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Will vitamin D save my life? Should I really be taking four times the recommended daily dose?
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Dear lybrate user, vit d is prescribed for people with bone ailments (to promote bone mineralisation, rickets etc). It's not mandatory or promote life expectancy by taking more vitamin d. So don't take excessive tablet s unnecessarily.
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Hi vitamin d is important for all mostly women, pregnancy, lactation, old age etc more required. For you take normally by foods like dairy products, organic protien based foods, egg, milk, fish, stem based vegetables, fibre rich all cereals, banana, curd etc.
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