If you are taking the common Vit D pills (cholecalciferol), it will not affect your blood test level. If you are taking calcifediol, it will definitely skewer the results … as it raises the level almost within the hour.
Your liver is not working well to convert it into the active form… just like mine. Try taking calcifediol instead… (but a lot less… no more than 10mcg per day)
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I just got my blood work back for Vitamin D…
Previously I was ranging between 72 - 98 nmol/L.
However, the reason why this test is so high is because the night before I accidentally took 5 x 10mcg of calcifediol… and as you know it will raise the vitamin D level very quickly. I will have to wait another 4 weeks before I take another blood test and then see if i can maintain around 110nmol/L by just taking 10mcg x2 a week, since we know the half life is about 2 weeks in calcifediol.
I bought a bottle of Swisse fast acting Vitamin D (calcifediol) from the local pharmacy for $14 AUD, which has 90x 10mcg tablets. Good to know that it works. I know my liver isnt the best organ to rely on for Vitamin D.
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Hmmmm… great to know, vitamin D helps build muscles 
reduce fat through calories.
My Vitamin D is checked every 4 months by my physician - he keeps me at high normal 80+.
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Out of curiosity, why so high? That is certainly above any guidelines and we know that we don’t fully understand all that vitamin D does.
Guidelines say don’t supplement over 50. Certain disease states have certain specialists going higher but usually 70. I have seen patients admitted to the hospital from over supplementation.
Not that I think 80 is bad just wondering the rational.
I am wondering if lamps wouldn’t be a better idea. Sort of like salmon instead of fish pills.
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You asked: That is certainly above any guidelines …
Not my lab test guidelines. Range is 30 to 100. I only hit these higher levels (83.5) when I add modest sun tanning to my supplement of D3. See:
Also, my B12 is kept high… went up this time. Only slightly above range. But, my doctor said fine. Great for neurological function - cognitive function - mental health, energy function.
He likes numbers as high as possible within the normal range… testosterone estradiol, potassium… etc.
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Vitamin D at 83 from my checkup a few weeks ago. Spent New Years in Puerto Rico… on the beach, definitely kicked it up. Lol
How are your numbers Joe?
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@Agetron I need to test again. I’ve been unable to get much sunshine lately plus I just had some cancer cut out of my back. I’ve been taking Vitamin D3 as Calcifediol for a year now as I’m convinced Vit D is low hanging fruit. My last test was 42 after a year of high dose supplementation. I’m aiming for 60-80 but using hand grenades instead of a sniper rifle
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@Joseph_Lavelle sorry to hear you found cancer!!! I’m also very happy to hear you caught it!!! Did you discover a lump?
My vit d is usually in the 70’s. I have 2000iu in my multi and then I add 2000iu more from Vitamore.
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Hopefully the rapamycin will prevent future cancer cell issues.
Good for you Joe.
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Posted in another thread, review.
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Review / search the the high-dose vitamin D protocol , known as the Coimbra protocol.
One of the better videos
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Thanks. Yes a lump (or so I’m told…it was on my back). It quickly became a wound with the skin broken. A photo was taken. By the time I got into the doctor, it was healed enough to not look like anything. The photo looked suspicious so a biopsy was taken. And sure enough it was a Squamish cell. I’m now using a cream to kill it.
It’s my first cancer. Probably not my last.
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I think it will help. I got off rapa last summer after I got sick twice and felt off for 5 months. I think my immune system was down; I quit rapa and fasting to let the immune function come back to full power. I’d guess that’s when the cancer got away. I’m back to full power now; stronger than ever; healthy as a young Joe. Rapa to restart soon but this time I’m going to follow a Kaeberlein protocol rather than the every month big dose (7mg w/GFj) combined with monthly FMD approach I was using. That was too much stress apparently.
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Thanks. I saw this before. It is very good. I’m sold on vitamin D.
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My D is in range but sub-optimal at 31, a score that should be expected from a non-supplementing, sun-avoiding subject with pale Irish skin. Truly, I hate the sun, except for the distant sun of a northern winter. I love to watch that winter sun go down.
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You’re high normal in everything.
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Nice… will take that a compliment. Go big or go home.
Only interested in longevity because so much to see and do. 100 years isn’t enough years. Lol
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Definitely a compliment. You make Bryan Johnson look anemic.
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