Posted on 11/09/2015 11:38:37 AM PST by blam
Samuel Blackstone, Details Magazine
November 8, 2015
Daylight savings time is here, whether you like it or not. That means more cold weather, less warm sun, and for some people, vitamin D deficiencies, which, like any vitamin deficiency, can cause a host of health problems.
This week, though, researchers completed a preliminary study on vitamin D and found that if you do happen to get enough of this essential vitamin, it not only reduces the risk of heart disease, but also helps you exercise more strenuously, while simultaneously exhibiting lower signs of exertion.
In layman's terms, vitamin D helps you exercise harder without becoming more tired, or even more simply, vitamin D turns you into Superman. How Vitamin D can turn you into Superman
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I take a brisk one mile walk daily.
I take 5k IUs of D3 every day and run a couple of miles three times a week.
It ain’t getting any easier.
Faster than a speeding bullet!
Too bad the SOOOOOOPER Geniuses of American medical science kept telling me 400IU per day was the maximum safe limit for most of my adult life.
WGAF?
I sit around all day in my office and then go home, drink a pint of Vodka and fry frozen chicken tenders in my FRY-Daddy for dinner.
I take glucophage for T2 diabetes and Lisinopril for HBP. Before I go to bed, I’ll typically down a chocolate bar.
Come to think of it...we’re just the same, right?
No, it's not. We are on Standard Time now.
An Interesting Article:
Most Vitamins Are Useless, Here Are The Ones You Should Take
I started taking additional 5,000 IU of vitamin D daily, early this year. This is in addition to my multivitamin. I do think it has helped my energy level to be much more consistent.
Does anyone care that Vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin which means the excess builds up in your body fat and can be toxic?
I take 5000 IU and seldom leave my desk...
Go sit in the Sun, you will get all you need.
I lay out in the sun for 6-10 minutes per side each day. If I’ve missed a few days due to weather or something else, I may run the cycle twice in one day.
It is a very relaxing experience.
Yes, it’s said you shouldn’t expose yourself to sunlight, but I don’t agree completely. Small dosages like what I am getting aren’t a problem IMO. Besides, it’s the single best way to get Vitamin D there is. It recharges your Vitamin D in a few sessions.
My vitamin D levels drop during the winter but they boost right back up in the spring. I don't use sunscreen either unless I'm at a beach or otherwise have need to be out in the sun all day.
But does it increase the size of your tallywhacker ?
*running away*
Not to mention there is no need to take vitamins unless it’s for some medical condition like eating hardtack all the time and developing scurvy. If a person eats right there is no need.
It’s hard to get a toxic level of vitamin D even with supplements
If you leave it out in the sun long enough.
I take vitamin D daily and so far, no sign of Lois Lane begging to find out what “man of steel” really means.
My doctor had me on 50,000 IU at one point. Regardless, I take K2 for possible excess vitamin D and the extra calcium in the blood.
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