Drink fortified whole milk and stop all the sunscreen unless you’re actually laying in the sun.
meh- I had severe low D level, mine was 9- went on suppliments, got it back to where it supposed to be, and guess what? Never felt ANY difference- no more energy, happiness, good mood, strength- nothing, everything just remained the same-
Most US citizens are deficient in most minerals and most vitamins.
Bump.....
Um...a new study? Jesus, low Vitamin D levels have been linked to depression for a while now. After baking in the sun of the Permian Basin for most of 2012, I returned to the snow and gloom of winter in NW PA. I tied off with a naturopafh and she found that my habit of self-medicating with massive amounts of coffee and unfiltered cigarettes was textbook compromised ardrenal function. I had already started myself on Cod Liver Oil daily for the Vitamin D.
Not just depression, joint pain and later in life brittle bones Osteoporosis. D 3 and FMS (Fibromyalgia very painful muscle disease)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140117090504.htm
Our IDIOT in the WH who thinks she is a nutritionist does not have a clue what the human body needs to function. It fluctuates with age.
Ladies since you are the most apt to develop OP, I suggest you start to protect your bones in your 20’s. Both available on Amazon. Reasonable prices. Treating OP is not only costly but the drugs all carry FDA Warnings, and Forteo carries an additional Black Box warning for Bone Cancer. It is a FDA restricted 2 yr treatment course that reverses itself upon completion and return to use of other OP drugs.
Your Bones: How You Can Prevent Osteoporosis and Have Strong Bones for Life - Naturally Lara Pizzorno 2013
The Whole Body Approach to OP
R. Keith McCormick
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Some important information about Vitamin D3.
To start with, whole body sun exposure for about 15 minutes will result in a large dose of about 30,000 IU, however, it will take several days to make its way to the bloodstream and change your serum Vitamin D level.
Oral Vitamin D will get into your blood much faster; however a small number of people are sensitive to as little as 300 IU, which was the old Minimum Daily Requirement, raised in 2010 to 600 IU for most people, and 800 IU for the elderly.
Another small group of people are unable to absorb oral Vitamin D.
Vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin so can be stored by the system, unlike water soluble vitamins.
Importantly, proper Vitamin D levels are essential to keeping a healthy immune system in several ways. First, a breakdown product of Vitamin D physically erodes pathogenic viral coats in your blood, which destroys them.
Second, third and fourth is that it opens three different immune response pathways to fight pathogens in your body. And fifth, it is a natural ACE inhibitor, that prevents your immune system from *overreacting* and harming you.
That is, most cold and flu symptoms are not from the disease, but are from the immune systems’ responses to the disease.
Some doctors are now recommending that at the onset of a cold or flu, a person could take as much as 30,000 IU of Vitamin D in a single dose, then take 10,000 IU daily until the symptoms end, and 4,000 IU maintenance dose for a month after. The *assumption* is that an average person would have to take 30,000 IU daily for at least two weeks before it might start to interfere with your calcium levels.
Oddly enough, people in some of the sunnier states have typically lower than normal Vitamin D levels.
Companies that provide “grocery store” blood tests are now regularly offering a check of your serum Vitamin D level, so it would be good to get such a test, which even if you are not in the below normal range would be useful in establishing a baseline.