Posted on 02/05/2023 4:33:47 PM PST by ConservativeMind
A new study hints that treating low vitamin D levels with supplements might have a critical benefit for certain people: a decreased risk of attempting suicide.
Researchers found that those prescribed vitamin D were nearly 50% less likely to attempt suicide over eight years, versus those who were not prescribed the supplements.
At the same time, it's known that vitamin D deficiency can cause depression-like symptoms, including mood changes and chronic fatigue, said Dr. Christine Crawford.
Crawford, who was not involved in the study, said that in her practice, she often has patients with depression symptoms tested for blood levels of vitamin D, as well as vitamin B12, folic acid and thyroid hormones. (Deficiencies in those vitamins, or thyroid hormone disturbances, can also cause depressive symptoms.)
Vitamin D supplements contain either of two forms of the vitamin: D2 (ergocalciferol) or D3 (cholecalciferol). Most of the veterans on supplements were taking vitamin D3. In that group, 0.2% were treated for attempted suicide or self-harm during the study period. That compared with 0.36% of veterans not prescribed vitamin D.
There was a similar pattern among veterans prescribed vitamin D2: The rate was 0.27% who attempted suicide or otherwise harmed themselves, versus 0.52% of veterans without vitamin D prescriptions.
When the researchers weighed other factors, like physical and mental health conditions, vitamin D supplementation was still linked to a 45% to 48% lower risk of attempting suicide.
And it turned out that the association was strongest among veterans who had low vitamin D to start (blood levels lower than 20 ng/mL), and among Black veterans.
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Yep. Depending on how long you go, the body turns on a healing process that few understand. I think it is somewhere around day 30.
I guess you don’t understand “/s”
I didn’t see the /s; but fasting is the #1 thing to do for all of those things you listed.
Ok, I’ll ask you a serious question. I typically go 18 hours from dinner to my first meal of the next day. Is that fasting?
Intermittent, somewhat. Dr Eric Berg on YT has the best videos I’ve seen, from 3-40 day fasts. He has some pointers on how to do intermittent fasts too.
“If you have problems from having too much vitamin d, consuming green and orange vegetables help.”
What might those problems be? Thank you.
Yes...there probably is a connection. That and other hormones.
Cool! He's got a new version: Earl Mindell's New Vitamin Bible (Mass Market Paperback, 2011)
I read Adelle Davis' study of supplements, Let's Get Well: A Practical Guide to Renewed Health Through Nutrition, in the early 70s and wow, what a great help it has been. It's also revised, and she wrote several other great guides to fitness and nutritution.
I've never actually got an official diagnosis on that. I think it is rheumatoid - the joints at the wrists and the big toes are swollen. The wrists don't hurt, but the ones at the big toes are painful if too much pressure on them. I have to wear oversized shoes to relive some discomfort. Recently, the joints on my fingers are now starting to ache.
I'm 67, and I was on the carbamazepine for 20 years, which is suspected to destroy vitamin D. It is not clear when searching this issue about the drug interacting with the vit D, or lack of vitamin D would lead to arthritis.
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