Paul Saladino· MD
if you are choosing to supplement with vitamin d i would look for a level around 50 nanograms per ml of your 25 hydroxy vitamin d level
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if you are choosing to supplement with vitamin d i would look for a level around 50 nanograms per ml of your 25 hydroxy vitamin d level
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in the majority of people who are exposed to lots of sun they will end up around 50 nanograms per ml with their vitamin d and i think that's probably an optimal level for most humans
you want your vitamin d levels to be around 50 milligrams per ml however you get them there i would do it in the sun if you are in a place where you cannot get sun for much of the year either consider moving or i would consider a tanning bed
check your vitamin D 40 is probably the cut off
natural place to be is probably in the 30s to 40s just based on any time I can be out in the backyard shooting if I take my shirt off I figure I'm getting my vitamin D that way but again I know that's not practical for everybody not everybody lives in a Southern California climate not everybody has the pigment that I do which basically means I can't get a sunburn if I try I'm unburnable exactly yep so I have that luxury that I don't think everybody does
A good range is 40-60ng/ml.
Ideally, maintaining vitamin D levels between 30-60 ng/ml can help prevent deficiency and support optimal health.
Ideal level probably: 40-60ng/ml
A good range is 40-60 ng/ml.
best range to be is 40-60ng/ml.
50-60 ng/ml is a good range.
@scottybledsoe 30 ng/ml is considered adequate.
Aiming for a range of about 30–40 ng/mL is ideal for most
there is a sweet spot when it comes to vitamin D too much can almost be as bad as too little the optimum levels of vitamin D in serum are considered to be between 30 and 80 nanograms per milliliter
So if you're very deficient, you're still not gonna raise yourself up to a sufficient level, which is considered 30 nanograms per mil or above.
and if you have um between 30 and 60 nanograms per mil that's considered adequate
deficiency is considered at levels below 20 nanograms per milliliter sufficiency um is considered at levels between 30 and 60 and being inadequate is considered at levels below 30 nanograms per milliliter
avoiding deficiency and I do say that a lot because and where are you drawing the line is is 30 or 40 where you I say 30 I mean it it does depend on are you looking are you looking at what the endocrine society says uh is more of an adequate level or inadequate are you looking at deficiency where you're like literally like you know like your bones are like your bone health isn't you know good yeah so um but for me I I I want to know the same thing like I'm always kind of like hovering around 50 60 but I'm like should I be at 80 yeah you know and I don't know um so it's always like okay well air on the side of caution you know air on the side of caution certainly avoiding deficiency yeah
So getting a simple blood test is one of the best things you can do. Measure your 25 hydroxy vitamin D levels. This is the precursor to the active steroid hormone 125 hydroxy vitamin D. And you want to have your 25 hydroxy vitamin D levels between you know 30 to 60 nanogs per milliliter is a great I would say level to have your vitamin D levels. You don't really want to go above 80 nanogs per milliliter. Then you start getting into a pretty high range.
make sure you get to a sufficient level, which would be 30 nanogs per mill or more. I think the sweet spot that I've seen really is about 30 if you know if you're if you're playing it safe. I like 40 NOGS per milliliter to about 60 or 70. Even can go up to 80. Uh you don't want to go too high, but I mean that's a kind of a good sweet spot if you're getting between 40 to 80 nanogs per milliliter.