Posted on 01/26/2014 8:37:57 PM PST by chessplayer
Healthy people taking vitamin D supplements are unlikely to see any significant impact when it comes to preventing broken bones or cardiovascular conditions, claims new research appearing in the latest edition of The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology.
According to the AFP news agency, the study authors reviewed more than 40 previous trials in order to determine whether or not use of these vitamin supplements achieved a benchmark of reducing the risk of heart attacks, strokes, cancer or bone fractures by at least 15 percent.
Previous research had seen a strong link between vitamin D deficiency and poor health in these areas, the news agency said. However, the new study strengthens arguments that vitamin D deficiency is usually the result of ill health not the cause of it, and the authors report that there is little justification for doctors to prescribe vitamin D supplements as a preventive measure for these disorders.
That’s the key to good health, exercise and diet. However, a daily supplement from a multivitamin won’t hurt anybody.
I agree, a daily multi-vitamin pill is pretty innocuous.
My only point is exercise is the best thing you can do for your body to remain healthy, energetic and even increase your resistance to diseases.
“...the study authors reviewed more than 40 previous trials...”
These AssHats did not do a study. They ran previous trials through their statistical $hit and came to the conclusions stated. Well, good for them. Time to do that re the Pharmaceutical trials that the FDA uses to justify approval of all the Big Pharma Drugs that kill people.
D3 has extrodinary benefits to the human body. There is proof of that from legitimate studies. D3 is one of the more important supplements available to us. 10,000 units a day is not too much.
Just tell these misfit researchers where to go...and btw, it is very warm there.
I learned to program on a TRS-80 tape drive computer.
I’m talking audio tapes! LOL
It’s just the state of the art picture I wanted to paint for these busy bodies who want to protect us from ourselves.
“I wont put liberal politics past this. Vitamin D instantly explains the significantly shorter life expectancies that people of African descent have in northern latitudes”
Dark skinned people do not get any where near enough Vitamin D from the Sun, except in Equitorial latitudes. I have several friends/clients of African descent now on D3, 10,000 units a day. They absolutely need it. But so do the rest of us.
50 years ago just about every vegetable I ate came from the family garden. It was picked when it was ready to be eaten or canned. The food today is cut two weeks before so that it can stand the torture of mechanical processing, then gassed to attain the best color and three days of cold storage during transportation before hitting the market shelves.
The vitamins are not there anymore. You should supplement your diet with vitamins.
I'm with you. Been doing that for five years now. Not had a sick day. I know that's anecdotal but I won't stop the D3.
Good for us!
“From a biological sense, it does not make any sense whatsoever to take supplements. We evolved eating an omnivorous diet, which remains the diet most suited for our health. In the case of vitamin D, we evolved to make it ourselves in exactly the quantity we need....”
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Well, we didn’t evolve living and working indoors not getting much sunlight. I’ll continue to take my D3 supplement as NEEDED to maintain proper blood levels.
I’m in total agreement with you. I haven’t been sick, either. And no flue shots for me.
During the previous six million years of hominid evolution we ate animals with about 3% omega3 by weight. We also had virtually no option but to manufacture huge amounts of vitamin d3 via B ultraviolet radiation and cholesterol. Today we bathe away the limited amounts of vitamin d3 allowed by clothing and the limited B radiation delivered in northern latitudes. Omega3 and d3 are essential to human health and are nearly obliterated from contemporary human diet.
Normal foods do not contain D3. Acquiring natural D3 requires getting a substantial amount of sun exposure and certain fats in the diet.
I get very little sun exposure. When I do, I burn very easy.
I’ve been deficient in D3 for 20+ years and slowly developed a number of immune system issues. One of which degraded my quality of life significantly. I’ve been taking D3 (more than 2000 IU a day) for about 3 years now and it changed my life.
There was a direct correlation to my taking D3 and my resulting health. I’ve taken any number of other vitamins and supplements over the years and frankly I couldn’t tell the difference with or without them. This is the only “vitamin” I’ve ever taken that’s had a profound affect - but you have to take much more than 400 IU that’s recommended by the USDA.
Other people that get much more sun exposure may well not benefit from D3 supplements. But for those who do not, D3 can be life changing.
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It’s not Big Pharma doing this. Who do you think makes the D3 supplements?
Meanwhile, the Daily Mail reports widespread Vitamin D deficiency amongst British children, whose mothers have been cutting down on sausages and fish, and slather them with sunscreen on those occasions when they are allowed to play outside under the overcast British sky.
But the Lancet assures us that vitamin d deficiency doesn’t cause health problems.
I seem to benefit greatly from vitamin D.
I don’t believe it. I’ll continue to take 10k IUs per day.
During the previous six million years of hominid evolution we ate animals with about 3% omega3 by weight. We also had virtually no option but to manufacture huge amounts of vitamin d3 via B ultraviolet radiation and cholesterol. Today we bathe away the limited amounts of vitamin d3 allowed by clothing and the limited B radiation delivered in northern latitudes. Omega3 and d3 are essential to human health and are nearly obliterated from contemporary human diet.
Haven’t you heard? Now they are trashing omega-3 and are claiming omega-3/fish oil in both pill form and from eating fish itself is a killer.
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