Zuleikaa,

is it important whether it is synthetic D3 or derived from food, like cod liver oil e.g?

D3 is the form made in the human body from the action of UVB on 7-dehydrocholesterol I know of no research that proves D3 from fish oil is better than D3 from lanolin.
I've been using lanolin derived vitamin D3 and I also regularly expose my own skin to UVB.


Vitamin D Supplement Doses and Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D in the Range Associated with Cancer Prevention This paper shows that in order to get most 97.5% of the population above 40ng/ml we need to be near the 10,000iu/daily mark. ( the amount your skin would naturally make if you lay naked outdoors in the midday sun for a few minutes)

You might be interested in this:

http://www.news-medical.net/news/20...IVF.aspx?page=2



Now if I could only get some sleep instead of reading this forum all night....

Here is something else I did when we were ttc the 2nd time. The first time we did get pregnant right away but then I had a missed m/c at 11 weeks and a d&c. The second time it took 12 months to get pregnant. About 3 months before finally getting a bfp I started taking vitex.

http://www.obgyn.net/displayarticle...les/dunne_vitex

For me it did help to regulate my cycles somewhat. At that point I had a few cycles going 50+ days. I think it is really only helpful for women who have issues with ovulating. I did take Vitex the first trimester as well, towards the end of the trimester I started taking one then skipping a day and so on until I stopped taking it.

Hope this is helpful for someone out there!

This is interesting:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2758018

http://www.oxfordjournals.org/eshre...epdf/dem019.pdf

http://www.news-medical.net/news/20...in-females.aspx

Now this is exactly opposite of all I have been told.

I'm into vit D3 experiment for a month now (7000 IU daily), and for some reason my basal temperature was low all month, no spike, which means no ovulation this month either . Felt also weak after about 10 days I started taking vit D.

I use fertility awareness methods, including daily charting , so the chart of this month is rather unusual for me, not to say, discouraging, as we try to conceive which is impossible without ovulation.

Zuleikaa, have you every experienced this with any of your 'patients', can this be regarded as transition/adjustment or...?

Do you feel when you ovulate? Did you see any change in discharge? Other than that ovarian cyst that was removed do you have any other fertility problems? I don't think this has to do with the vit D.

Hi Sondacop

Yep, i can see the approaching ovulation by changes in cervical fluid and the proof it did happen by the spike in temperature in luteal phase. Neither of these signs took place this month.

The removed cyst was of endometrial origin, so I most likely still have endometriosis. Yet doc said I should have no problems with conceiving (well-well), however this endo never affected my ovulation before. So the coincidence with the beginning of D experiment and chart changes made me bit alarmed. Probably this is just an anovulatory cycle happening a few times to each woman...

I will keep my charting next month and hopefully the fertility flows back.

I read Sally Fallon's nourishing traditions recently and repeatedly it was mentioned that traditional societies feed special diets to women of childbearing age. Those diets are higher in fat (vitamin A and vitamin D are fat soluble) and included a lot of eggs, both fish eggs and chicken eggs. Also a lot of liver and organ meat for women of childbearing age.

Anybody here skip periods when they have a whoosh weight loss? I'm mid-40s and just lost 14 lbs. in a month-and-a-half or so after a forever stall (usually have a really tough time losing weight). When I was young I was known to miss a period when losing. But two is kind of a lot ... hoping it's not menopause and just wondering if anything in particular kept your periods regular WHILE you were losing? (Enough good fats, etc.)