We look into false claims about vitamin D made in a social media video. Vitamin D3 is made in our skin, and is a safe and effective medicine at normal doses. The fact that massive doses can be used as “rat poison” doesn’t mean it’s generally dangerous.
in winter, and people need to either get enough from their diet, or supplement, to maintain healthy levels.which describes it as “a type of vitamin D that is made by the skin when exposed to sunlight”—but the narrator does not highlight this.
Instead, he moves further down the article beyond the information about safe and effective doses of the vitamin to the “Use as rodenticide” section. This begins with the sentence “Rodents are somewhat more susceptible to high doses than other species and cholecalciferol has been used in poison bait for the control of these pests”.
Later he goes on to claim “They’re calling rat poison a vitamin” and then near the end of the video that “Cholecalciferol is specifically designed to kill by producing hypercalcaemia [high calcium levels in the blood]”.
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