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(More customer reviews)This is my eight month since I started taking the Vitamin D3 Gold. I had to start supplementing in November 2010 after my blood test showed showed a reading of 18 ng/mL while the actual normal level needed to be around 30 ng/mL (75 nmol/L). I actually started taking the Vitamin D3 GOLD - 5000 IU and ate 2 a day until March 2011 when I had my second test. My level increased to 45 ng/mL and reduced the dosage to just one softgel per day (btw, I have to mention that I can barely feel these tiny softgels going down my throat).
After my test results, I was about to discontinue supplementing Vitamin D3 but decided to check online and found this on the Vitamin D council website:
"Studies indicate that for proper health, serum vitamin D levels should be a minimum of 50 ng/mL (125 nmol/L), with optimal levels falling between 50-80 ng/mL (125-200 nmol/L). These values apply to both children and adults."
Since I started to feel so much better at just 45 ng/mL, I kept supplementing to reach my optimum level of 50-80. Had I just gone with my lab results, I would have stopped supplementing since my lab report considers anything above 30 to be normal. Or I may have reduced the dosage. Except, on my research online, I have found that 60% of North Americans are Vitamin D deficient (one study found the majority of surfers in Hawaii to be deficient also). I guess I will be supplementing with Vitamin D for a while. It is shocking to me that I live in sunny florida and spend plenty of time outdoors every day but my Vitamin D levels were so low on my first test before I started supplementing.
This summer I am spending a lot of time outdoors everyday and therefore decided to supplement with 2000 IU instead of 5000 IU. These softgels are just as tiny as the 5000 IU softgels I have been taking. Not to mention that the price is just too good on Amazon.
A helpful tip I found online:
"Ask your doctor for a 25-hydroxyvitamin D, or 25(OH)D, test. One may also refer to it simply as a "vitamin D test." In the past, doctors have been known to order a 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D test. This is the wrong test as it cannot determine vitamin D deficiency. Make sure your doctor orders the correct test."
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