How Not To Die With True High-Dose Vitamin D Therapy Quotes

“The truth is that vitamin D isn't an analgesic, it's a super hormone that stimulates our body to behave. This means that vitamin D doesn’t take your pain away after 30 minutes. It can take”
― Tiago Henriques, How Not To Die With True High-Dose Vitamin D Therapy: Coimbra’s Protocol and the Secrets of Safe High-Dose Vitamin D3 and Vitamin K2 Supplementation

“Keep testing your blood and urine every 2 months and adjust your doses accordingly. If the tests reveal your kidneys are working well and your calcium metabolism is within the reference range, the next step will be to look at your PTH levels: ·         If PTH levels are below the lowest reference value, you’ll need to reduce the vitamin D you are taking. ·         If PTH levels are at the lowest value, but still within the reference range, you’ll need to maintain the same dose of vitamin D you have been taking. ·         If PTH is within the reference range, but not yet at the lowest value, it’s time to increase vitamin D supplementation. This is, by far, the most common scenario. You may increase doses by 10,000 IU or by 20,000 IU, or more, depending on how far away from our goal you are.”
― Tiago Henriques, How Not To Die With True High-Dose Vitamin D Therapy: Coimbra’s Protocol and the Secrets of Safe High-Dose Vitamin D3 and Vitamin K2 Supplementation

“Four times a day: · 500 milligrams of DHA (a type of omega 3 fatty acid). · 5 milligrams of Zinc. · 120 milligrams of Choline. · 125-250 milligrams of Magnesium Chloride or Magnesium Glycinate. · 50 to 100 mg milligrams of Riboflavin — Vitamin B2. · 1,000 to 5,000 micrograms of Vitamin B12. · 500 micrograms of Folic Acid. · 150 micrograms of Chromium Picolinate. · 50 to 100 micrograms of Selenium. Once per day, optionally: · 100 micrograms of CoQ10.”
― Tiago Henriques, How Not To Die With True High-Dose Vitamin D Therapy: Coimbra’s Protocol and the Secrets of Safe High-Dose Vitamin D3 and Vitamin K2 Supplementation

“The recommended dose is of at least 100 micrograms of vitamin K2 per 10,000 IU of vitamin D. In addition, high doses of vitamin D promote processes within the body that make extensive use of other nutrients, notably magnesium. Therefore, supplement your body with magnesium.”
― Tiago Henriques, How Not To Die With True High-Dose Vitamin D Therapy: Coimbra’s Protocol and the Secrets of Safe High-Dose Vitamin D3 and Vitamin K2 Supplementation

“the following tests used by Dr. Coimbra during the protocol — presented here with some minor modifications:[45] 1. Vitamin B12 2. Calcitriol 3. Calcifediol 4. PTH 5. Calcium (total and ionized) 6. Urea (BUN — Blood Urea Nitrogen) 7. Creatinine 8. Albumin 9. Ferritin 10. Chromium (serum) 11. Phosphate (serum) 12. Ammonia (serum) 13.  Complete amino acid profile 14. ALT 15. AST 16. TSH 17.  Serum alkaline phosphatase 18. Serum P1NP 19. Serum CTX 20.  Calcium in the urine of 24 hours (with total volume) 21.  Phosphate in the urine of 24 hours (with total volume) In addition to the calcium and phosphate blood tests, the following electrolytes could also be added: 22.  Ionogram (sodium, potassium, chloride, magnesium and bicarbonate)”
― Tiago Henriques, How Not To Die With True High-Dose Vitamin D Therapy: Coimbra’s Protocol and the Secrets of Safe High-Dose Vitamin D3 and Vitamin K2 Supplementation

“Maybe you have been taking a dose of vitamin D that you think is high enough, but if your PTH levels aren’t coming down this means you’re not taking enough vitamin D. If you aren't influencing the parathyroid, you can't be influencing the immune system.”
― Tiago Henriques, How Not To Die With True High-Dose Vitamin D Therapy: Coimbra’s Protocol and the Secrets of Safe High-Dose Vitamin D3 and Vitamin K2 Supplementation

