inposition wrote:Matt,
Thanks for the post. Very informative and helpful.
I started taking Vitamin D/K2 is high amounts a few months ago and all my lingering aches and pains are now gone. I seem to recover better, and I think my testosterone is up. I don't know if it was the D/K2 for sure because I also started taking a bunch of other stuff, including magnesium; however, I'm almost certain the D/K2 has helped.
One note, I've heard and read that in addition to K2, you should take vitamin A when you're taking high amounts of vitamin D. My understand is that you’re gonna wanna be close to a 1:1 to a 2:1 ratio of vitamin A to vitamin D. Ben Greenfield, for one, talks about this.
What are your thoughts on including vitamin A with this vitamin D?
Here's an excellent, but long explanation and article with various studies, etc talking about A to D ratios, etc...basically A is only toxic when Vitamin D is deficient. Even with only 1,000 IU of Vitamin D, the toxicity level of Vitamin A is raised by 175,000 IU's...
https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topi ... is/#table3
I've read that the optimal A to D ratio is nearer 5:1 as it is found in natural things like fermented cod liver oil...but I think its up for debate because they are just not 100% sure. A few mistakenly think that Vitamin A and D compete for the same receptor but I believe this has been shown to be false...
It has been shown that Vitamin A is needed in sufficient quantities for a specific form called 9-cis to be available for Vitamin D as it works in conjunction with helping it bind to the receptor site and without sufficient quantities of that specific Vitamin A analog, it cannot do its job properly...
Yes I have noticed the same thing! I had a long term forearm tendonitis issue where certain movements like overhand pullups would really bother it---been going on for almost 2 years now in some severity or another and its all but gone since I've been on this...
Magnesium is definitely a key player in all of this as well---4th most abundant mineral in the body and tends to get used up under stressful situations very quickly by the adrenals and is needed to basically "slap" calmodulin and tell it to get out of where its not supposed to be...its also used up much quicker with high Vitamin D intake as its utilized in a lot of different enzymatic reactions that take place as well...
However, people with adrenal fatigue are going to want to supplement with sodium and Vitamin C as well, as magnesium causes sodium to be used up...without enough sodium, the adrenals will kick into overdrive producing Aldosterone to try and hold onto the sodium, thereby causing more fatigue instead of helping them...
Sodium Bicarbonate(good ole baking soda) and Magnesium Oil(Magnesium Chloride) are considered pretty miraculous when taken together by quite a few people from what I am reading...
