to get nauseous, would projectile vomit even water, and had to be admitted to the hospital…where he was diagnosed with hypercalcaemia as a result of vitamin D intoxication. When we tested him in April, his serum levels were 10 ng/mL. In July, the levels had risen to >140 ng/mL. To save him, doctors had to prescribe bisphosphonates/pamidronate to control the calcium in his blood and inhibit vitamin D action.
We are out of the hospital, learning from our mistakes. However, though we have ceased supplementation at the moment, I still feel there’s something to your theory that the hormone reduces neuroinflammation and works over time to “heal” the brain. Can you share anything that may support us at this time of tensions, of yearning?
Bayo A PhD
Jeff B
1:18 PM (2 minutes ago)
Hello Bayo
sorry to hear that your son had an adverse event from D3 ..I think the doctors were probably being over-alarmist
about “vitamin D3 toxicity” the first signs of toxicity is nausea and vomiting not the last signs before death.
If that happens it is simple you just stop the d3 and let it wash out of the system. Almost everyone recovers from hypercalcemia
in a few weeks if they stop the d3 and know what signs to look for. Yeah you really should not have ignored the Vitamin K2 advice.
Hypercalcemia or kidney stones can kick in after people have been doing high dose d3 for about 4 to 5 months if they don’t co-supplement with d3…
especially with really high doses..Also high dose D3 will eat up the magnesium at a high rate which can cause
many different mental issues from anxiety to panic attacks to psychosis. I write about this in my newer book published in 2019.
It will take about a month or two for your son’s d3 levels to come back down to normal..so in the meantime you better go find some vitamin k2
somehow and give it to him while his d3 levels are high. I know people in INdia who have gotten k2..you also might want to find some extended release
magnesium for him . The other cofactors of D3 that can become deficient are boron and zinc and Vitamin A
( you need to take beta carotene and not the retinol form of Vitamn A)…I think D3 will probably be helpful for your son if you do it correctly..
I helped raise an autistic boy for many years and in his case it turned out that Prozac was very helpful as well.
They say it works in at least 25% of the autistic kids especially if they have d in their family somewhere.