Thanks Dave it is as I said, all to do with dosage put in a nutshell so to speak, but it is good to have the figures and science laid out so now I will save this so if it ever comes up again, I have a great reference.....Dee
Sent from my iPad > On 6 Jan 2015, at 21:35, Dan Nave <bhangcha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > You wrote: "Another one I have been researching for 5 yrs is vit(hormone)d3. > According to the USDA website pill,capsule,liquid etc form can be a mouse > poison." > > As a health resacher, you may be interested in the following information: > > From <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodenticide> : > > Calciferols (vitamins D), cholecalciferol (vitamin D3) and ergocalciferol > (vitamin D2) are used as rodenticides. They are toxic to rodents for the same > reason they are important to humans: they affect calcium and phosphate > homeostasis in the body. Vitamins D are essential in minute quantities (few > IUs per kilogram body weight daily, only a fraction of a milligram), and like > most fat soluble vitamins, they are toxic in larger doses, causing > hypervitaminosis. If the poisoning is severe enough (that is, if the dose of > the toxin is high enough), it leads to death. > ************ > > From a conversation at <http://www.marshallprotocol.com/forum39/11446.html> : > > 40,000,000 IU / gram* 0.075% = 30,000 IU / gram of rodent killer > > 2-3 grams is sufficient to kill a mouse. > That is 75,000 IU is sufficient to kill a mouse. > > Humans and mice are not the same, but for comparison, > a mouse is said to weigh about 25 grams > and a person might weigh around 70 kilograms. > > If the dosage by weight is an appropriate measure for toxicity... > an equivalent amount for a human would be 2,100,000,000 IU. > *********** > > Let's say a 75 kg human instead. > > 75 kg / 25 gram = 3000 > > 75000 x 3000 = 150 000 000 IU > > Or to put it in more simple terms, 2 grams times 3000 = 6 kg of 0.075% D vit. > > = 4.5 gram of 100% D vit. > *********** >
