I think your comment about perscription Vitamin D being the wrong kind of treatment is wrong. I was given a perscription for Vitamin D which I took weekly and then retested in 3 months which my Vitamin D level had returned to normal. Today it is still within the normal range and this was a year ago.
Research by: Kerri
My advice is all research based, and not just an opinion pulled out of thin air. If you are looking for 'just' higher blood levels, then Vitamin D2 will certainly do that. But personally, I want Vitamin D for it's disease prevention ability, and Vitamin D2 is inferior for that purpose.
Also, I suspect that if you have not taken Vitamin D in a year, that your levels are in the 'normal' range, as according to the outdated and not research based laboratory levels that are reported, but not within the optimal range as I outline on my Vitamin D Levels page.
As an analogy, both sawdust and grass fed beef will fill your belly and stop you from being hungry, but one is a superior source of nutrition over the other. And Vitamin D3 is a superior source of nutrition over Vitamin D2. In fact, in nature, there are no sources of Vitamin D2 except sun dried mushrooms. That nature did not provide humans with natural sources of D2, and it must be chemically synthesized tells us a lot.
Kerri Knox, RN
Malabsorption by: Kerri Knox, RN- The Immune System Queen
while it's a LITTLE curious that your level is so low, you are STILL taking only about 1000 IU's of vitamin D per day. That is the proper dose for an INFANT. It's FAR FAR too little for an adult to even maintain a normal level!
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