Posted on 09/03/2019 10:49:59 AM PDT by bgill
How many times did your parents make you go outside and play? You should call and thank them...
A new study suggests vitamin D might also might lead to aggressive behavior in adolescents.
University of Michigan researchers say they have found a link between vitamin D deficiency in young kids and aggression in adolescents. According to their study of schoolchildren in Bogotá, Columbia, almost young kids with low levels of the vitamin were nearly twice as likely to exhibit aggression as they got older.
"Children who have vitamin D deficiency during their elementary school years appear to have higher scores on tests that measure behavior problems when they reach adolescence," said Eduardo Villamor, professor of epidemiology at the U-M School of Public Health and senior author of the study appearing in the Journal of Nutrition.
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I take Vit D supplement of about 3000U I find it works very well better than Prozak. I get test for Vit D by my Dr. It was a hunch given to me by a friend and my Dr tested me and I had about 1/4th of what you should have.
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1. The term, Vitamin, is misunderstood and abused. It is essentially a legal term, dictated un-Constitutionally by the FDA. Scientifically, a vitamin is an organic substance that the body must have, cannot make, and without which it will develop a deficiency disease.
2. The Essential Fatty Acids (2: LA/w6 and ALA/w3) are functionally vitamins, but the FDA refused to recognize them as such (unofficially called Vitamin F in old literature). In contrast, Vitamin D3 [Cholecalciferol] is not a vitamin; it is a cortico-steroid hormone made in the skin in response to full-spectrum sunlight.
3. Human beings in modern society now cover most of their skin when outdoors, while living indoors, with dim, partial-spectrum lighting. Thus, most human beings in urban environments now are by definition D-deficient.
4. Endocrinologists have been prescribing up to 50,000 IU of D3 since at least the early 1990s, and have achieved excellent results, especially in mitigating, even reversing, symptoms of Diabetes.
5. The main proviso is to avoid any Calcium supplementation when taking 40,000 IU or more of D on a regular basis, since the body becomes hyper-efficient in utilizing the macro-mineral.
Not sure I’m posting to the general thread...very timely discussion. I just began megadosing to get me up to what doctor prescribed a few years ago. I’m 61, female, and overweight so it may explain why I have often tested with a deficiency (less than 20) and not just low. Feel tired all the time, muscle weakness (I thought it was lipitor). So I will take 50K IU every few days for a few weeks, then drop to 5000 IU daily.
Any opinions? How long has it taken to build up sufficient amounts? I also live in South FL, so am certainly getting enough via sunlight.
There was a Medical Director of a Hosp. that directed every admission have vitamin “D”..given...and as I recall...There was a decrease in Hosp. length of stays...
K2 was first discovered by the dentist, Weston Price, in the 1930s; he called it the X-Factor in grass-fed dairy milkfat.
Many decades later, it was determined to be K2, a factor in calcium utilization, and bone (hence, teeth!) formation.
His work is largely responsible for the resurgence of the natural grass diet in cattle: The green plants supply the K1, which is turned into K2 in their guts.
Brand is not that important for D. What is important:
1. That it is D3 [Cholecalicerol], the most active form; D2 (from lanolin) used to be common on the market.
2. That it is in a good delivery form; ideally, this would be powder or liquid with a minimum of excipients or binders. Generally, capsules are superior to tablets for absorption, although that is not as much of a problem now as twenty years ago.
3. That the rest of the diet enhances its use; that would include a source of K2, such as grass-fed-source butter or milk, or a supplement: MK7 is more active and stable in the body that MK4, but both work.
N.B.
A related substance from grass-fed dairy, also discovered in the 1930s, is the Wulzen Factor. Like the X-Factor, it is a plant substance absorbed by cows from their grass feed. Unlike K2, it is not heat stable, and is destroyed by Pasteurization. “Raw” (minimally-processed) Shea Nut Butter, and fresh, raw Sugar Cane Juice (for sugar cane is a fast-growing grass), are both rich sources of Wulzen Factor.
Like K2, the Wulzen Factor [Stigmasterol, a plant cortico-steroid growth hormone], is a beneficial factor in Calcium utilization. Rosalind Wulzen called it the Anti-Stiffness [Anti-Arthritis] Factor, because she found that Pasteurized milk promoted osteo-arthritis, while raw milk mitigated osteo-arthritis, and the difference lay in the absence or presence of the Wulzen Factor.
There was a movement by scientists in the late 1940s to have the Wulzen Factor declared a Vitamin, but the USDA, which garnered money from mandated Pasteurization equipment through fees (inspections) and fines (violations), quashed it.
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For the last 10+ years I have taken a 5000 IU Vit D tablet every day. Guess How long it’s been since I had a common cold?
My Dr. at my request had lab work to determine my Vit D level. It was slightly above the average. So far so good.
I’m not sure of the brand I take. What ever WalMart sells. I once bought a three year supply from Amazon because the price was so good. But Vit D is cheap.
It's Kirkland...a Costco brand.
Don’t know if it’s the same guy but I remember there was a doctor who gave everyone on the ward Vit D with excellent results.
Thanks for that.
Wish I could find the info again....was impressive.
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