hi pete, lets say you started in Nov..so you've been on it two full months...i'd just hang in there and give it four months.....at this time of year If you aren't getting more plaques your gaining in my book....patience is the guide... Five minutes of sun in the spring will give you 5000iu and some of the high test stuff. here's a link by an MD which should answer some of your questions better then i can.
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Logini would also take a multivitamin..
What dosage?, well depends how much D is in each dose I don't know what dosage you're taking.
So lets assume you are taking a dosage of 400iu..so three would be 1200 iu and if you take a multivitamin that would be another 400iu so a total of 1600iu..That should be sufficient. With the lack of more testing, I personally would not take over 2000 iu as suggested as the upper safe limit by the FDA and the EU for long term dosage and i would reduce that to 1200 iu if I got sun.
Now ,some scientists claim this safe upper limit should be raised to 4000 iu....I have read most of the literature and unless one had access to a lab to check your blood levels I would stick with the FDA guidelines....so best to err on the side of safety and stick to 2000iu or less until new research tells us different.
The problem with D3 I think is this...it's not as effective as the steroid analog calcitriol converted by the kidney and some skin cells. This form we take (D3) is converted by the liver to a lazy analog which just floats around the blood and gets stored in some of the fat..... it lazily works on the Tcells slowing the immune response by keying into the Vitamin D receptors but it doesn't do the job as well as the high test calcitriol made by the kidneys and a small amount made in some skin cells..this calcitriol is about 1000 times more potent and why a little sun or UVB goes along way..there is some research indicating the sun not only makes D3 but also small amounts of calcitriol.
right now we're on no lead regular just barely holding our own.....with a little sun..we get D3 and a little jet fuel (calcitriol) also
on regular gas (D3) we are taking, pretty safe stuff, its converted and slooowly takes months to reprogram the tcells and build up some D in your blood. With high test (calcitriol) you can do it in weeks but then high test is more hazardous..
Does this make sense Pete?... well, hang in there...bj
