Supplement amounts can now be searched in a database – June 2013

Office of Dietary Supplements & US National Library of Medicine

• Allows searching by dose size
• Allows greater than and less than searching (e.g. > 10,000 IU)
  Example: 24 product having > 9,999 IU vitamin D as of Nov 2014
  Example: 1328 products having > 200 mg of Magnesium as of Nov 2014
• Allows searching for multiple ingredients – such as Vitamin D AND Magnesium
• Do not use quotes (e.g. search for Vitamin D, not “Vitamin D”)
• Allows AND/OR searching
• You must click on each individual result to see its list of ingredients
• Many suppliers are missing - such as Bio-Tech - the most popular Vitamind D supplier on Amazon

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See also Vitamin D Life

• Calcium bioavailability and how much to take
• Overview Magnesium and vitamin D
• Overview: Omega-3 many benefits include helping vitamin D
• Overview Vitamin K and Vitamin D
• Low cost cofactors for vitamin D which has the following summary
  

  Cofactor	How Much	Benefit Bone teeth, nails	Comments	Actual supplementation by admin of Vitamin D Life	Cents per day
  Calcium	<750mg	Yes	Is excess calcium harmful to health - 2010	0* = None: get from healthy food	0 ¢
  Magnesium	100mg (element)	Yes	May increase response to Vitamin D by 30% Many other health benefits as well	1/2 teaspoon of Magnesium Chloride ever 3 days Make it by adding hot water to bulk MgCl (1 to 1) also use topically on both knees nightly	~2 ¢
  Vitamin K2	>100 ug	Yes	perhaps 100 ug/1000 IU of vitamin D	Super K - all three forms in 1 capsule	20 ¢
  Vitamin A	?	maybe	need some, but too much is bad	0*	0
  Boron	10 mg	Yes	may increase D3 in blood by 25%	Daily in granola in the morning	1 ¢
  Silica	?	Yes		Daily - Horsetail - buy in bulk Include in morning cereal	1 ¢
  Omega-3	1 g or 1 Vectomega tablet	By increasing Vitamin D	helps health A LOT May increase active D	1 Vectomega daily - VERY bioavailable	75 ¢
  Zinc	?	?	Needed by Vitamin D Receptor Thus results not seen in Vitamin D tests	take 30 mg tablet or liquid weekly	3 ¢
  Following are NOT cofactors
  Poly fats	Ratio of types of fat	no	Almonds have the best fat ratio and they have Magnesium	daily mixed nuts	5
  Water	2.5 liters/quarts	No	Help flush kidneys of any excess Calcium Perhaps only need this much Water if >10,000 IU	>1 quart per day, filtered	0
  Iodine	?? micrograms	No	many people are deficient recently I am currently researching the topic	~600 micrograms once a week	~1¢
  Sun	How much time varies with skin type, age, latitude, clothing, stand/lie . .	Yes	Probably better than vitamin D supplements	30 minutes sun-nap 80 days/year UVB lamp in the winter	0
  Vitamin D	2,000-15,000	Yes	Proven to prevent/treat 76+ diseases	12,000 IU avg - Winter (50,000 every 4 days) 10,000 IU avg - Summer 50,000 every 5 days)	6 5