Pages tagged with "Better than daily"

• Very preterm birth: start treatment with Vitamin D (400 IU/kg/day)
• Poor adherence to taking Vitamin D daily (Adult ADHD in this case)
• Nursing home residents with fewer falls had weekly, not daily Vitamin D - June 2026
• Many symptoms vanquished by Vitamin D (50,000 IU weekly)
• Weekly Vitamin D better than daily – lower cost, less pill burden, perhaps 1.5X better response – meta-analysis
• Children had a better response to Vitamin D given every 2 weeks than daily – RCT
• Weekly, Monthly Vitamin D are typically better than daily - many studies
• Monthly vitamin D dosing better for children than daily (again)
• Cancers reduced after 2 years of 2000 IU Vitamin D daily (2nd RCT) – RCT Aug
• Vitamin D given daily, weekly, or monthly has similar response (116 RCTs) – meta-analysis
• Vitamin D response independent of dosing interval – meta-analysis
• Depression is especially reduced by large intermittent doses of vitamin D – meta-analysis
• Vitamin D treatment of Chronic Kidney Disease: monthly better than daily – RCT
• Vitamin D: Bolus is Bogus (if more than 17 days between oral doses)
• Vitamin D loading dose was as effective as daily dosing (rickets in this case) – RCT
• 50,000 IU of Vitamin D once every 2 weeks achieved 40 ng in 3 months – RCT
• Stoss (loading) dose of vitamin D resulted in bigger response at 30 days (again) – RCT
• 44 percent of successful RCTs in VitaminDWiki used non-daily dosing
• Diabetic inflammation reduced by Vitamin D (30,000 IU weekly) – RCT
• IBS diarrhea treated by weekly 50,000 IU of Vitamin D – RCT