It's about vitamin D

Thanks for sharing, I keep telling myself I should get a blood test but then forget about it.

 

Glad to see you're figuring things out. I too was deficient in Vitamin D and started supplementing with vitamin pills. But remember boys and girls nothing beats the real thing. I go for walks or sit out on my patio for hours if I know I'm not going anywhere specific that involves the outdoors for that day. Nature and natural sunlight cures modern issues.

 

I live in Florida so no winter here. But I don't see a harm supplementing it during the colder months especially if you have season changes.

 

I've realized over this past winter my body was lacking the most out of Vitamin D. I'm pretty pale right now and that's pretty much because I'm Home, Work, Home, 20-30minute walk. Can't even get out right now because It's rainy and gloomy in my state today. Tomorrow I will try to get out.. Maybe I need to make it be a early morning routine. It's good you got a blood test as some times we need it. I get them every three months and it says allot about what we need in our diet.

 

I'm jealous man. haha
I wish I could get a taste of the Sunshine State.

 

Apart from the fact that there are several forms of "vitamin D" (e.g. calciferol/ergocalciferol and cholecalciferol, D2 and D3 respectively) and the supplement may not give the form that is most needed, the "real thing" tends to come in maintenance levels, not in therapeutic quantities. Supplements can provide much higher amounts that help one to catch up from a deficiency.

If you have a deficiency, supplements will help you to catch up quicker, and without risk of sunburn. In any case, sunshine is not exactly vitamin D, and it requires some physiology (chemical processes) to manufacture vitamin D in the presence of sunlight. Vitamin D is produced when cholesterol and/or ergosterol is converted in the skin to cholecalciferol or ergocalciferol by the ultraviolet rays of the sun.

A tanning bed which provided ultraviolet light in the correct spectrum should have the same effect as the sunshine.

It may be useful to know that, because of the earth's tilt and the angle of the solar radiation being changed, in parts of America the amount of sunshine received in winter is 1/10 as much as in summer. Sunshine, of course, is not temperature dependent, though it does influence air temperatures. A cold summer day will still yield higher levels of solar radiation than the hottest day in winter.

 

Yep, sunlight,

also iodine in the air, trees, ground...

careful with the wireless radiations, blue-white lights, etc. the silent killers of our day and age

iodine deficiency is no joke

 

I keep meaning to have a blood test done.

Taking multi-vitamins jump starts my mood. So definitely some deficiency somewhere,

 

I also take vitamin D on a regular basis and am very happy with the results. I take high doses, 4,000 or more a day. I feel so much better

 

Thanks for mentioning it! I have been taking it for about 2 years, it does improve my immune system, had alopecia now its gone, not sure if V.D helped, but I definitely swear by it

 

I get regular panels done and found out a few years ago I am highly deficient in Vitamin D...among other things.

I take Vitamin D every day in the morning for the past few years and it's been fantastic. Many Americans (maybe 40% or more) are vitamin d deficient and should be checked.

Side note, I'm also B12 deficient as well as one who suffers from low T. I've been supplementing with T, B12, and D for the past few years and feel immensely better.

Great thread!

 

I took one of those tests recently, because I was having a lot of confusing health problems. Vitamin D was the only thing I was deficient in. I'm terrible at remembering to take it though.