June 2, 2017
4.0 out of 5 stars Much Promise in High Dose D3/K2By All Are One on January 23, 2016
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I have taken various supplements over the years. I am 63 years of age and have dealt with body pain in one form or another for over 42. All due to a serious traffic accident in 1972. I suffered several broken bones and a lot of tissue trauma. I have trigger points like nobody’s business. You learn to deal with almost constant pain. My motto became, “A day without pain is a good day.” On September 23rd of 2015 (4months ago at this writing) my two big dogs pulled me off the front steps. Long story short I ended up with a rod in my right femur. At the same time they removed some old hardware from the accident in1972.
My problem is the fracture isn’t healing like the ortho doc thinks it should be and is already thinking more surgery. The doc sent me out for blood tests. My D3 level was 44. He made me nervous with all of the talk of more surgery so… I took 8000 IU of D3 before I went in for the test… opps. The doc says 44 is a normal level. Whether I bumped it up artificially or not… 44 sounds like it’s not working for me.
So I have started out with 8000 IU. Today I received my Puritan Pride brand of D3 and K2. I took 30000 IU with 3000 mcg of K2.
I will post any successes as I go along. I will most likely bump it up to 50000 IU next week if I don’t die in my sleep from the 30000 IU 😉
We are going to Mexico for 10 days so that should increase it even more, since I plan on getting a lot of sun while we are there. I’m interested to see if I get a sunburn since I’m taking a good amount of D3.
The information in this book good, I am not a fan of the writing style. It really jumps around. However, I doubt you will find this much great information in one place anywhere else.I would
have given 5 stars except for the way the information is organized (or not organized in this case) …. still great information. Read the book.3/4/14
Update: I am currently taking 70,000 IU daily. I am also taking 7,000 mcg of K2 along with Vit’s A & E. I also read the book suggested for K2. I haven’t noticed too much change over all in the fractured femur re-knitting, although there is some minimal bone growth beginning. I do think the pain in my right shoulder joint is lessening (when I fell and broke the femur I jammed up my shoulder trying to break my fall). I also believe my immune system is improving. Two of my family members recently had a bout of the stomach flu that was going around and I did not.
Going with the suggested dose ratio of 1,000 mcgs of K2 to every 10,000 IU’s of D3 I find I’m consuming a lot of K2. I have purchased it at Puritan’s Pride, our local health food stores, and have recently purchased 4 bottles of K2 (500 mcg for each tablet) from Vitacost (you can google them for the web addy). Our local health food store has it from Country Life. I recently bought a single bottle of 60 tablets from them at $25. I bought the same Country Life product at just over $12 a bottle (which included $4 shipping). So they will definitely have my K2 business from now on.On another note: According to what I read in the K2 book suggested you need to be taking Vit A, too! D3, K2, and A form a triangle of support for each other. You must take all three of them together. There was also mention of Vit E but did not give any specifics. I added it just to be on the good side.I am waiting for my recent blood work results to see what my current level of D3 is in my blood.Update: I received my blood test results today. Initially when I was tested it came back at 44.0 ng/ml. My recent test has me at 147.0 ng/ml. I will be cutting down a bit to reach and maintain 100.0 ng/ml. I noticed this last week in the mirror the significant reduction in the size of a bony bump on my forehead. It has been there for at least 30 years. It is at least 1/2 the size that it was, it seems to be reducing a bit everydy. I also have noticed my banged up right shoulder joint is less painful with rotation movement.I came across this from a study the Cleveland Clinic had done: Vitamin D is a fat-soluble nutrient, so it’s important to take it with the largest meal of the day.A Cleveland Clinic Foundation study showed that when people take vitamin D with the largest meal of the day, blood levels increase over 50% compared to taking vitamin D on an empty stomach or with a light meal.11t is thus critical to not only take enough vitamin D, but to also take it with the meal that contains the most fat to ensure maximum absorption.
I do find it disturbing that there are so many potential health benefits from taking D3/K2 and our medical profession is not all over it.