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wlfwp-210701-vitamin-D-calcium-and-mineral-metabolism — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview wlfwp-210701-vitamin-D-calcium-and-mineral-metabolism. The excerpt begins at 1:20:22 and runs for 1 minute 48 seconds.

interactive equivalence and the vitamin A and vitamin D do work together but there you would have to be in at an extreme desperately deficient condition before you'd see one creating a deficiency of the other okay so what you're saying is even though vitamin A is needed in the vitamin D metabolism it really wouldn't matter if you started supplementing even somewhat high dose of D it wouldn't throw off your other nutrients if the other ones weren't being supported at the same time unless you were extremely deficient in them yeah yeah and vitamin A and thyroid have a noticeable interaction so that if you're on if you're borderline for thyroid function and take a huge vitamin A supplement such as a hundred thousand units you will probably experience a dip in your thyroid activity because thyroid hormone and retinol travel on the same protein and so you'll simply displace one by too much of the other but that is noticeable only in extreme situations I see um I had a thought and then it left my brain so we'll go to the next question which is should people ever take a calcium supplement