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i have lived most of my life playing as a kid and working as an adult outside, outside right now, even. i have to take supplements. you don't actually get much vit d from sunlight, the vast majority comes from your diet and some people like me need more from supplements no matter what you eat. and yes the supplements (10k to 15k iu a day for a few months) got my levels up.
apparently it takes a while (weeks to months) for the level in your system to build up and takes a while for it to deplete so once my blood test numbers got back to normal i stopped and now i just take that amount a day for a few weeks a couple times a year when i notice i've been sluggish and more moody lately. and yes this was all prescribed and explained by my doctor a few years ago. the ld50 (lethal dose for 50% of pop) is 50k iu a day for over 6 months, and you get kidney stones as warning signs long before then, so as long as you stay below like 20k to 25k a day and don't do it for long term, it's pretty safe to take a higher doses like that.
also regarding your lower comment saying none work for you, you might have just not been taking a high enough dose like me. at first doc prescibed 5k iu daily but 3 months later my levels were still too low so they explained all that above. also some brands do seem to be garbage. i don't wanna say a brand but of the ones i've tried any dissolvable white compressed powder ones are garbage and taste awful and the gel cap style ones work and don't taste like anything. you might also should look up specific foods with higher vit d content and eat more of those, but i tried that in those first 3 months with the supplements and it didn't seem to make much of a difference.