Can Vitamin D Save Your Life?

Discover Magazine ^ | Mariana Gosnell

[Fractal Trader]

How much Vitamin D do you take? I’ve been taking 1000. Most of the recent studies show minimal or negative impacts for most vitamins, but D seems to be doing ok.

I take Omega 3, Cinnamon and Vitamin D. What do you take?

FT

[dan1123]

>> How much Vitamin D do you take? <<

Usually half an hour out in the sun is enough.

[blam]

"How much Vitamin D do you take?"

400 IU a day and I eat one can of tuna daily.

[Not gonna take it anymore]

Make sure you are taking Vitamin D3. I just ordered 5000 IU pills a day.

[jonrick46]

After reading the article, I thought that all I have to do is drink milk. Milk has vitamin D. However, the article says that I should get between 1,500 to 2,000 IUs of vitamin D per day. A glass of vitamin D fortified milk contains about 100 IUs of vitamin D.

The next method of vitamin D intake is from moderate sun exposure. The body produces its own vitamin D through sun exposure. However, the darker your skin complexion and the older you are the less you will produce. One good thing is that the body has a way to eliminate excessive vitamin D production through sun exposure. If one were to lay in the sun for 15 minutes in a bathing suit, their body would produce around 10,000 IUs of vitamin D. For those who don’t get much sunlight during the cold winter months, I see supplementation as a good idea.

[heartwood]

1000 mg D3, fish oil, C, 200 mcg folic acid, 80 mg aspirin.

Do you take the cinnamon for blood sugar? Does it work?

[traderrob6]

I take 4000IU D3, 2g Fish oil and 1g Krill oil daily.

[goodnesswins]

Lemon Flavored COD LIVER OIL (from Carlsons)......it’s got Vitamin D and the AHA/DHA’s you need......I take 2 Tbsp per day, plus a 2000iu Vit D3 pill in winter. Just don’t go really high on the Vit D, folks.....and get tested especially for 1,25 Dihydroxy. Those who live in states other than the extreme south probably need add’l Vit. D.

[Mrs. Don-o]

How much Vitamin D your skin makes depends, not only on the color of your skin and your age, but also your latitude. At high latitudes, laying in the weak sunlight all day naked wouldn’t do much for you in the non-summer months when you don’t get good verticals. That’s why people in Scandanavia, Inuits, and so forth have always made fish and fish oil a significant part of their diet.

It’s possible to OD on fat-stored vitamins like A and D, but it’s not easy. Hint: don’t eat polar bear liver.
I was reading that in some science book. Apparently alaskan and Artctic explorers have to bury polar bear livers under ice to keep their sled dogs from getting into it.

[Clintons Are White Trash]

Because of malabsorption after Duodenal Switch surgery 2 years ago, I take 50,000 IU about 3 or 4 times a week. I don’t know that it’s related, but I haven’t been sick once in over 2 years either.

[Robert357]

Be careful with the type of cinnamon, as there is a substance that is found in ground cinnamon that can damage the liver. Some brands of the spice may be contaminated with coumarin.

[dan1123]

You could always install one of these in your bathroom:

[Freedom4US]

A good snopes or equivalent subject would be the governments own research on mercury and seafood ingestion correlation. I read somewhere they used some small native pacific islander control group, that ate nothing but seafood. Naturally, the story goes, they had an “off the chart” mercury blood level. Hence the “avoid intake of seafood” admonishments that are somewhat common.

Personally, I don’t worry about it too much. If you live long enough you’ll see the same diets come and go, under a new name. The Atkins diet, for example, was known as the “Drinking Mans diet” in the 1960s. Other than that, they are exactly the same recommendations by the “experts”. Others warned of kidney problems if following that kind of diet. Eggs are Bad! No, they’re good. Coffee is BAd! No, it’s actually good - with anti-oxidants. Moderate alcohol is Good... No, it’s bad, etc.

Baloney. I eat what I want, and exercise heavily, lots of fresh air and sunshine, and simple wholesome foods. If I don’t get hit by a truck, maybe I’ll get lucky. cheers!

[savedbygrace]

5,000 units a day.

[Freedom4US]

How do I know if I have the “good” cinnamon?

Cassia is also called cinnamon, confusing things further. I think that’s the “red hot” candy kind, that isn’t really cinnamon, either. Then there’s the powdery stuff that is good on sugared toast... Is that the difference?

[Robert357]

You might check out the following, which is something I read a while back because cinnamon, vinegar and green tea now seem to the be rage for weight loss.

http://www.peoplespharmacy.com/archives/herb_home_remedy_qa/cinnamon_helps_control_blood_sugar.asp

[ODDITHER]

I had my cholesterol checked and my triglycerides were 363 and by HDL was down to 40.
I started Vitamin D 2000 IU
Niacin
Fish oil
coral calcium
Decreased my carbs and increased my protein but really didn’t go on a really strict diet.
In three months I lost 20 lbs - my HDL was up to 60 and my triglicerides were down to 81.
Not to mention my knee pain is gone and I sleep like a baby.

Getting old doesn’t have to be hell but after 40 you do have to supplement.

[toddlintown]

“and I eat one can of tuna daily.”

How’s the mercury poisoning working out for you?

[Dysart]

“and I eat one can of tuna daily.” How’s the mercury poisoning working out for you?

He's glowing over it.

I had this concern when I was woofing down a can nearly every day so I switched to salmon. Tastes better and less mercury toxicity risk associated with it. More costly though.