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<p>I agree - it is mostly true. There is some reserach that inducates that taking excessive amounts of folic acid could actually be doing more harm than good. Excess of Vit A and its related substances can be really bad as well.</p>
<p>But in our case, supplementation with Vitamin D really worked as our blood tests indicate - after taking the supplement, we are lucky to be among the 20% of Seattle residents who do not have Vit D defficiency!</p>
<p>Fish Oil
Vitamin D</p>
<p>One of my favorite topics! :)</p>
<p>1/2 dose of a very high quality multi-vitamin (AOR Ortho-core)
high potency fish oil 6 grams/day
D3 5000-7000 IU/day
K2 (mk7 form) 90 mcg/day
C 2 grams/day</p>
<p>Magnesium 400 mg/day (citrate form)
Iodine 12.5 mg/day</p>
<p>Probiotic
Pomegranate extract
Chocolate extract
Curcumin extract
Green tea extract
Astaxanthin
CoQ10
DHEA</p>
<p>I probably left a few things out.</p>
<p>My doctor wants me at 50 ng/ml for D3, that’s why I take so much.</p>
<p>I also donate blood regularly to remove iron from my body (I am male).</p>
<p>Wow! Seems like everyone is on vitamin D now – me too - 2000 IU per day.</p>
<p>Ideally if you are going to supplement vitamin D, you should get your level checked, it’s an inexpensive blood test. Although it is almost impossible to overdose on less than 20,000 IU/day, people vary quite a bit in their response, and if you are trying to obtain an optimal level (45-50 ng/ml according to my doctor), you have to get tested to see where you are at.</p>
<p>Just in a conversation about this recently. We were surprised at our collective lack of knowledge on the topic!..Does it matter when you take certain supplements or what they are combined with? Believe it’s recommended to avoid taking iron at the same time you take calcium.</p>
<p>Daily
Low dose baby aspirin
Magnesium (keeps my heart palpitations at bay)
B-12 (I had a deficiency at one point)</p>
<p>Few times a week
fish oil (should take this more - I tend to forget)
Vitamin C
Calcium ( I get at least 2 servings of milk a day)
Potassium</p>
<p>I’m not a big believer in taking mega doses of vitamins. The research is starting to show you can do more harm than good.</p>
<p>Well, during my regular blood test last week, my doctor got a bit snippy with me as we discussed my schedule of prescriptions and supplements. When I mentioned the multi-vitamin, she gave me a smerch and said “that’s useless.” Well excuse me. She also questioned my use of potassium. Look, I told her, I’ve read alot about this stuff. The multivitamin may not growing me a third lung or fifth kidney (LOL), but I do believe it is helping and not hurting. And I was given prescription potassium starting a couple of years ago. As a matter of fact, I had given up potassium pills years ago in favor of an increased intake of bananas, orange juice, avacados and my usual potato dishes. My doctor at the time didn’t like that idea.</p>
<p>I take prescription D (50,000 once a week). I’ve taken it for 4 weeks at a time 3 times over the last year, and every time I stop (per the doctor’s orders to check my levels), it drops very low. My last 2 tests had my level at 10 and 7, and the doctor wants me at 45-50. The low levels were in the summer, and I garden a lot, ride bikes and walk, so am outside a good bit. I also take Calcium and D twice a day. I have osteopenia and osteoarthritis, and my doctors (orthopaedist, rheumatologist and internist) are adamant i take calcium and D. I also have practically nonexistent levels of B, so get an injection once a month and take oral drops a couple of times a week.</p>
<p>Vit D3 here, too, 2 X 1000 IU. I’m happy that DH and I now belong to the 20% minority of Seattleites who are not Vit D defficient.</p>
<p>Fish Oil, GlucosamineChrondriotin, and a One a Day Women’s</p>
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Have they said anything about taking magnesium and vitamin K2? Along with calcium and vitamin D, they all work together to regulate calcium in your body.</p>
<p>What form of calcium is it?</p>
<p>Magnesium deficiency is actually fairly common, most people can benefit from taking it.</p>
<p>Well Bunsen, my folks back home in the Great Northwest the the recent “heat waves” may have cured them of any Vitamin D deficiency. LOL.</p>
<p>Calcium, D, multivitamin, Glucasomine-C, fish oil, ginger, C, CoQ-10, lutein, ginkgo Biloba. The herbs are every other day and the others daily. I am careful what I eat and try to get lots of variety in veggies and fruits and different meats and fish. I consider my meals like my vitamins. I watch my weight. I am a breast cancer patient and take a powerful medicine. I walk to work and home and walk more than use my car. I am close to 5 years out from my cancer diagnosis and value every minute. 
And I am creeping up in my 60s and still work.</p>
<p>over30, I have the same problem! Every year my doc tests my vitamin D, says it’s low - take 50,000 a week for 10-13 weeks, then it comes up. I take 1000 a day for the rest of the year, and it goes back down. Now we’ll try 2000 a day for maintenance.</p>
<p>I recently started fish oil in the liquid form. My eye doctor wants me to take an occuvite to slow the inevitable onset of macular degeneration.</p>
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The Vitamin D Council recommends 5000 IU/day for adults, along with testing to adjust for individual variation.</p>
<p>[Am</a> I Vitamin D Deficient?](<a href=“Vitamin D deficiency”>Vitamin D deficiency)</p>
<p>It’s extremely hard to take too much (toxicity doesn’t start until around 40,000 IU/day for extended periods), unless you have a condition that makes you hypersensitive, such as hyperparathyroidism.</p>