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- Overview Vitamin D3 not D2
- Physicians Desk Reference still only lists D2, but not Vitamin D3 – Sept 2025
- 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
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- Vitamin D2 is still often prescribed, even though a decade of studies have found it to be inferior to D3 - Sept 2025
- Health insurance companies often pay for vitamin D2, but not D3 - Sept 2025
- Vitamin D2 lowers the levels of Vitamin D3 in the blood - meta-analysis Sept 2025
- Vitamin D3 substantially reduced lumbar degenerative disease - Aug 2025
- Vitamin D3 is 40% better than D2 if normal weight, no difference if overweight –Meta-analysis October 2023
- Vitamin D3 better than D2, especially if non-daily or high dose - meta-analysis Sept 2021
- Physicians Desk Reference still only lists D2, but not Vitamin D3 – Sept 2025
- D3 far better than D2 at increasing Vitamin D levels (NCAA in this case), Jan 2021
- It’s Time to Say “Goodbye” to Vitamin D2 - 2015
- 100,000 IU of Vitamin D3 monthly for 4 months to diabetics (D2 bombed) – RCT Dec 2019
- Rheumatoid Arthritis sometimes helped by very high dose vitamin D2 – 1935
- Vitamin D2 decreases levels of D3 (again) and visa versa – RCT Jan 2019
- India wants to cure Vitamin D Deficiency, unfortunately by fortifying with D2 not D3 – Jan 2019
- Doctor prescribed 200,000 IU Vitamin D2 weekly during pregnancy (wrong type, far too much) – Jan 2019
- It’s (way past) time to stop prescribing with Vitamin D2 (ergocalciferol) – Oct 2018
- Vitamin D2 should not be used as a Vitamin supplement for any mammal – Oct 2006
- Vitamin D2 and Calcipotriol (psoriasis drug) increase Vitamin D3 getting to cells – June 2018
- If you have a vitamin D prescription, be sure that it is for D3– June 2017
- Nurses still wondering when to use Vitamin D2 (vets decided a decade ago to not use D2 on any mammals) – April 2017
- Vitamin D2 improved sexual hormones, erectile function etc – Jan 2017
- Caution When Prescribing High Dose Vitamin D (100,000 IU D2 daily for is too much after 4 years) – Nov 2016
- Muscle Strength improved 1.4 to 19 percent by vitamin D3 (not D2) – systematic review June 2016
- Loading dose of Vitamin D2 REDUCED vitamin D blood in a third of the patients – Jan 2015
- Vitamin D3 levels decreased by consumption of UV mushrooms – meta-analysis Feb 2016
- 50,000 IU of vitamin D weekly (D3 or D2) got two thirds of cystic fibrosis patients to 30 nanograms – RCT July 2015
- Vitamin D2 from cooked mushroom added virtually no vitamin D to bloodstream - RCT July 2015
- Large dose of vitamin D2 did not help (no surprise – avg 1700 IU daily) – April 2015
- Hemodialysis not helped by weekly vitamin D2 – RCT April 2015
- Following large doses of vitamin D2, Vitamin D3 doses were unable to achieve sufficiency – Jan 2014
- 600,000 IU of Vitamin D2 is rarely toxic in infants – Aug 2014
- Cooked mushrooms (Vitamin D2) did not increase vitamin D serum levels – Aug 2014
- Vitamin D2 from food – perhaps 80 IU daily – April 2014
- Vitamin D reduces risk of cause specific death, unless it is D2 – meta-analysis BMJ April 2014
- During brown bear hibernation Vitamin D3 decreases but D2 increases (surprise) – June 2011
- 372 types of vitamin D prescriptions in France, 200,000 IU was the most popular – Oct 2013
- 300,000 IU of vitamin D2 reduced inflammation markers (cytokines and chemokines) – Sept 2013
- Vitamin D3 increased and Vitamin D2 decreased the D3 serum levels – RCT Sept 2013
- Response to Vitamin D3 varied with rs4588, D2 less response than D3 and did not change – April 2013
- Vitamin D2 did not help Lupus (no surprise, D2 was given weekly) – June 2013
- Some Infants with 400 IU daily of Vitamin D2 actually decreased serum levels – Feb 2013
