We use a lotta Vitamin D at Track Your Plaque. Everyone is deficient and everyone requires supplementation. Dr. Davis has found that Vitamin D revolutionized and accelerated coronary calcification reversal in addition to many other attributes:
--improved insulin resistance
--increase in HDL 20-30% (in 6-12mos)
--lowering of blood pressure
--energy
--increased testosterone (and I've noticed higher estrogen)
--protection from colds and infections
Vitamin D is a hormone... powerful, potent, and paleo-to-the-core. Since pre-paleolithic times, Vitamin D has been produced in our skin from the UVB radiation of sunlight. The sun indeed powers nearly all life on earth. It is essential and signals reproduction, energy and longevity for not just humans but all land and marine plants, prokaryotes, and animals. The sun has been around the last ~4 Billion years and scientists estimated it will continue to burn another ~4 Billion years.
If you are taking vitamin D, then you are on 'bio-identical hormone replacement therapy' baby!
Typical Dose: 2000 to 10,000 IU daily (enough to achieve and maintain ideal blood ranges 60-70 ng/ml)
Typical Administration: Morning or Daytime
(many people report insomnia, including me, if taken in the evening *makes sense right?*)
Typical Lab Monitoring: Calcium, Magnesium, PTH, [25(OH)D] every 6 months once optimal levels are obtained
TYP ical Goal: Blood [25(OH)D] = 60-70 ng/ml
Other TYP staples are: --High to Ultra-high dose fish oil 6 to 10 g EPA + DHA daily (Depending on how much inflammation and Lp(a))
--Niacin, Vitamin B3 1-2 grams daily (we prefer Slo-Niacin which is cheap $12.99 at Costco for #150 tabs)
Side benefits of
all the above:
--diminished
infections (and maybe incl HIV?)
--diminished
immunosuppression --diminished
cancers,
melanoma --diminished
wrinkles *twinkle*
--
increases life spanVitamin A (natural; not beta-carotene) Vitamin A helps all the above as well. I like Vitamin A esp because most rice-eating communities are deficient of vitamin A (Bamji MS
Experientia Suppl. 1983;44:245-63.). The Japanese diet was found to be 20% deficient in Vitamin A and Riboflavin B2. Going grain-free and eating Paleo easily ameliorates Vitamin A deficiency. In the mean time, supplementation provides a bridge until optimal health is achieved.
Read more about Vitamin A:
HERE
--improved insulin resistance
--increase in HDL 20-30% (in 6-12mos)
--lowering of blood pressure
--energy
--increased testosterone (and I've noticed higher estrogen)
--protection from colds and infections
Vitamin D is a hormone... powerful, potent, and paleo-to-the-core. Since pre-paleolithic times, Vitamin D has been produced in our skin from the UVB radiation of sunlight. The sun indeed powers nearly all life on earth. It is essential and signals reproduction, energy and longevity for not just humans but all land and marine plants, prokaryotes, and animals. The sun has been around the last ~4 Billion years and scientists estimated it will continue to burn another ~4 Billion years.
If you are taking vitamin D, then you are on 'bio-identical hormone replacement therapy' baby!
Typical Dose: 2000 to 10,000 IU daily (enough to achieve and maintain ideal blood ranges 60-70 ng/ml)
Typical Administration: Morning or Daytime
(many people report insomnia, including me, if taken in the evening *makes sense right?*)
Typical Lab Monitoring: Calcium, Magnesium, PTH, [25(OH)D] every 6 months once optimal levels are obtained
TYP ical Goal: Blood [25(OH)D] = 60-70 ng/ml
Other TYP staples are:
--High to Ultra-high dose fish oil 6 to 10 g EPA + DHA daily (Depending on how much inflammation and Lp(a))
--Niacin, Vitamin B3 1-2 grams daily (we prefer Slo-Niacin which is cheap $12.99 at Costco for #150 tabs)
Side benefits of all the above:
--diminished infections (and maybe incl HIV?)
--diminished immunosuppression
--diminished cancers, melanoma
--diminished wrinkles *twinkle*
-- increases life span
Vitamin A (natural; not beta-carotene)
Vitamin A helps all the above as well. I like Vitamin A esp because most rice-eating communities are deficient of vitamin A (Bamji MS Experientia Suppl. 1983;44:245-63.). The Japanese diet was found to be 20% deficient in Vitamin A and Riboflavin B2. Going grain-free and eating Paleo easily ameliorates Vitamin A deficiency. In the mean time, supplementation provides a bridge until optimal health is achieved.
Read more about Vitamin A: HERE