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Cant take deep breaths
I have been having this issue since I overdosed on vitamin A , Its actually one of my symptoms during flare ups , nose breathing becomes more difficult . And I get wheezing sound when I exhale ( if it was ashma , I would be coughing and stuff) . But when I am mot symptomatic , I can breathe well .
I've included more calcium and folate into my diet because I was low in those. I've also started supplementing with D and am taking K2 and magnesium along with it. I've taken a loading dose of about 250,000 IU of Vit D over the last three days. I will now take 7000 IU per day. My breathing is already easier so something I've done has helped.
Vitamin D deficiency is associated with COPD. I'm thinking when liver va is released that it can exacerbate D deficiency symptoms.
I would never take the "loading dose" of any vitamin... and especially not fat soluble vitamins. Then the body's regulatory mechanisms may be bypassed to protect us from toxicity. And the cofactors needed to build in the vitamin D in the body are not able to replenish so fast. Slower saturation is always better. When I had a severe vitamin D deficiency a few years ago, it was very difficult for me to saturate the cofactors at the dose 10,000 IU daily, I was still deficient in magnesium or calcium, even phosphorus (too much calcium without phosphorus is bad, in food is always calcium+phosphorus+magnesium in different ratios) or vitamin K. The better the level of vitamin D, the more efficient the body can use calcium from food, the second month I didn't need calcium anymore, just magnesium.
When my vitamin D level exceeded 50 ng/ml, I no longer felt any additional benefits from vitamin D supplementation.
And the more deficient a person is, the more likely he is to have an initial worsening of symptoms, which happened to me and therefore I had to reduce my dose to 5000 IU for the first two weeks.
Fair enough but remember in conditions of summer sunlight it is normal to generate 10000+ IU per day which comes with no "co factors". Magnesium isn't something that we store in any great amount so deficiency/excess states can change in a matter of days. A lot of people that claim to be magnesium deficient take enormous amounts, I think a lot of the time they will find they are D deficient and probably have other issues like VA and iron overload. I partially agree with slower saturation but often it just isn't better. For example if someone has scurvy or beriberi or rickets slower saturation is counterproductive.
How did you know you were Magnesium deficient?
You need the cofactors for "sunshine vitamin D" too... But what's interesting, when I was deficient I could have been in the intense sun for an hour and it didn't have the same strong effect as 10 000 IU orally - as if the vitamin D from the sun was formed in the body very slowly and gradually. And an increased need for magnesium arises as a person takes vitamin D - you need magnesium for vitamin D activation, and the more deficient a person is, the more he needs cofactors.
10 000 IU vitamin D daily actually is not so slow saturation but this dose was the highest I could tolerate, really slow saturation is 2000-4000 IU daily. With the dose 10 000 IU daily I was able to increase the level of vitamin D every month by about 10 ng/ml. And when a person is deficient for a long time, the body is not even able to "repair" itself so quickly. So some people need a few months to get rid of all the deficiency symptoms. And for some reason, some people quickly lose vitamin D.
"How did you know you were Magnesium deficient?" - because after a few days of vitamin D saturation, it just didn't work anymore. I didn't feel its effect. So I knew I was missing some cofactors and after magnesium supplementation, vitamin D worked again. But then I had problems with vitamin K, I overdosed MK-7 - because some people can not metabolise this form of vitamin K, it is stored for several days in the body and gradually I developed toxicity. So I switched to mk-4 und everything was ok.
@y'all might be interested in what this doc has to say at around the 52:00 mark about vitamin D.
Quote from hillcountry on December 12, 2019, 7:49 am@y'all might be interested in what this doc has to say at around the 52:00 mark about vitamin D.
He lost me as soon as I saw his gut and he spoke about correcting "metabolic disturbances".
bummer, then you probably missed the part at 57:00 where he describes a successful court case he helped win, one that hinged on MARCONS lab data, (the CIRS Protocol uses the old range). They won millions for a worker injured by a moldy workplace. LabCorp changed the range for the test two weeks later. Turns out LabCorp owned the insurance company that had to pay out on the case.
Makes me wonder about thyroid testing and how so many people one meets are taking thyroid. I stopped for a long time, over a year, just to see what would happen symptom-wise. Nada, even though my TSH is through the roof according to the "range".
@hillcountry, there is an interesting book called hypothyroidism type 2, Mark Starr, and it talks about how in the olden days, before tests, people were treated for thyroid based on symptoms. You would dose at the rate that fixed the symptoms. That makes a lot more sense because tests don't tell the whole story about anything, IMO. It's not just what is in your blood stream it is how you are using it etc.
(this book draws a parallel with type 1 and 2 diabetes. In one, there is a lack of insulin, in the other, the cells have become resistant to insulin)
However, the book did leave me hanging about the whys of thyroid problems, (because taking thyroid is a helpful bandaid, but if something is going on, it will continue to get worse if the cause isn't addressed.) Maybe Grant's VA work will fill in some of the blanks.
@tim-2, this speaker does have a bit of the fleshy look that can accompany thyroid problems (myxedema). Having myxedma might not preclude someone from having great ideas, though--it's a pretty sticky problem given that docs don't care anymore about getting rid of it. (I get you that he hasn't fixed himself though) I wonder if low VA would help him. I'm pretty sure that myxedema is not even fat really, it is actually sort of a watery swelling that happens in low thyroid. It often gives a jowly look. In the olden days, the reduction of myxedema was one of the things they were watching for when adjusting dosage.
An interesting thing to wonder is whether some people who loose weight on lowered VA are actually loosing myxedema (rather than fat). As their thyroid issues get better?