Should I take Vitamin D or Cod Fish Tablets?!


Question: I heard that taking both is bad, because I've been taking both for a while and I am now worried :S


Answers: I heard that taking both is bad, because I've been taking both for a while and I am now worried :S

If you are out in the sun often, then your body naturally will make enough Vitamin D for you. Also, most dairy products and fish have Vitamin D. Although a lack of it can be very bad, you don't really need that much of it to ward off problems like osteoparosis.

Problems with too much Vitamin D often have to do with the body absorbing too much calcium (both found in fortified milk, which I have drank lots of my whole life), and the body ends up storing the extra calcium as deposits in the body (heart, lungs, kidneys, etc.). So I guess the key is to not over do it. Unless you don't get any D from sun or dairy/fish, then don't take any extra (or take very little like in a daily vitamin).

Now the tablets I assume are some sort of cod liver oil derivitive, which is another way of getting Vitamin D, so if you are taking the cod tablets, you DON'T need to also take more Vitamin D, since you get plenty from the tablet.

Cod liver oil is a great source of omega3 along w/Vit A & D. But once again, it is not taken today as much as years ago since there are much more vitamins and minerals in our foods than they had two or three generations ago.

I'd keep taking the cod pill as a supplement, but no other Vitamin D, especially in the summer.

it is fine to take both nothing will happen. its a thing ppl often thing tht taking both is bad


i am sure with my answer but u should get a doctors opinion

Cod liver oil has 1,360 IU of Vitamin D in one tablespoon which is more than 3 times the RDA. So if you are taking in a tablespoon of Cod liver oil per day you don't need to further supplement with Vitamin D tablets. Vitamin D is a fat soluble substance so it can build up and become toxic. Here are the side affects and warning signs:

Vitamin D toxicity can cause nausea, vomiting, poor appetite, constipation, weakness, and weight loss . It can also raise blood levels of calcium, causing mental status changes such as confusion. High blood levels of calcium also can cause heart rhythm abnormalities. Calcinosis, the deposition of calcium and phosphate in the body's soft tissues such as the kidney, can also be caused by vitamin D toxicity.

Sun exposure is unlikely to result in vitamin D toxicity. Diet is also unlikely to cause vitamin D toxicity, unless large amounts of cod liver oil are consumed. Vitamin D toxicity is much more likely to occur from high intakes of vitamin D in supplements. The Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine has set the tolerable upper intake level (UL) for vitamin D at 25



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