Reddit mentions of Bio-Tech Pharmacal - D3-50 - 100 Count

I think your anxiety is very likely to be a psychological problem. You simply became very worried about taking "high dosage" of it, BUT I can put your mind to rest!


Last winter 2014/2015 I have been taking very high doses of Vitamin D3 for a little more than three months. I read some articles about possibility of healing some ailments in this way so I gave it a shot. Every day I took 50,000 BioTech Pharmacal D3 + 5 Life Extension Super K and I felt great and had no problems at all, important thing is to take Vitamin K2 with it.


My health problem has greatly improved and is now nearly gone. At the moment I'm taking D3 again since the beginning of December 2015 and will take it for another few weeks until my bottle is finished, this will be enough for me this winter.

So if you take it occasionally, it wont make any harm to you, but if you plan to take high doses of it regularly you definitely need to take K2 with it! this is very important as it redirects calcium from your veins to your bones, otherwise you'll calcify veins and this can create some serious problems.

Went through the same thing as you.

I was prescribed 50,000 IU's a week for 2 months to correct my deficiency. You can buy prescription strength D3 supplements on Amazon for cheap. This is what I took: https://www.amazon.com/Biotech-Pharmacal-D3-50-000iu-Capsules/dp/B000A0F2B2 Only 1 pill a week, much easier than counting drops everyday.

Was completely back in the normal range after about 8-10 weeks. You'll want to have another blood test to confirm. After that, you can switch to a much lower dosage to maintain. Getting about 1000 IU per day is keeping me at a nice, normal level.

> you'd be taking a lot of pills to get 50,000

The 50,000 IU kind also comes in tiny pills that you can buy on Amazon, no prescription needed. I take one every 10 days; works well.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B000A0F2B2

It might be D3.

D2 is falling out of favor with a lot of folks due to it not being readily picked up on commercial assays, so that even when the patient is fully replete they can still look deficient. It's really only been used historically because while there are no high dose prescription D3 products, there are for D2.

You can easily buy 50,000 international units D3 capsules though. Biotech Pharmaceuticals is $23 for 100 capsules of 50k D3 on Amazon and is a reputable manufacturer - https://www.amazon.com/Biotech-Pharmacal-D3-50-000iu-Capsules/dp/B000A0F2B2/ Some physicians even stock 50k unit D3 capsules in the office and sell it to their patients - though that's potentially a conflict of interest.

The only thing I don't like about it is most patients don't need anywhere near 100 capsules.

At my nutritionist's recommendation, I picked up these vitamin D supplements. She said that most people should take one pill every two weeks.

Paleo's one drawback is the lack of vit D in the food. Lots of processed foods have it added, so most people get enough between being outside and eating it in their food. If you aren't going to be outside a lot, I'd recommend adding it through supplements.

You paid $200 for D-3 test?

Here's all the D-3 you need for several years: http://www.amazon.com/Bio-Tech-D3-50-000-100-caps/dp/B000A0F2B2/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1395380901&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=50000+iu