One Common Mistake That Will Foil Your Vitamin D Supplement Benefits – Mercola March 2018

Without Magnesium, Vitamin D Supplementation May Backfire

• “As many as 50 percent of Americans taking vitamin D supplements may not get significant benefit, as the vitamin D simply gets stored in its inactive form due to magnesium deficiency”
• Dr. Mercola also mentions the importance of increasing Vitamin K2 when increasing Vitamin D

Includes a review of

Role of Magnesium in Vitamin D Activation and Function
Which is in VitaminDWiki – see below

VitaminDWiki has long estimated that

• Achieving a good level of Magnesium will boost Vitamin D levels by about 30%
• About 1 in 300 people get pains in their body when increasing Vitamin D due to a lack of Magnesium

Magnesium is one of the many reasons for low response to Vitamin D

• Reasons for low response to vitamin D

Note also: Constipation sometimes occurs with High Vitamin D and low Magnesium