[sangram_149 (OP)]

Hi,
I have a question of my own.Really hope someone gives me an answer.
I recently had a 25(OH) Vitamin D3 test done.The report gave a reading of
22.62 ng/ml. It seems to fall in the normal range (11-70 ng/ml) according to the report.But I am not sure.
Can someone please tell me whether my levels are satisfactory.

PS : I am 24.

Thanks.

[iko]

Hi sangram_149,

welcome to this forum.
I think vitamin D 'normal' levels for proper human health are being revisited:

from: Resurrection of vitamin D deficiency and rickets.

...
Indeed 400–1,000 IU/d to maintain serum 25(OH)D levels between 30–50 ng/ml should be the goal, just as it is in adults. Infants and children have routinely received 400–2,000 IU vitamin D2 or vitamin D3/day for the first years of life without any reports of toxicity (23, 80, 105, 107). Typically, doses of more than 50,000 IU/d of vitamin D2 were found to cause toxicity (12–14).
...
J Clin Invest. 2006 Aug;116(:2062-72

you can actually read the whole scientific paper, it's free full-text!
From the Journal of Clinical Investigation 2006.

http://www.jci.org/cgi/content/full/116/8/2062#SEC12

Enjoy good Science, by Michael Holick (Boston-Mass.)

ikod [^]

[iko]

The "Vitamin D Tsunami" is definitely coming,
spinning out of the restricted scientific circuit.
Finally prof. Michael Holick is in the New England
Journal of Medicine...
and -as usual- lay press will follow pretty soon!

http://www.starstore.com/acatalog/iceberg-poster.jpg

"...rickets can be considered the tip of the vitamin D-deficiency iceberg.  In fact, vitamin D deficiency remains common in children and adults."

Michael F. Holick "Vitamin D Deficiency" N Eng J Med 2007;357:266-81.

July 19, 2007 splendid review article in 'Medical Progress'
Unfortunately this one is not available in free full-text...you may go to last year paper published in J Clin Invest for similar refreshing good news:

http://www.jci.org/cgi/content/full/116/8/2062

As far as this topic is concerned, optimal levels of vitamin D had been defined:

"...a level of 25-hydroxyvitamin D of 21 to 29 ng per milliliter (52 to 72 nmol per liter) can be considered to indicate a relative insufficiency of vitamin D, and a level of 30 ng per milliliter or greater can be considered to indicate sufficient vitamin D.   Vitamin D intoxication is observed when serum levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D are greater than 150 ng per milliliter (374 nmol per liter)."

Estimates of optimal vitamin D status.

Dawson-Hughes B, Heaney RP, Holick MF, Lips P, Meunier PJ, Vieth R.

Vitamin D has captured attention as an important determinant of bone health, but there is no common definition of optimal vitamin D status. Herein, we address the question: What is the optimal circulating level of 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] for the skeleton? The opinions of the authors on the minimum level of serum 25(OH)D that is optimal for fracture prevention varied between 50 and 80 nmol/l. However, for five of the six authors, the minimum desirable 25(OH)D concentration clusters between 70 and 80 nmol/l. The authors recognize that the average older man and woman will need intakes of at least 20 to 25 mcg (800 to 1,000 IU) per day of vitamin D(3 )to reach a serum 25(OH)D level of 75 nmol/l. Based on the available evidence, we believe that if older men and women maintain serum levels of 25(OH)D that are higher than the consensus median threshold of 75 nmol/l, they will be at lower risk of fracture.

Osteoporos Int. 2005 Jul;16(7):713-6.