Vitamin D Toxicity

Vitamin D is critical for health. It is needed to help your body absorb calcium and necessary for your bones to be strong. Inadequate vitamin D levels can contribute to many health problems including cancers, autoimmune disease, low immunity, and depression. 

While the ideal would be to get your vitamin D from your foods and from sunshine (your body uses sunlight to make vitamin D), this is not always possible. In this case, a vitamin D supplement is often taken, and generally with good results.

However, because vitamin D supplements are fat soluble, your body stores up what it is not using. Over time your vitamin D levels can become too high, which can be as serious as levels that are too low.

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