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What is the difference between natural vitamin d and synthetic vitamin d pills?
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∙ 15y ago
Your question depends upon what kind of natural vitamin D you are talking about and what kind of vitamin D pills you are talking about.
There are two kinds of natural Vitamin D.
1)Sunshine is the best and most efficient way to get your Vitamin D. If you are fair skinned, you can make up to 20,000 IU of Vitamin D in one half hour of full body exposure. A feedback loop prevents you from EVER overdosing on Vitamin D from sunshine.
2) Natural Vitamin D is present in only a few foods - fatty fish and sun exposed mushrooms being the only real significant sources. There is no real difference between natural food source vitamin D and synthetic pills. The only difference is that it would be next to impossible to overdose on food sourced vitamin D.
The answer to the question of synthetic Vitamin D pills, is that there are 2 kinds. Vitamin D2 is the most common kind, and the only kind found in prescription Vitamin D pills and shots. Some researchers claim that Vitamin D2 should not be used for supplementation or enrichment of foods due to its decreased potentcy.
Vitamin D3 is less common in supplements, but is absorbed much better and has a longer half-life, making it the clear winner for human supplementation
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