It’s Time to Say “Goodbye” to Vitamin D2 - 2015

ClinCalc

Responses to a single dose of 50,000 IU of D3 or D2

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Vitamin D3 instead of D2 category in Vitamin D Life starts with

Some of the 103 items

• Overview Vitamin D3 not D2
• Physicians Desk Reference still only lists D2, but not Vitamin D3 – Feb 2022
• Vitamin D3 better than D2, especially if non-daily or high dose - meta-analysis Sept 2021
• It’s Time to Say “Goodbye” to Vitamin D2 - 2015
• Vitamin D2 decreases levels of D3 (again) and visa versa – RCT Jan 2019
• It’s (way past) time to stop prescribing with Vitamin D2 (ergocalciferol) – Oct 2018
• If you have a vitamin D prescription, be sure that it is for D3– June 2017
• Vitamin D reduces risk of cause specific death, unless it is D2 – meta-analysis BMJ April 2014
• Vitamin D2 should not be used as a Vitamin supplement for any mammal – Oct 2006
• Loading dose of Vitamin D2 REDUCED vitamin D blood in a third of the patients – Jan 2015