June 11, 2017
Changing my lifeBy John Truitt on August 19, 2013
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Dear Mr. Bowles,
Than you so much for recounting your experience with high dose vitamin d and all that it has done to cure you. It gave me the confidence to do the same and I am amazed and thrilled at the results. I have had hypothyroidism, female hormonal imbalance and overweight and colitis. I conquered the colitis almost a year ago using berberine hcl and herbs that contain it like goldenseal. These are really amazing for healing mucous membranes in the body such as the intestine lining. I have been able to cut my thyroid supplement dose by a third by healing the colitis. However I have been still using berberine intermittently as well as olive leaf extract, a natural antimicrobial. So maybe if I were to completely stop at some point the colitis would return. And I have still had the overweight, hormonal imbalance and had to take some thyroid. A few years ago I went to a nurse practitioner who specializes in women’s hormonal health and had some testing. She told me I was vitamin d, iron and iodine deficient and that I needed to correct these to improve my thyroid function. This was in spite of getting in the neighborhood of 2000 units of d a day from food and supplements. I had to fire the NP because she was a jerk, I won’t take time with details. I was on my own and just blundered along as best I knew. I upped my d to 3000-3500 units, occasionally 4000 for small stretches. I was afraid and cautious because of all the conditioning about the dangerousness of vitamin d. I did note some improvements in my teeth but that was about it. Then in time I came across the LEF article telling how when they reviewed their clients vitamin d tests only 15 percent were in the optimal range, even though they were all taking what would be considered high dose d. That got me to thinking maybe I could up my dose again and take 5000 a day at least throughout the winter. I tried it for a while and thought I felt weird at times which scared me off so I backed it down again. I didn’t know about it being critical to supplement K2 at a certain level. I did take some K2 but not enough. The info in the LEF article was just too vague for me to feel confident and know what to do. Then a few weeks ago I came across your book. The info in it connecting vitamin d to all the problems I have and the fact that you were ok on the high doses you took gave me reassurance that it would be ok for me to try it. I started out at 10,000 units several days ago to ease into it. I plan on going up to 30,000 units. Within like 3 days of 10,000 units I felt more energy and started having some heart pounding like when my thyroid dose is too high. So the next day I left off thyroid that day and felt good. The day after that I took half my dose and felt good til evening and then had a bit of a low feeling so I took a very small amount. Basically, in such a short time I have already been able to cut my dose by 1/4 to 1/2. By golly, I really believe I am going to be able to get off of these thyroid supps. I was not on a very high dose, just 60 mg desiccated thyroid. I think the low d has been causing all my hormones to be messed up so that I have had insulin resistance, estrogen dominance, blocking normal thyroid function giving me subclinical hypothyroid. And colitis because of lowered immunity. I think the vitamin d is actually getting at the cause.
So thanks Mr. Bowles for improving my quality of life immeasurably. I still have some questions about combining sun and supplements and how to have some idea of how much I am getting from sun with different amounts of exposed skin. If you know of a source for answering this or would include in future additions to your book I would appreciate the info.
It is only been a short while and here I am with an update. After my review I went up to 20,000 units with added k2. I am now off the thyroid completely! I am ecstatic! I feel great and so much better than when I was taking thyroid.
Thanks Jeff for sharing about vitamin d.