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I’ve taken Vitamin D3 for just over 4 years. Started with less than 1ooo IU a day and as I read more about D3 I’ve gradually upped the dose to 5,000 but just recently went to 10,000 IU a day. Is this enough, I have no idea?
During this time I have had just 1 cough but it was very nasty. I have had no other colds, coughs, sore throats or flu since starting on D3.
How much is recommended for the average person or in my case a retired senior? I also take the juice of 1 small lime, with water, every morning, year-round.

Hello Don
Thanks for commenting. If you consider that a man sitting in the summer sun for 1/2 hour in a swimsuit can produce about 20,000 IU of d3.
Then you can understand that what the doctors tell you is a high dose is actually quite low. I think every adult should take at least 10,000 a day.
Another tip comes from Dr. Cannell of the Vitamin D council. He suggests at the first sign of a cold, one should take 50,000 IU of d3 per day for 3 days to knock it out quickly. My father and I once felt a cold coming on while traveling. It was just a hint of a cough but you could tell that it was just about to get into your head and get much worse. We both popped 50,000 a day for 3 days and boom! it never caught us. and he was in his 80’s at the time.

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