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mentosyesterday at 8:01 PM3 repliesview on HN

Careful with this I took vitamin d every day no problem for a year. Randomly started getting heart palpitations one week and was trying to figure out why. Got an Apple Watch to monitor for a fib. Was asking myself what changed in my life that it happened all of a sudden and realized I had started taking K2. ChatGPTs theory is that it really made the absorption of vit d effective and led to hypercalcemia.

Stopped taking vit d and k2 it resolved after a week no problems almost a year later.


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candiddevmikeyesterday at 8:33 PM

It should be the opposite, not taking K2 leads to calcification as K2 helps your body absorb calcium instead of lingering in your circulatory system.

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boston_cloneyesterday at 8:35 PM

people should actually be more careful about taking medical advice from an LLM than grabbing a vitamin D supplement.

gbear605yesterday at 8:27 PM

You’re warning people to be cautious of taking Vitamin D… because you had problems with potassium supplements? Those are entirely different things with entirely different risk profiles.

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