How you might double your response to vitamin D

There are many ways to increase the response to the amount of vitamin D you take

    % ? = guess - there is very little data

• Take vitamin D with the largest meal of the day 56%, or evening meal
  • This was a pilot study in 2010. A clinical trial is underway - results due in 2017
  • Apparenly supplements/pills taken just after the last meal of the day have the longest time to be absorbed
• Consider taking a different form of vitamin D: 50% ?
  • Bio emulsified  Sublingual or even just a different brand or capsule instead of solid
  • Here is Vitamin D Life overview of vitamin D forms
  • topical - Aloe cream for example
• Have far more mono-unsaturated fats in your diet than poly-unsaturated fats
  Every 1 unit increase in the Mono/Poly ratio ==> 6.5 ng/ml increase in vitamin D in blood
  Suggest taking vitamin D with a few almonds.
• Get more Magnesium say 500 mg daily (of the element, not the compound) 20% ?
  • Of some interest - one woman successfully takes her vitamin D and Magnesium just one day a month.
• Get more vitamin K2: 10% ? especially benefits the bone. perhaps
• Have enough Boron: 20% ?
  • 10 mg Boron helped - does not say how much
  • 6 mg Boron helped Vitamin D levels increased 24%, but this was just a pilot study
• Have at least some fat in your diet in that meal, or perhaps just in a meal the day you get additional vitamin D: 10%?
• Have enough cholesterol in your diet: 10% ?
  • Cholesterol is essential for your skin to make vitamin D from the sun as well as adsorb vitamin D in your gut
• Have enough, but not too much Calcium 1   2 500 mg
• Have some, but not too much, vitamin A: 20% ?
• Reduce weight if obese - not an easy thing, but vitamin D will help about 30% of the obese lose weight: 70% ?
• Do not smoke - Smoking decreases Calcium which uses up vitamin D: 20% ?
• Do not use cola soft drinks - Cola, like smoking, reduces Calcium and thus vitamin D: 20% ?
• Omega-3 fatty acids may increase active vitamin D levels in your body by 60%
  The study showed the increase for those with kidney failures who took 3 grams of Omega-3 daily
  Hope to find a study of Omega-3 for those with functioning kidneys
• Poor absorption of Vitamin D is strongly related to type of gut bacteria – Dec 2020

Here is the summary of Co-factors web page - Aug 2012

Co-factor	How Much	Benefit Bone	Bioavailability	Balance body	Notes
Calcium	<750mg	Yes	probably	Yes	Avoid getting too much
Magnesium	500mg	Yes	Yes	Yes	Very important, big range in bio-availability
Vitamin K2		Yes	maybe	?
Vitamin A		maybe	?		controversy
Boron	5-10mg	Yes	25%	?
Silica		Yes	no	?
Strontium		Yes	no	?	rarely available
Zinc		Yes	maybe	?

Studies have shown that, taken separately, the changes listed above will increase the benefits to oral vitamin D3 by a total of at least 2X

So far, there is no indication as to the benefits if you have a combination of the above changes

We speculate: 3X?, 4X?

I, Henry Lahore, the admin of VitaminDWIki, did all of the above and seem to have gotten a HUGE (perhaps 60 ng) increase in my Vitamin D blood level

But, some of the increase might have been due to my trying to optimize the vitamin D from the sun

Note: some of the above may also increase the benefits of vitamin D from the skin (sun or UV)

No data - just guess that you will increase the benefit of vitamin D from the skin by:

• Increasing Magnesium, Cholesterol, Vitamin K2
• Reducing smoking, weight, cola drinks, vitamin A

See also Vitamin D Life

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• All items How Much Vitamin D 342 items
• All items Vitamin D interactions some medicines decrease vitamin D 121 items
• All items Loading/Megadose 200 items
  • sometimes a person is so low on vitamin D that it takes months to add enough to get a benefit
• All items Cholesterol and vitamin D 51 items
• Overview Obesity and Vitamin D
  • Extra fat can sidetrack 1/2 to 2/3 of the vitamin D that would otherwise get to the blood
• All items - After surgery or trauma 333 items
  • major stresses can quickly ( within 2 days) reduce the vitamin D levels in the blood by half
• Ways to increase the amount of vitamin D you get from the sun
• Iron deficiency is a cause of Vitamin D deficiency
• Fastest way to get vitamin D (without an IV) = spray the inside of your cheek
• Gut-Friendly Vitamin D Different form of D3 which is especially good for those with gut problems
• Review of bioavailability of vitamin D - oil aprox 2 ng per 100 IU Sept 2010
• Sublingual vitamin D
• All items in category Predict Vitamin D 79 items
• Vitamin D bioavailability: State of the art – Oct 2014
• Vitamin D 30 percent more available at breakfast which had high fat content – Nov 2014
• Vitamin D sprayed inside cheeks (buccal spray) - several studies

Many ways to increase Vitamin D

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