Back from my Annual physical (warning: female content)

HurricaneElaine

Vicky the RN perused my recent bloodwork and told me my lipids were still high, esp. my LDL, and thankfully this time DIDN'T say "I want you to try a statin". She just told me to keep losing weight and have a new bloodwork done in three months so she can see downward progess.She's actually ecstatic about my weight loss! :bigsmile:

She also told me my vitamin D is still low. (I keep forgetting to take it) There's a bottle I keep in the fridge that I usually take 2000 IU from each morning. She told me to up it to 5000, and asked "why liquid, why not a pill"? I'd researched a little and found that in liquid form, vitamin D is absorbed more efficiently than capsule or pill form. She told me she never heard of that. What the heck, she's an RN!! How do I know this and she doesn't? *rolleyes*

HurricaneElaine

Ignore the "female content" part of the title. I edited it out. TMI.

sarafil

I'm confused...why is an RN telling you what medications to take? Do you mean she is a Nurse Practitioner? I work in the medical field and our MDs don't recommend Vitamin D in liquid form. Vitamin D3 molecules are virtually always in their solid form, or phase, when ingested into the human body, regardless of whether their "carrier" substance is a liquid, such as milk, or a solid, such as fish or a vitamin pill. Because the dosage of vitamin D3 being ingested is so small, the solid form of these dissolved microscopic particles is indistinguishable to humans. No evidence indicates choosing solid or liquid forms of vitamins has any effect on potency or bioavailability. Young children, or others who have trouble swallowing pills, might find liquid supplement drops of vitamin D3 a more convenient delivery vehicle than tablets or capsules.

HurricaneElaine

I'm sorry, I just googled Vicky, she's an NP, not an RN. My mistake.

The vitamin D - actually D3, as you posted - is in a suspension of sunflower seed oil.

I had read that it is more readily absorbed into the body when in liquid form. Is that incorrect?

sarafil

There is no evidence that vitamin D is more readily absorbed in liquid form. That being said, however, there is no harm in taking it in liquid form. But there is no medically proven advantage to taking it in liquid form....the makers of the liquid product, however, probably want you to believe there is.