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Comment by nkozyra

3 hours ago

> Your own link shows that what is considered toxic levels are far higher than most people would expect.

Unless, as mentioned, it had some traction as a cure all around the time of COVID.

This happens periodically and is again happening with vitamin C (which, whatever, getting to any dangerous amount might be physically impossible).

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mhurron  3 hours ago

Would you mind providing some examples? I can't say that I'm really up on a lot of psudoscience.

A pretty standard bottle of Vitamin D at 10k IU is 60 capsules/pills/whatever. That's a 2 month supply.

To hit the toxic eventually (77k IU) you would be going through a 2 month supply every ~7 days. To hit the acute toxicity in days or weeks (low end 600k), your going through that bottle every day.

However, every single time that someone mentions Vitamin D, people jump out of the woodwork about toxicity without ever actually bringing up just how much you have to take as if if you take the 400 IU capsule, going one IU over is going to kill you. I'm also pretty sure that a specific group of denialists shouldn't be counted as a reason to scream warnings from the mountaintops every time someone thinks about Vitamin D.