Our Vice President of Scientific Affairs explains how to avoid the most common vitamin D blunders that make her cringe.* 📝
—which are helpful for preventing extreme vitamin D deficiency and its related consequences for bone mineralization. But to reach sufficient, healthy levels of vitamin D daily for life? Those amounts do not make a dent. ], Ferira says you would need to consume 294 cubes of cheddar cheese, 50 glasses of milk or orange juice, 62 cups of cereal, seven cups of irradiated mushrooms, nine servings of salmon, and 113 eggs. You get the point.
"I'm all about a diet-first, food-first [approach] except when it's failing us," Ferira adds."And this particular nutrient is the worst offender of that." She explains furtherThis ad is displayed using third party content and we do not control its accessibility features.Another pet peeve of Ferira's? When people declare that vitamin D is toxic simply because it's fat-soluble."That is like a 1982 science textbook.
amounts of vitamin D, toxicity isn't actually a concern. Clinical trials have found that toxicity considerations can happen with a serum 25D concentration greater than 150 ng/ml. That is three times higher than the range clinicians typically recommend for vitamin D sufficiency. , and not only is it not toxic, but these amounts helped the participants actually raise their blood levels to sufficiency,"* says Ferira.
The takeaway? Getting too much vitamin D is extremely difficult, and it's high time brands offer formulas with realistic apprehensions for toxicity rather than erring on the low, low side of the spectrum (and not helping folks
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