Speculation – Weekly vitamin D dose will be better than daily if poor Receptor

By VitaminDWiki

Unaware of any trials which support this speculation as of Sept 2017

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Fact Vitamin D Receptors restrict how much activated blood vitamin D actually gets to cells
Observation Omega-3 given to rats weekly resulted in more Omega-3 in blood than when given daily
Observation Increasing a daily dose of vitamin Dincreases the cellular vitamin D even if poor vitamin D receptor. Receptor limits, but does not entirely block
Speculation Giving weekly dose should further increase the cellular vitamin D (nonlinear) **

Graphical summary of speculation: blood level activated vitamin D ==> cell level

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Vitamin D Receptor category in VitaminDWiki has the following

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