The latest RDAs of vitamin D increased to 600 IU for adults up to the age of 70 and 800 IU for adults older than 70, and the tolerable upper limit increased from 2, 000 to 4, 000 IU per day for adults.
The recent Institute of Medicine study recommends everyone age 1 to 70 take 600 international units (IU) per day of vitamin D and those over 71 take 800 IU. The institute recommends adolescents age 9 to 18 receive 1, 300 mg per day of elemental calcium.