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Originally Posted by Azure
My problem with 'doctor recommended' is that doctors can sometimes be a few years behind when it comes to certain things. Example, Vitamin D intake. Almost all research is showing that most people in Canada have a deficiency, and that supplementation of up to 4,000 IUs per day is needed in order to get optimal blood levels. My family doctor is still recommending nothing more than 1,000 IU per day.
Not that hard to go read some recent research and put what they taught you in med school on the back burner as things tend to change.
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Did you actually read and critically assess some of the original papers and come to this conclusion, or are you just regurgitating what some biased website is telling you? I suspect it's the latter, and this is a prime example how all this holistic/alternative BS gets propagated.
In the absence of official consensus guidelines published by actual experts critically appraising the evidence, what you are proposing is NOT the standard of care. It has nothing to do with "being behind", but everything to do with being safe and efficacious based on what we know. At your proposed doses maybe you're right, maybe you're wrong, maybe it doesn't matter, maybe its a waste of your money, or maybe it's the next thalidomide.