vitamins and your liver

[nohorn]

If one takes lots of Vitamin D, which I have to take because I live in the sub-arctic, and since it usually is created with the sun on your skin, it normally doesn't go thru your liver, is it hard on your liver to take care of, when you take the vitamin orally? Just wondering.

[Sqad]

Whether or not one lives in the sub-arctic, one should get enough Vit D from sunlight and food, without the need for supplements, which in any case contain only small amounts of VitaminD ........except perhaps Cod Liver Oil supplements.

You do not need large amounts of VitD

You liver will cope quite nicely with VitD by sunlight and by mouth, but if you "bung in" large doses of VitD supplements, it will protest.

[nohorn]

Thank you squad, for your insight. The only thing I have ever read which conflicts with what you say, is somewhere that I read that if you live anywhere North of Atlanta, GA, that you will not get enough Vitamin D, on a daily basis, due to cloudy weather, etc.

For example, where I live here now, it rained or what cloudy every day here since June 8th. Or in the winter we are socked in several days in a row. Almost like London?

I know of some doctors who are trying large amounts of Vitamin D. (10,000 units a week). Does seem to be too much. I take 4,000 units a day and have felt much better than I have since I moved here 30 years ago. I did not take supplementary D until just recently, could not figure why I felts so badly. I worked inside a building without windows., 8 yrs daily. Onward and forward.