[Future Useless Eater]

80 good blog posts on Vitamin D3 here...

http://heartscanblog.blogspot.com/search/label/vitamin%20D

...and excellent D3 site here as well

http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/news.shtml

[Future Useless Eater]

...and stay away from “Nature Made” brand of Vitamin D capsules.

Lots of people have taken that brand for some time, then had their blood levels of vitamin D tested, and found near-zero improvement. So it has been shown to contain little or no vitamin D3.

Most other brands are fine, BUT you have to take them ALONG WITH FAT, or else take the softgel types, since this vitamin is fat-solulable (not absorbed unless it is taken along with fat)

[Pining_4_TX]

Thanks!

[Pining_4_TX]

One possible downside of takng excessive amounts of D is that it might increase the risk of kidney stones in people prone to them.

Here is more useful info on D:

http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/vitamins/vitaminD/

[dixiechick2000]

Thank you! Those are very good sites!

I use doses of “light therapy”...aka tanning bed...too.

It feels like a Florida beach, and you wouldn’t believe the amount of energy I feel afterward.

I know...it’s not good for me, but I don’t do it every day, and in the summer not at all.

I reserve it for the deepest and darkest days of the year...and for before I head south on a trip.