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Broad spectrum lamps could be useful here. Exercising your body's natural ability to produce vitamin D seems like a good idea. There are also other well documented psychological benefits to controlled fullspectrum light exposure.
* http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/seasonal-affective-disord...
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Be aware that this study is about vitamin D deficiency. It's not start for some crazy health trend. You can go and check you vitamin D levels and if you don't get enough, use supplements to correct the situation.
Can any HNers recommend a cheap and accurate vitamin D test I can do at home? I asked my doctor for a vitamin D test at my last checkup and he warned me that my insurance probably wouldn't pay for it since "many people are asking for one these days without any symptoms of deficiency". Since I had no idea what the lab might end up charging me for it (in the U.S.) I decided against getting the test.
What does 'linked' word mean here? I see that verb in biological/medical articles very often and it always makes me think that researchers are very unsure about the results. It is like 'We believe there is a correlation, but we don't know for sure'. Am I wrong?
> We would not recommend more sun exposure, because of the increased risk of skin cancer. Broad spectrum lamps could be useful here. Exercising your body's natural ability to produce vitamin D seems like a good idea. There are also other well documented psychological benefits to controlled fullspectrum light exposure. * http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/seasonal-affective-disord... * https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc…
> We would not recommend more sun exposure, because of the increased risk of skin cancer. Broad spectrum lamps could be useful here. Exercising your body's natural ability to produce vitamin D seems like a good idea. There are also other well documented psychological benefits to controlled fullspectrum light exposure. * http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/seasonal-affective-disord... * https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc…
Vitamin D is fat soluble and generated by sunlight. Lard from a factory raised hog is going to have almost 0 IUs of Vitamin D. However, if you raise hogs on pasture with access to regular sunlight, their lard becomes highly enriched with Vitamin D.
We raise hogs and render our own lard and use it to cook with instead of fruit or seed oils. I've no empirical data as to the efficacy of such cooking, but I will say no one in our family has ever struggled with anything remotely resembling SAD, even living north of the 45 parallel.
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Be aware that this study is about vitamin D deficiency. It's not start for some crazy health trend. You can go and check you vitamin D levels and if you don't get enough, use supplements to correct the situation.
Can any HNers recommend a cheap and accurate vitamin D test I can do at home? I asked my doctor for a vitamin D test at my last checkup and he warned me that my insurance probably wouldn't pay for it since "many people are asking for one these days without any symptoms of deficiency". Since I had no idea what the lab might end up charging me for it (in the U.S.) I decided against getting the test.
You need to consciously take a very high dose to have an excess Vit. D amount
"according to some research, the tolerable upper intake level (UL) is 4,000 IU/day for ages 9–71,[51] while other research concludes that, in healthy adults, sustained intake of more than 1250 μg/day (50,000 IU) can produce overt toxicity after several months"
Common supplements are 5ug/10ug per day
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Can any HNers recommend a cheap and accurate vitamin D test I can do at home? I asked my doctor for a vitamin D test at my last checkup and he warned me that my insurance probably wouldn't pay for it since "many people are asking for one these days without any symptoms of deficiency". Since I had no idea what the lab might end up charging me for it (in the U.S.) I decided against getting the test.
Would they cover it if you did have symptoms? If so, here are some vague symptoms to "have" for your doctor: difficulty thinking clearly, bone pain, unexplained fatigue.
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Can any HNers recommend a cheap and accurate vitamin D test I can do at home? I asked my doctor for a vitamin D test at my last checkup and he warned me that my insurance probably wouldn't pay for it since "many people are asking for one these days without any symptoms of deficiency". Since I had no idea what the lab might end up charging me for it (in the U.S.) I decided against getting the test.
Just take it. You need to consciously take a very high dose to have an excess Vit. D amount "according to some research, the tolerable upper intake level (UL) is 4,000 IU/day for ages 9–71,[51] while other research concludes that, in healthy adults, sustained intake of more than 1250 μg/day (50,000 IU) can produce overt toxicity after several months" Common supplements are 5ug/10ug per day
That will give you vitamins A and D, and the essential omega-3 fatty acids DHA and EPA.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Be aware that this study is about vitamin D deficiency. It's not start for some crazy health trend. You can go and check you vitamin D levels and if you don't get enough, use supplements to correct the situation.
Can any HNers recommend a cheap and accurate vitamin D test I can do at home? I asked my doctor for a vitamin D test at my last checkup and he warned me that my insurance probably wouldn't pay for it since "many people are asking for one these days without any symptoms of deficiency". Since I had no idea what the lab might end up charging me for it (in the U.S.) I decided against getting the test.
They email you paperwork, you take that to a local lab and then get your results online. It looks like Vitamin D is $47.
I used it for a while when I was suffering from a health issue that required regular blood tests, since it ended up being cheaper than a doctors visit + co-insurance for the lab fees.
The biggest downside is there's nobody to explain the results to you, although the report they provide does show if you are outside the normal range of whatever they are testing.
http://www.lifeextension.com/vitamins-supplements/blood-test...
Looks like it's at stage two in the science hype cycle. http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?n=1174 I'll pay attention when a randomized control study shows that supplementing vitamin D lowers rates of autism.