“Step Two Test your limiting factors: (1) The kidneys and (2) the blood levels of PTH and (3) calcium. The basic tests for a protocol with doses higher than 10,000 IU involve testing the calcium in your urine to access your kidney function and testing your blood levels of PTH, calcium and vitamin D.”
― Tiago Henriques, How Not To Die With True High-Dose Vitamin D Therapy: Coimbra’s Protocol and the Secrets of Safe High-Dose Vitamin D3 and Vitamin K2 Supplementation

“from where it shouldn't be, protecting our arteries from calcium deposits and decreasing our chances of having a heart attack. What's more, it stimulates our bones and teeth to absorb calcium, thus offering vital help in preventing, and perhaps even in resolving, osteoporosis.”
― Tiago Henriques, How Not To Die With True High-Dose Vitamin D Therapy: Coimbra’s Protocol and the Secrets of Safe High-Dose Vitamin D3 and Vitamin K2 Supplementation

“Throughout the book, we have observed the effects of vitamin D on cardiovascular disease, cancer, autoimmune diseases, depression, diabetes, chronic pain and many other health issues. Even burns recover better with vitamin D.[175]”
― Tiago Henriques, How Not To Die With True High-Dose Vitamin D Therapy: Coimbra’s Protocol and the Secrets of Safe High-Dose Vitamin D3 and Vitamin K2 Supplementation

“There seems to be a link between vitamin D deficiency and fibromyalgia and chronic pain. In addition, in the case of the muscular and skeletal pain of autoimmune or inflammatory origin, vitamin D is the treatment of choice due to its rate of remission in the order of 95% obtained by the protocol of Dr. Coimbra in his clinical practice.”
― Tiago Henriques, How Not To Die With True High-Dose Vitamin D Therapy: Coimbra’s Protocol and the Secrets of Safe High-Dose Vitamin D3 and Vitamin K2 Supplementation

“The truth is that vitamin D isn't an analgesic, it's a super hormone that stimulates our body to behave. This means that vitamin D doesn’t take your pain away after 30 minutes. It can take days, weeks or months. But it will be worth it.”
― Tiago Henriques, How Not To Die With True High-Dose Vitamin D Therapy: Coimbra’s Protocol and the Secrets of Safe High-Dose Vitamin D3 and Vitamin K2 Supplementation

“In the case of type 2 diabetes, there seems to be a direct relationship between blood levels of vitamin D and the body's ability to deal with excess sugar. To put it in simple terms: The higher the levels of vitamin D in your blood, the lower your chances of developing type 2 diabetes.[154]”
― Tiago Henriques, How Not To Die With True High-Dose Vitamin D Therapy: Coimbra’s Protocol and the Secrets of Safe High-Dose Vitamin D3 and Vitamin K2 Supplementation

“For example, a study conducted in northern Finland collected data from more than 10,000 children. One of their findings was that children who took 2,000 IU of vitamin D during the first year of life had less than 80% chance of developing type 1 diabetes.[153]”
― Tiago Henriques, How Not To Die With True High-Dose Vitamin D Therapy: Coimbra’s Protocol and the Secrets of Safe High-Dose Vitamin D3 and Vitamin K2 Supplementation

“In real life, there are no superheroes with superpowers to defend us, but vitamin D and its faithful companion, vitamin K2, come close.”
― Tiago Henriques, How Not To Die With True High-Dose Vitamin D Therapy: Coimbra’s Protocol and the Secrets of Safe High-Dose Vitamin D3 and Vitamin K2 Supplementation

“In clinical studies, doses of vitamin D varied between 400 and 18,400 IU. The results observed showed that vitamin D had at least the same effect as antidepressants — without the side effects.”
― Tiago Henriques, How Not To Die With True High-Dose Vitamin D Therapy: Coimbra’s Protocol and the Secrets of Safe High-Dose Vitamin D3 and Vitamin K2 Supplementation

