No wonder! My husband is diabetic and cannot drink milk, because the lactose is converted to glucose. So I am not surprised that most diabetics are deficient in vitamin D.
Supplements have no taste. . .easy to take. Take enough and take ‘D/3’. . .
Consider getting it from other source, other than milk.
Supplements are readily available, if limited sunshine exposure is not an option. See if it may help.
Who told him that? I’ve been diabetic for nearly 40 years and drik milk as part of a balanced diet.
While I'm not diabetic, I am lactose intolerant. You can buy lactase supplements (drops or tablets) that will get rid of the lactose, or you can buy milk that's already lactose free. It's substantially more expensive, but on the other hand, it will last a LONG time in the fridge, since when milk goes bad, the lactose is converted by lactic acid.
Mark
There are many ways to get Vit D. I’m also lactose intolerant and was never a milk drinker, but could tolerate some cheese and some ice cream, if it was the cheap kind whipped up with a lot of air and not so much cream. As a vegan now, I get my Vit D from fortified soy milk, food, and vitamins.
That said, after seeing some of the Vit D/diabetes posts and medical reporting over the past year, I started taking Vit D supplements. I was taking about 2-3000 units a day for about 6 months. Even at that, when I had my levels checked by my endo, my Vit D levels were almost nonexistent. I’m now on prescription strength Vit D taken 2x a month. I need to get my levels rechecked to see if they’ve improved, but if there is any correlation between Vit D levels and diabetes, I seem to be living proof. I also have metabolic syndrome, am beige/olive skinned and lived in cloudy Seattle for almost 5 years. I didn’t think it would be as low as it was, but I wasn’t surprised I had a low Vit D level.
Regarding another post re sedentary lifestyle - I wish people knew more about diabetes. There are very obese, inactive people who never become diabetics; there are people like me with diabetes on both sides of the family and who was probably going to get it at some point, no matter what the activity level; there are average-sized active people who get it. I agree that some of the increase in diabetes is linked to the type and amount of food people eat and their general lifestyle, but you can’t point to every Type 2 diabetic and say ‘you did this to yourself’ just as not every case of cancer is due to a lack of vegetables in the diet. Sometimes it just happens.
The lactose is converted to acid and gas by
enteric bacteria when there is no lactase to
convert the lactose to glucose. Lactose intolerance is
a common symptom of gluten intolerance. Lactase
is manufactured by the tips of the cilia in the
small colon. Gluten damages the cilia. The first
thing to go is the tips...with the loss of lactase.
Try a gluten free diet for a month. That may solve
the lactose intolerance. If drinking milk brings on
a “loopy” feeling, try goat’s milk. If that doesn’t
work, soy milk is a decent fallback.
I’m type 2 and my doctor told me not to drink milk and i’m not lactose int in fact i don’t think my doctor ever checked anything to do with my vity D ..
Seriously, check out buttermilk. I forget what I read about it tho. :-)
http://www.telusplanet.net/public/ekende/lactose.htm
If you like, stir in some salt and pepper before drinking.