I’ve been taking vitamin D3 supplement and have not one cold all winter. Every winter I get one or two at least and I do a lot of travel by planes. I hear Vit D also helps with high BP which also affects me too. I’m sticking with taking extra vit D.
RE: I’ve been taking vitamin D3 supplement and have not one cold all winter
My doctor tells me that of all the supplements he has studied and looked at out there, the only one with certain, valid scientific evidence that helps is Vitamin D ( not sure if I agree with him, but there it is ).
Question: How many IU’s do you take daily?
Thanks.
How do we know how much Vitamin D3 is needed for these benefits. I have just been put on BP meds, and I am taking 5000 IU a day.
Doc ran the blood tests, and, if I remember right, my results were “normal -mid-range”.
Thanks for the tip, I happen to have some D3. I will try to take it regularly.
For whatever it is worth, my doc questioned me carefully about my showering habits. He said that showering with soap all over one’s body every day interferes with vitamin D absorption. He advised only sopping the smelly parts, and leaving the rest of the skin soap free, along with showering less often, and never after being out in the sun.
I am elderly, and not out digging ditches or plowing the north 40, so this doesn’t present any social problems for me.
Others may have different requirements, but it might be worth considering that our grandparents probably didn’t obsess about daily full-body bathing/shampooing as much as we do in the present advertising age.
When I was growing up, eons ago, once a week (usually Saturday night) was required, with a vinegar rinse to get all the soap off the body and out of the hair (hard well water, I guess).
I do live in the north, and we do not get much effective sun up here, so we really should be supplementing, as the sun isn’t strong enough.