[steve86]

Go ahead and take it but recently studies have failed to show any benefit of supplemental D3.

An exception might be if blood levels are low, but you have to spring for a lab test to find that out.

My 97 YO mother just had her serum D tested -- was in normal range.

Although the researchers identified 137 different health outcomes associated with vitamin D levels, they found that only 10 of these outcomes had been comprehensively tested in trials, and only one outcome - that an infant's birth weight is linked to a mother's vitamin D levels in late pregnancy - had enough evidence to deem it a "benefit."

[SatinDoll]

We live in Washington State. The sunshine here is rare during the rainy late fall, winter, and spring.

The last two days it has rained with temps in the mid-sixties to mid-seventies. This means staying inside the house for me. If it wasn’t for the oral dose of D3, I probably wouldn’t be receiving that vitamin.