May 5, 2021
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From: Nathan
To: jeffbo@aol.com<jeffbo@aol.com>
Sent: Wed, May 5, 2021 8:49 pm
Subject: D3 Energy</jeffbo@aol.com>Hi Jeff,
I have a question! I started taking about 20,000 IUs of D3 per day for the past week, along with 500-1000mcg of magnesium and ~400mcg of K2 (MK4 and MK7, some of each). When I started I had the best 2 nights of sleep I’ve had in years and I felt like a lifetime of fatigue, low energy, procrastination and lack of focus was cured. For me this is a life changer, and pretty much a miracle.
However since then I’ve been quite tired, I don’t know if I’m recovering after a decades on ‘winter’ or if it’s not working out like I hoped. I feel like I’m having very good sleeps but I still feel a bit lethargic through the day.
It’s only been a week, but I thought you might have some experience with this and might be able to tell me if this is temporary or not.
I have ankylosing spondylitis as well, I’ve been able to manage this through diet pretty well (see Dr Paul Mason and his research on lectins). Although being able to eat normal food without a reaction would be pretty good. I’ve just started taking boron today (10x 3mcg pills).
I’m increasing my dose to 50,000 IUs a day today and will get a blood test in a week or two. I got 10,000IU gel caps today. Previously I was taking approx. 20x 1,000 IU solid pills (not gel caps) with hunks of butter lol. That’s all I could get in the local supermarket until my online order arrived. I have heard these no gel pills aren’t as good, so maybe I wasn’t getting that big of a dose?
Thanks so much for your research Jeff, I’ll keep experimenting over the next few weeks anyway, I’m hoping this is the life changer it seemed to be in the first couple of days
Cheers,
Nathan
— Reply by Jeff —
Hi Nathan
Apparently you are magnesium deficient and your d3 dose went up much faster than you can correct a magnesium deficiency
so the tiredness is one symptom of magnesium deficiency
the high dose d3 eats up the magnesium much faster than you can replace it with once a day dosing
so you should stop the d3 for a bit and start correcting the magnesium deficiency
by taking extended release magnesium from www.lef.org 2 to 3 x a day more smaller doses are best as it needs to be in your blood all day..So your tissues can incorporate it as they regenerate
ER mag lasts for 6 hours so try maybe 250 to 500 mg 2 to 3 x a day….
after a week or so of this you can probably add the d3 back and start over….
but you need to dose with mg for about a year to correct a lifelong deficiency in your tissues
thanks for the update let me know how it goes! JB