The Big Vitamin D Mistake
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The Big Vitamin D Mistake
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#2what is this saying in plain english? That we all need to take vitamin D supplements?
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#3what is this saying in plain english? That we all need to take vitamin D supplements?
or better, just spend more time outside.
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#4what is this saying in plain english? That we all need to take vitamin D supplements?
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#5what is this saying in plain english? That we all need to take vitamin D supplements?
Something like 10x the RDA
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#6what is this saying in plain english? That we all need to take vitamin D supplements?
Yes, this is exactly what the article says. In many countries, children under the age of 1 get supplements, but not after
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#7what is this saying in plain english? That we all need to take vitamin D supplements?
The current RDA (recommended daily allowance) for Vitamin D is 600 IU. This paper is basically saying that number should be 6000 IU.
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#8what is this saying in plain english? That we all need to take vitamin D supplements?
or better, just spend more time outside.
If you wear clothes and/or aren't near the equator it's not gonna make a big enough of a difference. Also you're gonna have to balance that with negative sun exposure. Salmon is probably a top vitamin d source, but supplements are probably the cheapest way to pack it in.
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#9what is this saying in plain english? That we all need to take vitamin D supplements?
Basically yes. I didn't read the paper, but the abstract says that our current recommendations were designed to get us past a threshold of 50 (nmol/L, but the units aren't that important).
But they claim that we should be aiming to get above 75, and it would be best if we could get above 100. So drink more fortified milk.
Edit: oops, looks like I read it wrong. 50 nmol/L isn't the threshold the current RDA gets us to, it's way lower than that.
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#10what is this saying in plain english? That we all need to take vitamin D supplements?
Summary is adults need at least 8000 IU of Vitamin D per day.
This confirm what I have suspected since almost a decade. I have been taking 5k Vitamin D per day since one of my cousin had serious health issues because of low vitamin D for 3 years and as soon as she started having 5k IU per day, they disappeared within a month.