I've been trying to make vitamin D work for several months because many of the issues I have (poor digestion, small appetite, being quick to fatigue, etc.) are things that Dr. Peat recommends vitamin D for, but I always ended up with mania/calcification symptoms after just a few days of supplementing, even at as low as 2,000 IU daily.
However, I recently decided to try cyproheptadine for the low appetite issue (and high 5ht in general), and I've noticed that it's allowing me to take much larger doses of vitamin D comfortably (I think I took 16,000-18,000 IU today). I think I am finally starting to be able to feel the benefits that vitamin D is supposed to have in terms of cognition, posture, bone/joint health, etc. without the manic, hypercalcemic side effects (which were present even when I took vit K).
I don't understand exactly what the cypro is doing, if it's just the fact that it lowers 5ht that's helping or if it's doing something more systemic, but the synergy between cypro and vit D seems very strong, just like the synergy between coffee and aspirin. It's like 1+1 becomes 3 instead of 2.
However, I recently decided to try cyproheptadine for the low appetite issue (and high 5ht in general), and I've noticed that it's allowing me to take much larger doses of vitamin D comfortably (I think I took 16,000-18,000 IU today). I think I am finally starting to be able to feel the benefits that vitamin D is supposed to have in terms of cognition, posture, bone/joint health, etc. without the manic, hypercalcemic side effects (which were present even when I took vit K).
I don't understand exactly what the cypro is doing, if it's just the fact that it lowers 5ht that's helping or if it's doing something more systemic, but the synergy between cypro and vit D seems very strong, just like the synergy between coffee and aspirin. It's like 1+1 becomes 3 instead of 2.
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