{"id":19996,"date":"2022-06-22T10:58:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T10:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=19996"},"modified":"2022-06-22T10:58:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T10:58:39","slug":"do-i-need-to-take-a-vitamin-d-supplement-in-a-hot-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/19996","title":{"rendered":"Do I need to take  a Vitamin D supplement in a hot country?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, how are you?<\/p>\n<p>While in Cyprus you should be in enough sunlight that no supplement is needed. 10 minutes daily is adequate to maintain your required vitamin D3 level.<\/p>\n<p>If you do choose to take a supplement, take nothing more than 4000 IU. This is because it can be harmful &#8211; you cannot get too much vitamin D3 from sunlight. Taking 2500 IU will be sufficient.<\/p>\n<p>What do you currently take in the UK?<\/p>\n<p>Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going away to Cyprus for 4-5 months and it will be scorching hot out there. Is it best to take 2500 IU or 5000 IU of vitamin D3 (from a reputable supplement brand I have been taking for years). I&#8217;m on Biktarvy and I know for a fact that vitamin D3 is very important because of tenofovir and bone loss. What strength is more adequate daily? If i&#8217;m going to be in a hot country?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,38,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-side-effects","category-supplements-and-herbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}