Posted on 08/16/2011 8:59:19 AM PDT by decimon
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THank you for keeping track and bringing of all this to us, decimon!
Here’s a question. If this finding is true, do very fair skinned people like redheads have a lower rate of colon cancer? Fair skinned people produce much more vitamin D from sunlight than dark skinned people do so it would seem the fairer skinned people would, on average, have a lower rate of colon cancer just as they have a higher rate of skin cancer.
I doubt it. I am very fair skinned and get get vitamin D in a prescription form because I am severely deficient and unable to process it properly. This week I take one 10,000id once a day and after that will take 2 per week to try to keep my levels up to normal.
I doubt it. I am very fair skinned and get get vitamin D in a prescription form because I am severely deficient and unable to process it properly. This week I take one 10,000iu once a day and after that will take 2 per week to try to keep my levels up to normal.
You’re welcome.
Before beginning to read about his stuff I'd have said I've received ample sunlight for most of my life. Now, having thought about how much beneficial sunlight there is and how much I've actually received, I would say that I haven't gotten enough beneficial sunlight. With a bit more thought I'd say that's true of most people.
Milk is a very poor source of vitamin D. An 8 oz glass contains only 100 iu.
I’ve read a couple of articles that said that Vit D taken when there is a deficiency in Vit K (which supposedly most people have) that supplementing with Vit D can actually lead to heart disease.
Oh, and I should have said, my post wasn’t aimed at you, I think you already know that, it was aimed at the writer of the article. ;)
In the FWIW category, I’d like to pass this anecdote on to Freepers:
I have had chronically low Vit D for years, starting with diagnosis with a severe autoimmune disease.
Over the years, I have taken all kinds of supplements and prescriptions, and made dietary changes, to try to raise my Vit D to normal levels. One prob I always had with that is I knew there were several different types of Vit D and no pill was going to get it right in terms of what my body actually needed. and anyway, no matter what I took or ate, my Vit D levels remained stubornly very low.
At the same time, I took meds that advised “stay out of the sun,” plus I fell for the ubiquitous admonition to use massive amounts of sunscreen whenever I was at the beach or wherever. So I wasn’t getting any natural Vit D and I can tell you no doctor ever recommended that either.
Recently I said the hell with this and started sunning, sunbathing, whatever you want to call it — laying out in the sun with as few clothes on as possible.
I started with about ten minutes a day. As soon as my skin felt hot, I went in. I worked up to about 45-60 minutes a day. Again, changing position as soon as I could feel my skin getting hot. (This amount of sun has not been enough to make me tan, if that means anything.)
I did this about two months, then had some bloodwork done. Would you believe that for the first time in at least two decades my blood Vit D levels were normal?
I feel that not only am I “getting” more Vit D, that my body is making the right mix of Vit Ds, unlike any pill I could take.
Yes, it’s a very “duh” point after the fact. But anyway, just throw it out there for people interested in Vit D.
I recently read that there is no some question about whether Vit D in milk is absorbable at all if it is not whole milk.
Wear a hat and a longsleeve cotton shirt if you will be out for a long time....and Stop the sunscreen.
Other times....walk in the sunshine, hum a little tune and smile.
Yep that is what My Dr said.If you use sunscreen you block all the vitamin D s using it and being out in the sun defeats to purpose of the sun in reference to vitamin D.She is a diabetes specialist and says she fears that many more kids will be diagnosed with type1 from the over use of high powered sunscreens since vitamin D deficiency is a major thing with type ones like me.
I hadn’t ready that, but wouldn’t that just figure? What a waste then. I just worry that parents think the small amount in milk was just fine and I am not sure there is really much in cheese or yogurt either (and I bet if you quizzed parents they would say, sure, it’s also got just as much as milk so my kids are getting enough if they eat cheese). I don’t think it’s the govt’s business to force people to eat right, but I think that when they start interfering by doing things like putting vitamins in milk for instance, they give people a false sense of security. And in this case, they appear to have been wrong anyway.
Probably if you go in the sun when it’s comfortable, get a base tan early in the season and don’t have a skin type that is particularly prone to skin cancer (some people are genetically unlucky) you are ok. I suspect in a natural setting people didn’t strip naked and lay in the sun during the point when the sun was at it’s highest. They probably found some shade and took a little siesta (or did something that could be done in the shade— if they could and went back out and worked when it got a little cooler.
Nothing feels better than a little sun on your skin. I think there’s a reason for that. Of course, when I had mine tested I was extremely low. It took me almost a year to bring mine into the normal range.
I get my check every three years...and take my D-3 religiously (5,000IU).
Thanks again for the excellent article.
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