Reasons to Place a Bet on Vitamin D

[SecularMotion]

At least once a week, someone, usually a woman over 50, asks me about vitamin D. Perhaps a routine checkup has revealed a deficiency, prompting the doctor to recommend an over-the-counter supplement or, in severe cases, large prescription doses to correct the problem.

Often, though, the concern is bone health. Without vitamin D, the body cannot properly absorb calcium, and bones become fragile. At the annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons last month, researchers reported that among 889 adult patients treated for a fracture at a Missouri trauma center, blood levels of vitamin D were “insufficient” in 78 percent and “frankly deficient” in 39 percent. The study group excluded those with known risk factors for vitamin D deficiency.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/12/reasons-to-place-a-bet-on-vitamin-d/?hp

[FrenchieCat]

1. Vitamin D changed my health as well as my life......

Seriously!

[KT2000]

5. me too!

it has improved so many things it is really incredible.

[Schema Thing]

6. in what ways?

[FrenchieCat]

7. I used to get up with stiff joints,

and thought I was just getting old...although I'm in my very early 50s. Started taking 4000mg of Vitamin D each day, and I'm more fit than most now!

[Schema Thing]

8. cool!

I started taking it a couple of years ago but didn't see any changes dramatic enough to notice. It did seem that I managed to not get colds as often as those around me, but that is hard to call.

For whatever reason, throughout my life I've found that I never actually notice any vitamin supplementation doing me any good (doesn't mean it's not, I know).... and not for lack of trying. But last year I made a very radical change in my diet (to healthy Vegan) and holy-moley was that ever a dramatic change for the good!

But still, the logic behind why we all (and especially Black people) might not be getting enough Vitamin d is compelling. It would probably be smart for me to start taking it again.

[TexasTowelie]

2. I have vitamin D deficiency.

Them old bones hurt a lot if they keep up the regimen of taking my vitamins every day.

[wendylaroux]

3. Vit D wiill

also fight off colds,flu,etc. It is good stuff.

[Robeysays]

4. vitamin D is the one synthesized by the skin in sun light right?

read in the news paper here that AZ is one of the only states that doesn't have a deficiency.

i imagine because we can't really avoid the sun here.