Posted on 11/13/2009 3:00:50 PM PST by STARWISE
According to the thread article:
“The optimal level for the test is: 60-80 ng/dL, NOT 20-100 as listed as the lab reference ranges!”
vit D info
I thought it was D-3?
According to the NIH, at the latitude of Boston you will make no vitamin D from sunlight for the four months of Nov. through Feb. If that's so then you will make little vitamin D from sunlight for much of the rest of the year.
Vit. D3 is the supplement most professionals
believe everyone should take daily. It’s
what I and many other here take. The research
is compelling.
Read through the research articles above.
The D3 is what I take daily. 2400IU.
I see at least 5,000 is recommended; I’ll start taking more. Thanks for the info. ;o)
The overall theme of this thread seems to imply that mankind was only fit to occupy the most naturally nourishing neighborhoods in the original experiment and original sin was thus simple migration.
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That’s pretty interesting. I always try to get at least 15 minutes in the sun every day that’s sunny. I have started to pay attention and I think there’s really something to this theory. I notice I just feel better when I’ve had plenty of sunshine.
Thanks, but I don’t trust it. The raw ingredients are probably from China.
I’ll just try to get as much sunshine as possible.
Being a Canadian, I’m used to being depressed. ;-)
I learned it’s pretty darn amazing ...
If I was still in FL, I’d still be taking
the supplements, just less if I was actually
getting sunlight on unsunscreened skin for
20 mins/day .. which I never really did.
Global,
The “normal” range on blood tests starts at 20.
Optimum is at least 50, if not 60. Taking 2,000
IU is good, but I doubt it will bump you up
to the optimum range.
best,
ampu
“According to the NIH, at the latitude of Boston you will make no vitamin D from sunlight for the four months of Nov. through Feb. If that’s so then you will make little vitamin D from sunlight for much of the rest of the year.”
I’m in the PA area, but since I get little natural sunlight,
I supplement.
Is that Pennsylvania? Not much further south than Boston.
And it doesn't much matter. According to the NIH, it's somewhere in S. Carolina where you can make D from sunlight year round. But how much? Think about it and even in the southern states it must be a good part of the year when you couldn't make much D from sunlight no matter how much time you spent outdoors. Maybe in southern Florida.
I take 3000 to 5000 IU of Vit D and did not have a cold or flue in 7 years.
I take 4,000 IU’s a day.
I ain't getting that again...much to the disappointment of a couple of H1N1-obsessed FReepers who gleefully adivsed me that people can get it twice.
The clearly don't know me...;-)
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