10,000 IU of Vitamin D: HUGE MISTAKE?!

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Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 6 March 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Many people only take between 600 to 2000 IUs of vitamin D each day. Did you know that 10,000 IUs of vitamin D3 is only .25 mg?

Vitamin D is the most important vitamin. It controls 10% of your genetics. Over 90% of the population has less than 40 ng per mL of vitamin D3 in their blood. The guidelines of 600 IUs of vitamin D3 are based on preventing rickets, supporting bone health, and managing calcium in the blood, not for the countless other functions of vitamin D.

Low vitamin D levels are caused by people staying indoors, location, skin color, and other lifestyle and genetic factors.

Low vitamin D symptoms include:

•Low back pain

•High blood pressure

•Depression

•Anxiety

•Inflammation

•Poor immune function

Sunblock blocks the absorption of vitamin D. In 1980, society became sun phobic in an attempt to prevent skin cancer, which has continued to increase despite less sun exposure.

You need 10,000 IUs of vitamin D daily, especially for immune function. This amount of vitamin D is the same amount you’d get from 20 minutes of sun exposure in the summertime.

When you get a blood test for vitamin D, they’re not checking for the active form and are not accounting for vitamin D resistance. Many things block the vitamin D receptor and contribute to vitamin D resistance, including genetics, plastics, forever chemicals, age, weight, inflammation, pregnancy, and lactation.

Vitamin D3 won’t work without magnesium. As you increase your vitamin D intake, the demand for magnesium increases. Vitamin K2 and zinc are also vital when increasing your vitamin D dosage.

Vitamin D has potent anti-cancer and anti-tumor benefits at therapeutic doses. It can also combat inflammation and autoimmune conditions. Dr. Coimbra of Brazil has seen positive effects with high doses of vitamin D in people with autoimmune conditions.

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0:00.0	10,000 international units of vitamin D3.
0:02.8	Is this a huge mistake or a miracle cure?
0:05.6	If you talk to an average person about vitamin D,
0:07.7	they're probably used to taking 600 IUs of vitamin D3,
0:12.4	sometimes up to 1,000, maybe 2,000.
0:14.9	But when you talk about 10,000 IUs,
0:16.8	some people actually freak out because 10,000 sounds like a very, very large number,
0:21.3	especially compared to something like vitamin B1, which the recommendations for that is like
0:26.9	1.2 milligrams. If you were to convert 10,000 international units of vitamin D3 into milligrams,
0:33.9	the number would only be 0.25 milligrams. That's only one-fourth of one milligram.
0:41.3	Today we're going to talk about why an average person should be taking 10,000 IUs of vitamin D3
0:47.0	as a maintenance dosage every single day. Vitamin D is the most important vitamin. Why? Because it controls 10% of all your genetics.
0:58.7	Over 90% of the population has less than 40 nanograms per milliliter of vitamin D3, which actually
1:05.7	is on the low side. The guidelines for 600 international units of vitamin D3 were based on preventing rickets.
1:15.1	They're based on supporting bone health and calcium in the blood.
1:19.6	They're not based on supporting everything else that vitamin D does.
1:23.5	Think about how many people are inside.
1:25.4	People don't go outside anymore.
1:27.3	And then you also have where you live. If you're living in a northern part of the world, it's very difficult to get vitamin D3. I want to explain something called the shadow rule. If you're outside and your shadow is longer than you are tall, you are not getting any vitamin D just because of the angle where the
1:46.4	sun is to the earth. You also can't get vitamin D through glass. So when you're driving your car
1:50.7	and you're getting the sun through the glass, you're not getting any UV that's creating
1:55.0	vitamin D. The darker your skin, the less vitamin D you're going to absorb. Dark skin individuals need 10 times more
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