Just got over som etype of flu. It hit m saturday and full blown by late sunday. Felt somewhat better yesterday and much better today. I have been taking Vit D (1000 IU a day). Maybe that helped.
That's about where I was when I had my first test. I took 10,00 IU for a while and then 50,000 once a day for a while. It didn't take long to bring it up...a month or two.
Well, I watched the video twice and checked out several links at the Grassroots site, but couldn't find any information about a conflict between vitamins A and D.
There was something by Dr Cannell at vitamindcoucil.org about vit A and D needed in balance, and cod liver oil was not in balance, so the best way was to get vit A from carotenoids and D from D3 and they will combine properly in your body.
Well, I agree that they over-do it, but my naturopathic doctor told me to lower my vitamin D3 to 5,000 IU from the 10,000 IU I had been taking because blood tests showed that my phosphorus was elevated. He thought the high D3 was causing phosphorus to be leached from my bones. Before I started taking vitamin D, over a period of several years, I had lost over 2 inches in height, and I'm fairly sure I have osteoporosis. So I can't afford to take a chance on more bone damage. There's no proof that the vitamin D was causing that, but I will test again soon and see if there's a difference. I also wasn't taking vitamin A before, and now I am. I had taken 50,000 IU vitamin D3 off and on previously also.
And by the way, I never have taken tylenol. I knew a young woman that got addicted to it about 30 years ago and heeded the warning.
If you are a native in the tropics you generate around 120,000 IU of Vitamin a day, or around 17,000 IU's a day. But then again it is generated naturally whereas we are taking supplements. My Naturopath tried to get me to take 50,000 a week and I balked. But I am good for 3,000 a day.
And we all need to remember, we are individuals with individual idiosyncrasies in genetics and day to day biology. We don't have the genes of a tropical indigous (woops, can't spell that one and neither can the spell checker) natives, nor do we eat the same things. We are notoriously deficient in vitamins.
So, if it looks like you get a reaction to high levels of Vitamin D, listen to your body.
In reading over where you quoted me Jay, it sounded as though I was blaming the two inch loss in height to high-dose vitamin D leaching my bones....no, that damage was done long before I discovered vitamin D3.
Most of my 66 years has been spent in SW Washington state where it rains a good share of the time and on the Pacific coast even warm days are sometimes cloudy. I definately have a need to take vitamin D. I was about 24, low on the normal range, and got up to around 110 I believe, offhand, when I took 50,000 IU. Then I backed down. I believe, because of inflammatory medical problems that I need at least 5,000 IU, but once in a while I still take a 50,000 boost for a day or two. I'm due to be tested again soon.
My Naturopath tried to get me to take 50,000 a week and I balked. But I am good for 3,000 a day.
50,000/7=7140iu/daily is about right for someone about 175lbs weight.
Always best to be on the safe side and it's impossible to reach toxic levels if you stay under 10,000iu/daily.
Still if you've had a 25(OH)D test showing you are at a good 55ng/ml 137.5nmol/l level at 3000iu then that's absolutely fine but living in the beautiful NE you will be the exception rather than the rule.
Well, I watched the video twice and checked out several links at the Grassroots site, but couldn't find any information about a conflict between vitamins A and D.
Vitamin A toxicity from The Vitamin D Council There is a repost to this on Weston Price website.
In one of Dr Garland's video's at grassrootshealth Dr. Garland's DINOMIT Model: Vitamin D for Cancer Prevention he mentions vitamin a and suggests that daily intake doesn't have to be that high 6000iu vitamin a is too high and 1000iu/d vitamin a is about right.
...that was supposed to have been 10,000 IU, not 10,00!! Took me long enough to see that, huh?! 
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