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In Canada at least anything over 1,000 IU in a pill needs to be prescribed (at which point I think it is an injection but I might be wrong). You’ll never find larger for sale.



That's interesting, I just had a look at my local amazon in Germany and even 50k IU caps are easily available for a few euros.

https://www.amazon.de/dp/B01H3U5ZVI/


Apparently that‘s allowed as long as they specify an RDA of no more than 1.000 IU per day (averaged) on the packaging.


In the US, was looking a week or two ago, I remember seeing 2000 IU pills available over the counter, and I think I saw 3000 IU as well (can't remember that one for sure though).


I have 5000 IU pills, OTC.


You can find the liquid version though, it would make more sense than 130 pills if you were somehow convinced that was a normal dose.




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