“for example, also contains vitamin K2. The major sources of this vitamin, however, are foods fermented by bacteria like Gouda cheese[103] and Natto, a traditional Japanese food made from fermented soybeans which is, perhaps, the largest natural source of vitamin K2.[104] When was the last time you saw someone eating Natto? Or worrying — and having the financial means — to feed regularly on meat, eggs and cheese from certified organic farms? No wonder then, that most of us are deficient in vitamin K2. Due to this, our body has a hard time moving calcium away from soft tissue and into bones and teeth — even despite its ability to convert some vitamin K1 into vitamin K2.”
― Tiago Henriques, How Not To Die With True High-Dose Vitamin D Therapy: Coimbra’s Protocol and the Secrets of Safe High-Dose Vitamin D3 and Vitamin K2 Supplementation

“Therefore, by joining vitamin K2 to our basic regimen of vitamin D, magnesium chloride and vitamin B2, we'll be doing a favor to our arteries, our kidneys and our bones. What a wonderful vitamin!”
― Tiago Henriques, How Not To Die With True High-Dose Vitamin D Therapy: Coimbra’s Protocol and the Secrets of Safe High-Dose Vitamin D3 and Vitamin K2 Supplementation

“Additionally, vitamin K2 attenuates the bone mineral loss promoted by vitamin D.”
― Tiago Henriques, How Not To Die With True High-Dose Vitamin D Therapy: Coimbra’s Protocol and the Secrets of Safe High-Dose Vitamin D3 and Vitamin K2 Supplementation

“Vitamin K2 is the key to understand why so many people supplement with calcium without success. Moreover, if you have osteoporosis and you aren’t taking vitamin K2, calcium supplements may even be harming you, because calcium will be more likely to end up being deposited in the wrong place. Of course, if you take high doses of vitamin D you don’t need to supplement with calcium since vitamin D is already helping your intestines in absorbing too much calcium.”
― Tiago Henriques, How Not To Die With True High-Dose Vitamin D Therapy: Coimbra’s Protocol and the Secrets of Safe High-Dose Vitamin D3 and Vitamin K2 Supplementation

“risk factors [for heart disease].” This means the more calcium you have accumulated in your coronary arteries, the greater your chances of some blood ending up clotting there, causing you to suffer a heart attack.”
― Tiago Henriques, How Not To Die With True High-Dose Vitamin D Therapy: Coimbra’s Protocol and the Secrets of Safe High-Dose Vitamin D3 and Vitamin K2 Supplementation

“Because, as stated in the introduction of this chapter: "the buildup of calcium in the arteries feeding the heart is one of the major”
― Tiago Henriques, How Not To Die With True High-Dose Vitamin D Therapy: Coimbra’s Protocol and the Secrets of Safe High-Dose Vitamin D3 and Vitamin K2 Supplementation

“We now understand how vitamin K2 directly relates to cardiovascular disease. Vitamin K2 helps in removing calcium deposits from arteries. Why is this so significant?”
― Tiago Henriques, How Not To Die With True High-Dose Vitamin D Therapy: Coimbra’s Protocol and the Secrets of Safe High-Dose Vitamin D3 and Vitamin K2 Supplementation

“Now, our goal is to move calcium away from certain places — the wrong places. How can we do this? Oh, if only there was a molecule capable of moving calcium away from soft tissue! A molecule that, simultaneously, helped calcium to go to where it’s needed. Well, we know that this molecule exists, don’t we? It’s called vitamin K2.”
― Tiago Henriques, How Not To Die With True High-Dose Vitamin D Therapy: Coimbra’s Protocol and the Secrets of Safe High-Dose Vitamin D3 and Vitamin K2 Supplementation

“However, to give our body all the calcium it needs, eating calcium-rich foods may not be enough. Why? Because when calcium reaches the intestine it will only be absorbed in large quantities if there's enough vitamin D available.”
― Tiago Henriques, How Not To Die With True High-Dose Vitamin D Therapy: Coimbra’s Protocol and the Secrets of Safe High-Dose Vitamin D3 and Vitamin K2 Supplementation

“B.    A hormone is a molecule the body uses to send messages to its cells.”
― Tiago Henriques, How Not To Die With True High-Dose Vitamin D Therapy: Coimbra’s Protocol and the Secrets of Safe High-Dose Vitamin D3 and Vitamin K2 Supplementation