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by SOLAR_FIELDS 1097 days ago
I’m indoors most of the time (previous skin cancer so I’m really careful about sun exposure these days) and I’ve been on 5000 IU daily for years and my levels show up basically perfect on the blood test every year
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"The average content of vitamin D 3 found in wild caught salmon was 988 ± 524 (mean ± SEM) IU of vitamin D 3 /3.5 oz which is a typical amount that is served for dinner (Table) In contrast, farmed salmon had approximately 25% of the vitamin D content present in the flesh of wild salmon"

And everyone knows that a fish meal that size doesn't satisfy all the way to bed time.

So you can imagine a hunter gatherer running around eating a ton of fish, berries etc. and how many IU's that would be