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Posted 1/3/2014 11:37 PM (GMT 0)
This is a good article for those of you who don't do much research on nutrition. It will spur us all on to be sure we get enough. I don't all the time.

articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/01/02/vitamin-d-deficiency-depression.aspx?e_cid=20140102Z1_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20140102Z1&et_cid=DM38333&et_rid=386765596 :-)
Posted 1/4/2014 1:21 AM (GMT 0)
 

Do you also take K2? 

Patty

Posted 1/4/2014 5:50 AM (GMT 0)
I think it's in my multiple.
Posted 1/5/2014 6:25 PM (GMT 0)
There are those that already have very high levels of Vitamin D in their body and they must not supplement this. Please be sure to have your blood tested if you don't know where your levels of Vitamin D are!!

Vitamin K is actually pretty easy to get through your diet. My hubby is on Coumadin for the rest of his life, so we have to really watch his dietary intake of vitamin K because it interacts with Coumadin. If you are eating lots of leafy greens- especially the dark ones - chances are you are getting enough vitamin K - but again, be sure to get tested before just making too many changes.
Posted 1/5/2014 8:05 PM (GMT 0)
There are also very many who are too low on it, so testing needs to be done for both too much and too little. My doc doesn't have us take a lot each day, so it builds up gradually. I think that makes a lot of sense.

Getting it from the sun is best, but not possible in many places in the winter. I don't take any during the summer since I'm outside so much and I don't use sun block so that I can absorb it. I'm moving around a lot, so it's not just hitting one area.

As the article states, it's not really a vitamin and it serves so many functions in our bodies.
Posted 1/6/2014 2:36 AM (GMT 0)
Does anyone here know what causes vitamin D to go low on Lyme infected people?

Since it plays such a critical part in fighting infections, I wonder if the bacteria have found a way to lower it so that the immune system is disabled. But, I also wonder if the body's defense mechanism lowers vitamin D as part of its fight mechanism to kill the bacteria.
Posted 1/6/2014 7:55 AM (GMT 0)
Maybe some just aren't absorbing as much as they need. D3 is the one to take So many people thought they got plenty from fortified milk, but they used D2, so it's not absorbed as well. It needs other nutrients with it too.
Posted 1/6/2014 12:09 PM (GMT 0)
It may have something to do with how the liver handles managing the toxins from Lyme and there might be have an impact on vitamin D absorption. Also, from what I read on forum, people with Lyme have elevated liver levels add well.
Posted 1/6/2014 1:28 PM (GMT 0)
Since this thread has been started, I would like to ask a question I asked before.

This is a thread I posted in September 2013 - there was not much reaction to it...

https://www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=30&m=2758381

I'm one of those people that have extremely high levels of Vit D in my blood - the 1,25 Dihydroxy Vit D.

Maybe there is someone on here meanwhile who can answer why I could have this very high level of 1,25 di-oh Vitamin D in my blood?

This is also a good reminder to get itested again this month.

 

Posted 1/6/2014 8:33 PM (GMT 0)
You could try posting your question in the comments section of the article and see if anyone has any ideas for you. You should mention your infection too.
Posted 1/6/2014 9:58 PM (GMT 0)
Marie,
For give me for not thinking of this sooner - there is a protocol for those with very high Vit. D levels - the Marshall protocol.

"At the center of the Marshall Protocol is the breakthrough discovery that Vitamin D is not handled correctly in the bodies of people infected with cell-wall-deficient bacteria."
www.lymebook.com/marshall-protocol

mpkb.org/home/diseases/lyme
Posted 1/7/2014 12:27 AM (GMT 0)
I found an online article (published in The Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences) in which they "propose that the lower levels result from chronic infection with intracellular bacteria that dysregulate vitamin D metabolism by causing vitamin D receptor (VDR) dysfunction within phagocytes.".

This is the link:

http://autoimmunityresearch.org/preprints/WaterhouseAnnals2009Preprint.pdf
Posted 1/8/2014 9:14 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks you 2 for bringing up that factor. I never came across that in any of my reading on Vitamin D over the years.
Posted 1/9/2014 12:31 AM (GMT 0)
My vitamin D was incredibly low before treatment, so my doctor put me on 5,000 IU a day. After a month or so, it went up a little but it still wasn't where she wanted it, so we added another 1,000 IU. She claims that it is very difficult to heal from Lyme if your Vitamin D levels are low, so we check this consistently. I have my fasting lab-work once a month to check forthis, along with kidney/liver, and these have always been fine.
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