Vitamin D Testing Challenges

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Numerous vitamin D testing challenges can prevent accurate results. Here’s what you need to know.

Timestamps
0:00 Why testing vitamin D is tricky
0:20 How much vitamin D should you have?
0:58 The two forms of vitamin D
1:40 Inactive to active vitamin D conversion process
2:50 Other causes of poor vitamin D conversion
3:58 Key takeaways

In this video, I’m going to talk to you about vitamin D testing challenges. Vitamin D can be tricky to measure in the body. There’s not yet an agreed-upon value for ideal vitamin D levels in your blood. The “recommended” amount of vitamin D in your blood can range from 16 mg/mL to 50 mg/mL.

The institute of medicine will tell you that you need around 600-800 IUs of vitamin D per day. However, The Endocrinology Society will say that you need 1,000-2,000 IUs a day.

As you can see, no one agrees on the ideal amount of vitamin D.

There are two forms of vitamin D:
• 25 hydroxyvitamin D (inactive)
• 1,25 dihydroxy vitamin D (active)

Most of the vitamin D in your blood is the inactive form. In fact, this is the kind of vitamin D that most people check.

The inactive form of vitamin D goes through the liver and to the kidney. The kidney is where the inactive form of vitamin D is converted into the active form.

But what if there’s damage to the kidneys? You lose your conversion capacity. This is a common problem for those with diabetes and insulin resistance.

I estimate that 65-75% of the entire population that insulin resistance. This is going to alter your ability to convert inactive vitamin D into active vitamin D.

Having “normal” levels of the inactive form of vitamin D does not mean you have healthy levels of the active form.

Polymorphism, low bile, malabsorption, and inflammation can also cause altered vitamin D conversion.

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Thanks for watching. I hope this video helped clear up the major challenges of vitamin D testing.