Posted on 10/09/2018 11:25:59 AM PDT by ETL
“My expert opinion: Eat calcium, and get plenty of sun exposure (to hell with the dermatologists). If you cannot get sun exposure take VitD3. “
You can get bottles of generic D3, in a 5,000 unit dose, for about a nickel a pill at Sam’s Club and Costco. D3 is D3 is D3 - don’t pay extra for a name brand, you’re just rewarding their marketing dept. Oh, and have the pill with a meal that has a lot of fat - it’ll absorb much better into your bloodstream.
Two days after Christmas, 2017. Spent Christmas in the hospital after a mild heart attack that the cardiologist told me did not damage my heart. Lifting weights is NOT and option for most heart attack patients. I was very lucky!!!
“Had a neighbor who was told to take a lot of calcium after recovering from a broken leg
Ended up with major heart surgery after his heart valves calcified.”
“Not much money to be made from generic Vit D3 over the counter.”
“Note that D3 produced in skin is not immediately bioavailable. In fact, if you shower every day then you’re probably washing your natural D3 down the drain, another reason for D3 supplement.”
One pill a week. I should have said 50,000 units...I can’t remember exactly. It was a prescription for around 8 weeks. Levels reached normal and I now take 5,000 IUs a day.
May I borrow that, please?
Meta studies are collections of other people’s studies. Semi BS.
Us older folk have one golden rule: Be very careful not to hurt yourself. It takes you out of the game if you damage a ligament, muscle or rotator cuff. If you are on the sideline injured, you cannot make progress. Start light and use reps to condition. Work up slowly.
When I got out of the hospital, my surgeon said lift no more than 10 lbs. Went back to see him at the end of January and he told me after Valentine’s day, I could lift 20 lbs. That is when I started working with two- 10-lb dumbbells. I had already been walking. There was a time or two later I felt the bones in my sternum shift. I immediately stopped and reduced weight.
My surgeon told me it would take about 3 months for my sternum to heal. Sure enough, it started feeling more stable by then, but I did not start trusting it with a little heavier weights until after 4 months, just to be safe. For fear of getting over-balanced with barbells, I did not pick up a barbell until 6 months after surgery. I was able to do crunches (without using my arms) by the end of February.
Got it. I have a cousin who has an AI disorder. I wonder if she’s had her VitD levels checked.
I will mention this to her. Appreciate the reply.
“rewarding their marketing dept.”
I use a lot of vitamins and supplements-and being just a working class person, I always want the best deal on stuff-I found several online vitamin/supplement companies that offer several brands-including house brands, complete nutrition labels and prices for comparison-way less expensive than driving my 4x4 to the nearest Walmart or Sam’s and paying more for the same item. I buy resistance bands, free weights and other stuff for my workouts online, too-delivered to my gate at 1/3 to 1/2 less than at a big box retailer-especially since I live 25 miles from the nearest big box-Walmart...
You’ve got a sale-thanks!
That particular “study” sounded like the author was writing in a foreign language they didn’t even speak—I guess that is why.
Vitamin D does affect our immune system. What I clumsily tried to say is that a deficiency in Vit D mimicked my autoimmune disorder symptoms. Still, I have read that sufficient levels of Vit D will protect you from catching influenza and help you in the fight against cancer.
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But how many have bones protruding from their limbs?
For the rest, staying away from the unsanitary conditions and poor advice found in hospitals is mandatory for long life.
My mother was a dietician and kitchen manager for a private “boutique” hospital that catered to the wealthy and powerful, and she made sure that nutrition was mission #1.
People did get healed there, and they didn’t do any surgery there either. Drug use was bare bones minimal partly due to the fact that many of the patients were there due to drug abuse. (legal drug abuse)
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“But how many have bones protruding from their limbs?
For the rest, staying away from the unsanitary conditions and poor advice found in hospitals is mandatory for long life.”
K2 redirects calcium deposition from soft tissue to bones.
Just more proof a PhD isn’t a measure of intelligence.
FAR more studies have conclusively proven the need for D3.
Yes you are correct. These researchers are morons. D3 assists the absorption of calcium into your system. K2 then pushes the calcium into your bones. You have to take the two in conjunction with each other. We take both together every day. The K2 helps keep calcium from building up in your arteries by pushing it into your bones.
I have never heard showering washes your D3 down the drain....hhhmmmm
Saved for more reading later.
You rock! You’re doing it right, Lady.
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