What if your Vitamin D blood levels are so low that you can't take
enough cod liver oil each day to bring them up very quickly?
Not exact matches
One of the rickets sufferers was offered
cod liver oil, which he took the occasional glug of, but the other four managed to get
enough vitamin D and calcium to cure their rickets through diet alone.
Many women find they do better from consuming
enough healthy fats and proteins in early pregnancy (magnesium aside) and Fermented
Cod Liver Oil is a great source of healthy fats.
Cod liver oil also has some D3, but it is not
enough if you are very deficient (only 1000 - 1500 IUs per serving), which is why I don't recommend it as a D3 supplement.
But even with 400IU daily, although this is the recommended daily value, most scientists warn that this level will not sustain adequate vitamin D levels in your body, and therefore, you will still need regular sunlight and additional vitamin D from the right food sources to make sure you get
enough D. Fatty fish, organ meats, egg yolks, and pork fat are reasonable sources of vitamin D, but
cod liver oil or other fish
liver oils are the highest in vitamin D.
She continued taking
cod liver oil and raw butter during the last month, but it was not
enough.
is that
enough and is that ok or should i just take regular
cod liver oil?
I will start consuming organic chicken
liver twice a week (as pate since is the only way I can eat it), would this be good
enough to balance the amount of omega - 6 fatty acid so I could start taking fermented
cod liver oil?
As a result people who already have
enough of these vitamins in their diet can actually contract diseases if they take excess vitamins through
cod liver oil.
It makes sense, then, that high - vitamin
cod liver oil should serve as a safe standalone supply of vitamin A even during the winter, while
liver from land animals should either be used during seasons where the supply of UV - B rays from the sun is rich
enough to guarantee adequate vitamin D, or in conjunction with vitamin D - rich foods such as lard from pastured pigs, oily fish, shellfish, and egg yolks from pastured chickens, all of which supply smaller but substantial amounts of vitamin D. (For a list of these and other food sources of vitamin D with specific concentrations listed, see Appendix 3.
I would recommend adding vitamin K2 (to control ectopic calcification) and
enough vitamin A (
liver, egg yolks; if you don't eat
liver, 1 tsp
cod liver oil) to the mix.