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		neuronic on May 29, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Vitamin D: the New Covid-19 Chloroquine? Doctors usually recommend 1k IU per day but this has been shown to be problematic. 8k-10k IU is much better. Spending a day on the beach will net you many 10ks of vitamin D (given full body exposure to the sun). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5541280/

stavros on May 29, 2020 [–]

Ah, okay, we usually spend threeish months on the beach, so we should be good.

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