Vitamin D plus calcium tied to longer life

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    Maria

    They're saying, Take them at the same time, right? Good to know.

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    VicMOsaka

    Vitamin D, as in D3 is a suppliment I will never be without. I have taken 5000iu every day for the last 3 years and never once had a cold or flu in all that time. Before, I always used to get the flu at least twice a year. 800iu as a guidline by USA officials is a useless dose. I have always taken various suppliments and I have never suffered any great health problems in my life.

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    UncleBudah

    Elder people ,,,60 plus, also if you drink too much calcium,,, you will be suffering from kidney stones,,,ouch!

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    wipeout

    800iu is the RDA (recommended dietary allowance) suggested, for example, by Health Canada. I believe the NIH says 600. It's not a dose.

    Taking huge doses of vitamins is faddism. The recommended upper safe limit for vitamin D is 4000iu. People who want to take more are free to do so, but what qualifies them to dismiss the prevailing medical advice as "useless"? How could they know?

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    VicMOsaka

    wipeoutJun. 26, 2012 - 08:19PM JST 800iu is the RDA (recommended dietary allowance) suggested, for example, by Health Canada. I believe the NIH says 600. It's not a dose.

    If it's not a dose, then why does the article keep referring to doses? As usual with most medical research on vitamins, they fail to state if they are synthetic vitamins or not. As the article does not refer to vitamin D as D3, one has to presume they are using synthetic versions which are not recommended by all health professionals well versed in the subject of vitamins and suppliments.

    Us " people " are witness to the benefits of vitamin doses over and above the RDA guidlines by the fact that we are healthy and have not had any adverse reactions to our vitamin taking habits. On the other hand, just look at how many people suffer and die from pharmacy drugs recommended by the prevailing medical community.

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    wipeout

    If it's not a dose, then why does the article keep referring to doses?

    In each place where the article refers to dose, it is in the context of trials, as stated in the abstract: "Through a systematic literature search, we identified 24 randomized controlled trials reporting data on mortality in which vitamin D was given either alone or with calcium."

    Note the word "given". That is a dose. This is not a difficult distinction.

    What you talk about as useless (which you wouldn't know) is a recommended daily intake It is about what people should be getting through the food they eat, hence the use of terms such as dietary reference intake and the careful avoidance of the word dose.

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