- D2 may reduce academic performance – Dec 2012
- Vitamin D3 instead of D2
- Prevention and Treatment of Vitamin D Deficiency – Nov 2012
- Vitamin D3 far better than D2 at raising infant vitamin D blood levels – Dec 2012
- Vitamin D3, not D2 helps childhood bone development – Dec 2012
- 7100 IU vitamin D2 for 3 months did not treat Coronary Artery Disease – Nov 2012
- Vitamin D2 again decreased vitamin D3 levels – RCT Nov 2012
- Alzheimer’s patients not on medication have very low levels of Vitamin D2 – Nov 2012
- Vitamin D3 far better than D2 for hemodialysis – Oct 2012
- Vitamin D deficiency somewhat treated with weekly 50000 IU Vitamin D2 – Sept 2012
- FDA raises the amount of vitamin D2 fortification in bread – Aug 2012
- Vitamin D2 half-life about 13 days – April 2012
- Vitamin D3 associated with fewer psychotic episodes, D2 with more – July 2012
- Vitamin D from mushroom or supplements decreased vitamin D3 in the body – June 2012
- Vitamin D3 is much better than D2, especially if not taken daily – meta-analysis June 2012
- Vitamin D2 DECREASED blood levels of Vitamin D3 by 12 ng – RCT July 2012
- Perhaps Vitamin D3 is better than D2 for Chronic Kidney Disease – May 2012
- Vitamin D3 much better than D2 for loading doses– meta-analysis May 2012
- Vitamin D review from Ireland - April 2012
- 600,000 IU of vitamin D2 every 4 months for decades in East Germany – 1987
- Vitamin D2 treatment reduced the Vitamin D3 blood test results by half – Feb 2012
- Very poor knowledge of vitamin D deficiency, even after diagnosis in Kuwait - March 2012
- Vitamin D3 and D2 had different associations – Jan 2012
- IBD less costly when treated with vitamin D3 compared to D2 – Jan 2012
- Fibromalgia reduced with 50,000 IU weekly vitamin D2 – Sept 2011
- Vitamin D3 but not D2 reduces mortality – meta-analysis July 2011
- Overview Vitamin D3 not D2
- Vitamin D3 for Vegans - many studies
- MS worse with Vitamin D2 - Oct 2011
- Chance of a fall decreased with vitamin D3 but increased with D2 – Oct 2011
- Primates Nutrient Requirements – 2003
- Vitamin D3 better than D2 – March 2011
- Graphs of diseases vs vitamin D levels - and D3 vs D2- April 2011
- Vitamin D2 loading doses did not increase, and may have decreased blood levels– June 2011
- 10 million IU of vitamin D3 for cows was great unless had vitamin D2 – July 2011
- Vitamin D2 patent granted to prevent hair loss during chemotherapy – 2002
- Mushroom vitamin D2 update – 200 to 1000 IU per 100 gram – June 2011
- Anorexia Nervosa not helped by a dose of 50000 IU of vitamin D2 – June 2011
- Paricalcitol better than vitamin D2 for Chronic Kidney disease – April 2011
- 50000 IU vitamin D2 weekly helped blacks with heart problems – Feb 2011
- Sarcoidosis – low on vitamin D3 but OK or high level of D2– Feb 2011
- Vitamin D2 decreased vitamin D3 levels in the blood – Feb 2011
- Can triple the vitamin D in carrots - Jan 2011
- Vitamin D3 Is 1.9X better than D2 – Dec 2010
- Vitamin D2 repletion – 50000 IU 3X per week is best – 2009
- Vitamin D2 intervention increased elderly muscle strength – Nov 2010
- IOM vitamin D Nov 30 - what then
- Why vitamin D might not help me
- TB not helped by 300000 IU Vitamin D2 – May 2009
- Prescription Vitamin D (D2) Not Suitable for Supplementation Say Researchers
- Average of less than 2000 IU of vitamin D2 did not help bone health – July 2010
- Vitamin D2 D3 and calcitriol – not much in the abstract June 2010
- GlutenDoctors on D3 better than D2 and problems with Vitamin A
- D3 better than D2 by VitaminDSurvivor (Pegram) July 2009
- D2 as good as D3 in Orange Juice April 2010
- 1700 IU per day of vit D2 was not enough to help dialysis
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