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How Much Vitamin D Can Be Taken By Women?
Question: How much Vit D is correct for a 62 healthy woman - 5 ft 110lbs? I take a Vit D 3 2000, but i noticed that there is 50 mcg is that, but 400IUs in another vit that I take? Also how much water should be consumed in my ht/wt bracket? thank you, XXXX
Brief Answer:
You do not need vitamin D supplements
Detailed Answer:
Hi and thank you so much for this query.
Vitamin supplements are only needed by persons who do not get enough in diet. With a healthy living and good diets, you should not be concerned about low vitD levels. Unfortunately, persons spend so much money on vitamin supplements that they do not really need.
My advice is that you get your vitD levels checked. If they are low, then we shall supplement and if we don't find any deficiencies, I will strongly discourage you fro spending money on these highly advertised supplements that have no additional benefits to health.
For water, I will say a minimum of 1.5L per day and even more in hot climates. With well functioning kidneys, there is no need to limit how much water you can drink as the body would retain what is necessary and eliminate the rest.
Am sorry if you find this hard but that's the language I use with my clients when it comes to vitamins supplementation.
I hope you find this helpful. I wish you well. Thank you so much for using our services and feel free to ask for more
You do not need vitamin D supplements
Detailed Answer:
Hi and thank you so much for this query.
Vitamin supplements are only needed by persons who do not get enough in diet. With a healthy living and good diets, you should not be concerned about low vitD levels. Unfortunately, persons spend so much money on vitamin supplements that they do not really need.
My advice is that you get your vitD levels checked. If they are low, then we shall supplement and if we don't find any deficiencies, I will strongly discourage you fro spending money on these highly advertised supplements that have no additional benefits to health.
For water, I will say a minimum of 1.5L per day and even more in hot climates. With well functioning kidneys, there is no need to limit how much water you can drink as the body would retain what is necessary and eliminate the rest.
Am sorry if you find this hard but that's the language I use with my clients when it comes to vitamins supplementation.
I hope you find this helpful. I wish you well. Thank you so much for using our services and feel free to ask for more
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
thanks so very much. i just had yearly bloodwork done and no red flags went up. i want to get back to getting emails/ info /Emails from Dr Weil.
Brief Answer:
See below!
Detailed Answer:
I a happy to hear your yearly blood work was normal. You do not need these supplements. I really wish you would find reasons and stop this practice of routine vitamins supplementations.
I am sorry don't know Dr. Weil and cannot help you on this. I will recommend you try to search online using Google or another web search machine.
I hope this helps. I wish you well. Let me know if there is something more you would want us to address at this time.
See below!
Detailed Answer:
I a happy to hear your yearly blood work was normal. You do not need these supplements. I really wish you would find reasons and stop this practice of routine vitamins supplementations.
I am sorry don't know Dr. Weil and cannot help you on this. I will recommend you try to search online using Google or another web search machine.
I hope this helps. I wish you well. Let me know if there is something more you would want us to address at this time.
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Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
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