Does Vitamin D Increase Or Decrease The Need For Calcium?

[TheSir]

It feels like every time I try to take D I start getting muscle twitches and heart palpitations, which I have usually associated with low calcium.

 

[baccheion]

Could be low magnesium/potassium.

Vitamin D increases need for calcium and absorption of calcium. The extra amount absorbed isn't as profound as most think, but more is held in serum. Vitamin K(2 MK-4) and magnesium then balance out increased calcium.

 

[dreamcatcher]

Vitamin D is needed for calcium absorption. In hypothyroidism, vitamin D is used up rapidly.

 

[Dr. B]

Vitamin D is needed for calcium absorption. In hypothyroidism, vitamin D is used up rapidly.

why is this? does that mean hypothyroidism has excess vitamin K2 and A, or are all of them used rapidly?

 

[dreamcatcher]

@Dr. B you might like this:

Vitamin D: Bioenergetic Wunderkind or Arbiter of Doom?

"What could be more important to understand than biological energy? Thought, growth, movement, every philosophical and practical issue involves the nature of biological energy." — Raymond Peat

dannyroddy.substack.com

 

[BearWithMe]

Vitamin D increase the need for calcium if you are calcium deficient, but decrease the need for calcim when you are calcim replete.

Either way, it is beneficial.

 

[Dr. B]

Vitamin D increase the need for calcium if you are calcium deficient, but decrease the need for calcim when you are calcim replete.

Either way, it is beneficial.

how does it have both those effects?