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I feel like I read this same article about six months ago.
My Doctor keeps pushing This .
Pretty comprehensive article.
I do D3 occasionally.
We work indoors. We live indoors. We mostly play indoors. We usually are wearing cloths. Fish isn’t the most common protein we consume.
I think it’s not hyperbole when vitamin D is stated as a common deficiency: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9573946/
We don’t run around naked outside all day anymore. Where are you supposed to get this from if you live/work/play indoors and wear cloths? Assuming you don’t wear sunblock or a hat, the face and neck (areas often exposed to the sun) account for a mere 5.5% of our skins surface area. To me, it’s no surprise that ~ 1 in 5 people are vitamin D deficient.
You can't manage what you don't measure. It took the medical establishment a long time to recognize Vitamin D supplements as beneficial or even measuring Vitamin D levels as worthwhile. In a lot of older docs there is still resistance or worse. Medicine is an awful lot of opinioneering really and a lot of docs are not even remotely current in knowledge. Veterinary nutritionists have demonstrated and known the benefit of D3 in confined poultry for a very long time.
I know that for me Vitamin D makes a difference especially in my working years when I was in an office most of the time. Natural Vitamin D generation requires continuous exposure to natural sunlight and we don't get it between the house, car and office most days.
Touch wood, at 70 I am still seldom sick and it does not linger long when I am sick. I pray it stays that way.
Everything you ever wanted to know about Vitamin D, but were afraid to ask!
Which Vitamin D are they talking about?
D1?
D2?
D3? (from sunshine)
D4?
Also vitamin d deficiency was linked heavily to severe covid problems.
I cut down my Vitamin D supplement from daily during Covid to about twice a week for the last year or so.
Exposure to sunlight only provides this when the UV index is high enough - during winter unless you are in the far south, you must to get it from other sources.
A very informative and interesting post. Thanks.
I take 1000 of D3 most days.
I think K2 is also important, but my diet has enough so I don’t supplement.
I think in future I might stop all supplements except magnesium (glycinate) and maybe a little zinc.
Wow...who knew?
So...how long should you stay in the sun for best results? Minutes? Hours?
Thank you.
Read later.
postmenopausal women who took 1,100 international units (IU) of vitamin D plus 1,400 to 1,500 milligrams of calcium per day reduced their risk of developing non-skin cancers by 77% after four years, compared with a placebo and the same dose of calcium. - https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/time-for-more-vitamin-d#:~:text=Except%20during%20the%20summer%20months,risk%20for%20vitamin%20D%20deficiency. (same source as image in post above)
It's disappointing that this is the only citation of the role of the gut for prevention of malnutrition.
Yes: If the gut is imbalanced (dysbiosis), you can suffer the effects of malnutrition despite healthy food intake AND supplements.
Most people wouldn't require any supplementation at all if they just had healthy a healthy gut, and only those in certain latitudes require any D supplementation (mostly seasonal) beyond Sun exposure.
True story: I realized the power of the Sun during my health recovery when I worked outside for a mere 20 minutes one Spring and experienced a burst of energy which lasted a full two weeks...something which has never been replicated by taking supplements, either before or since.
We take 4,000 IU daily with K2.