[corkoman]

Did everyone get that? Not sure how much more foggy an article can get - low Vit D can be bad for you if you have bad genes. Sound familiar?

Get some sun - don't use sunscreen unless you will be in the sun for >15 minutes.

[Ladysmith]

Here’s how I see it through my own condition. The bad gene isn’t allowing the vitamin D that one takes in to convert to *active vitamin D* that the body uses.

Granted, I could be misinterpretting what I read.

I deal with hypoparathyroidism due to my pararthyroid glands getting damaged during thyroid surgeries. In laymen’s terms, the vitamin D I take in can’t be converted to active vitamin D that the body uses. No additional amount of sun or supplements helps. It’ll sit in my body unmetabolized.

Where all this becomes a problem is with my blood serum - calcium in my blood. Again, thanks to the thyroid surgeries, my blood serum gets down to dangerous levels: hypocalcemia. I need to take loads of calcium for it but for that to metabolize properly, I need active vitamin D.

So in a nutshell, I have to take a prescription called calcitriol (active vitamin D) for the rest of my life in order to keep the calcium in my blood stable.

For what it’s worth, back to the article, when my calcium is low, my blood pressure goes up. Get decent about of calcium in and the blood pressure goes down.