A private nutritionist recommended the man take the supplement.
After months of nausea and vomiting, a middle-age man in the United Kingdom finally learned the toxic cause of his health problems: too much vitamin D. His doctors found that an overzealous supplement regimen was to blame.
Under the regimen, the patient had been taking 150,000 international units of vitamin D daily — 250 times the 600 IU recommended by the Mayo Clinic. And he was ingesting more than 20 other supplements on top of that, including more than the recommended amount of omega-3, vitamin K2 and folate. High levels of serum creatine, a waste product that healthy kidneys remove from the body entirely, confirmed the patient's kidneys were affected.
However, there may be something else at play, according to Dr. Heather Tick, a clinical associate professor of family medicine and an endowed professor of integrative medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle, who was not involved with the case report."Everything he was on — it was a lot of stuff," she told Live Science. But"usually you need to be taking high doses of vitamin D for much longer, not just a month" to experience toxicity, Tick added.
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