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kazinatoryesterday at 11:12 PM1 replyview on HN

I experimented with D3 supplementation up to almost a decade ago. I made some HN comments about it [2018]:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17638508

I ultimately stopped it because it seemed to cause lower back aches. (Pretty sure, bone/muscle not kidney!) Every time I went on the D3, my back would start to hurt. That repeated several times, enough to suspect a pattern.

The cause may be similar to the itchy, tingling teeth.

According to this fascinating paper, Vitamin D can actually trigger the leaching of calcium out of bones, into circulation:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8147670/

After the abstract, find the section heading "Vitamin D mobilizes calcium from calcified bone".

But that is in very high, pharmacological doses. Not your 5000 UI per day.


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dashmeettoday at 1:31 AM

Not medical advice.

You probably need to take vitamin d3 with k2 to avoid the calcium issues.

Edited to add link https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5613455/