Bottle-fed babies don’t fare any better. In order to hit that 400-unit mark, an infant would have to imbibe 32 ounces of fortified formula a day, an amount that tummies under 6-months-old just can’t handle.
400 IU per day is the bare minimum for preventing rickets and is not enough to help anyone's immune system. Jett did get 8 drops a day (3,200 IU) or 4 drops, plus sun exposure, at least 10 minutes (with his fair skin, that's sufficient). But after getting his blood test results -- he's at 127 for Vitamin D -- too high, so I'm now giving him 4 drops to keep him closer to 100.
These are Vit D levels, according to this chart http://www.vitamind3-
Table of 25(OH)D Blood levels
Vitamin D Levels ng/ml nmol/L
Severely Deficient 0-10 0-25
Deficient 11-20 26-50
Low-normal 21-32 51-81
Normal 33-49 82-124
Optimum 60-80
High, but not toxic 66-100 164-250
Toxicity possible above 100 above 250
Dr. Amen's recommendation for vitamin D levels
Dr. Amen would recommend optimizing vitamin D levels. "Low levels of vitamin D have been associated with physical maladies like rickets, bone disorders or heart disease, but it's also an important factor in brain imbalances like depression and memory issues," he explains. "If I hope to get my patients stable, vitamin D is something I need to make sure is tested and regulated through supplementation as and when necessary." Amen believes typical recommended levels of vitamin D are too low. "The normal range in lab tests is less than what I've found to be ideal in terms of benefits," he says. "I like to keep vitamin D levels in my patients between 50 and 100 nanograms per milliliter."
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Dr. Lawrence Leichtman, Pediatrician & Clinical Geneticist recommends 2,000 mg/day for all people with DS regardless of age.
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Here are 5 short videos below about Vitamin D and sleep. The presenter is a neurologist from Texas.
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Cheese/butter from grass fed cows are very rich in K2.
K2 is heat resistant so pasteurized grass fed cheese still has K2.
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https://realmilk.comwww.
Vitamin K2 is the substance that makes the vitamin A- and vitamin D-dependent proteins come to life.
Price showed Activator X to exhibit dramatic synergy with vitamins A and D. Chickens voluntarily consumed more butter and died more slowly on a deficiency diet when the butter was high in both vitamin A and Activator X than when it was high in vitamin A alone. Cod liver oil, which is high in both vitamins A and D, partially corrected growth retardation and weak legs in turkeys fed a deficiency diet, but the combination of cod liver oil and high-Activator X butter was twice as effective. Likewise, Price found that the combination of cod liver oil and a high-Activator X butter oil concentrate was more effective than cod liver oil alone in treating his patients for dental caries and other signs of physical degeneration.
Vitamin K2 is the substance that makes the vitamin A- and vitamin D-dependent proteins come to life. While vitamins A and D act as signaling molecules, telling cells to make certain proteins, vitamin K2 activates these proteins by conferring upon them the physical ability to bind calcium. In some cases these proteins directly coordinate the movement or organization of calcium themselves; in other cases the calcium acts as a glue to hold the protein in a certain shape.33 In all such cases, the proteins are only functional once they have been activated by vitamin K.
Osteocalcin, for example, is a protein responsible for organizing the deposition of calcium and phosphorus salts in bones and teeth. Cells only produce this protein in the presence of both vitamins A and D;34 it will only accumulate in the extracellular matrix and facilitate the deposition of calcium salts, however, once it has been activated by vitamin K2.35 Vitamins A and D regulate the expression of matrix Gla protein (MGP),36,37 which is responsible for mineralizing bone and protecting the arteries from calcification; like osteocalcin, however, MGP can only fulfill its function once it has been activated by vitamin K2.33 While vitamins A and D contribute to growth by stimulating growth factors and promoting the absorption of minerals, vitamin K2 makes its own essential contribution to growth by preventing the premature calcification of the cartilaginous growth zones of bones.38
Vitamin K2 may also be required for the safety of vitamin D. The anorexia, lethargy, growth retardation, bone resorption, and soft tissue calcification that animals fed toxic doses of vitamin D exhibit bear a striking resemblance to the symptoms of deficiencies in vitamin K or vitamin K-dependent proteins. Warfarin, which inhibits the recycling of vitamin K, enhances vitamin D toxicity and exerts a similar type of toxicity itself. Similarly, the same compounds that inhibit the toxicity of Warfarin also inhibit the toxicity of vitamin D. I have therefore hypothesized elsewhere that vitamin D toxicity is actually a relative deficiency of vitamin K2.39 The synergy with which vitamin K2 interacts with vitamins A and D is exactly the type of synergy that Price attributed to Activator X.
Sources
http://blogs.babble.com/strollerderby/2010/03/23/study-babies-need-more-vitamin-d/
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