Posted by Larry Hoover on March 8, 2009, at 10:53:41
In reply to Re: How Inflammatory Disease Can Cause Fatigue » SLS, posted by Larry Hoover on March 8, 2009, at 7:59:34
> > > I've got to get on my commitment to write a long reply on vitamin D RDA, so I don't want to go on too long here.
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> > Real quick, Larry, if you will, how many IU is equivalent to 2.5mg vitamin D?. I just read a paper reporting that when this amount of vitamin D is taken every day, the frequency of respiratory infections was sharply reduced.
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> > - Scott
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> The mg to IU conversion for vitamin D3 is 1:40. So, 2.5 mg is 100 IU.
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> LarI'm sorry, but I misread what you said. I'm only off by a factor of 1,000. One mcg is 40 IU. One mg is 40,000 IU. 2.5 mg is 100,000 IU.
Lar
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