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Programmers Must Take Vitamin D
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Re: Programmers Must Take Vitamin D
#32I supplement with 5000iu per day, and check my blood levels regularly. Even with supplementation far exceeding governmental recommendations, My blood levels have never exceeded 70 ng/mL, which is well within the health range of 30 - 100 ng/mL.
My advice is to get yourself tested, supplement, and continue testing. http://wellnessfx.com is a great service for minimum effort monitoring. Alternatively you can use cash-based services like this to order easily and without a doctor: http://www.mdlabtests.com/Vitamin-Tests/081950-Vitamin-D-25-...
Re: Programmers Must Take Vitamin D
#33Well... I'm a web developer, not a "real" programmer, and I don't code at night. I did until I got married, but no longer. Now that I have a kid, it's suicide to do it more than once a week.
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#34I actually have to avoid Vitamin D. I have a disorder (Hypercalcaemia) that causes me to build up calcium in my blood. Vitamin D can rapidly improve the body's ability to absorb calcium (hence Vitamin D enriched milk). Too much calcium in your blood can lead to various physical nervous disorders (I get facial ticks in the muscles around my eyes) but can also result in various psychologically similar problems like dep…
Have you read much about vitamins K2 and A with reference to your condition? Supplementation or otherwise insuring adequate intake of K2/A might be of benefit for you in reducing vit D toxicity among other things.
These papers are good references:
Re: Programmers Must Take Vitamin D
#35I have a better idea. Go outside. I have a garden. I have a deck. I have two kids who I take to the pool regularly. I have a lawn that needs maintenance. I like to go outside. Another thing. I work during the day. Problem solved.
But for the love of $DEITY, please wear adequate sun protection. At the very least that means a hat and sunscreen, but you probably want to be using long sleeved clothing and sunglasses if you're outside for an extended period of time. Vitamin D deficiency is bad, but skin cancer is worse.
"If you're fair skinned, experts say going outside for 10 minutes in the midday sun—in shorts and a tank top with no sunscreen—will give you enough radiation to produce about 10,000 international units of the vitamin."
You don't need a lot of sun exposure to get your body to produce enough vitamin D.
Re: Programmers Must Take Vitamin D
#36I supplement with 5000iu per day, and check my blood levels regularly. Even with supplementation far exceeding governmental recommendations, My blood levels have never exceeded 70 ng/mL, which is well within the health range of 30 - 100 ng/mL. My advice is to get yourself tested, supplement, and continue testing. http://wellnessfx.com is a great service for minimum effort monitoring. Alternatively you can use cash-ba…
I cannot wait for Wellness FX to come to Canada.
Here doctors look at you funny if you want to track biomarkers. "You're young, problems don't occur until you get old". As if they've never heard of prevention.
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#37This is missing something, but I can't put my finger on it.
Oh yeah: citations.
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#38That is doctoring on the symptom, not the cause.
Go outside. You do not only need Vitamin D, you also need fresh air, green and exercise. You can not get this with pills.
In the long run you save time, because of longer life (and hacking) and reduced illness (better hacking).
Re: Programmers Must Take Vitamin D
#39I supplement with 5000iu per day, and check my blood levels regularly. Even with supplementation far exceeding governmental recommendations, My blood levels have never exceeded 70 ng/mL, which is well within the health range of 30 - 100 ng/mL. My advice is to get yourself tested, supplement, and continue testing. http://wellnessfx.com is a great service for minimum effort monitoring. Alternatively you can use cash-ba…
I cannot wait for Wellness FX to come to Canada. Here doctors look at you funny if you want to track biomarkers. "You're young, problems don't occur until you get old". As if they've never heard of prevention.
Apparently they cost $199, and are only available in a few states right now. Not all of the USA.
With all health care free of charge in Canada, I think it will be a while yet before they cross the border unfortunately.
I have been for many physicals but have never had my blood checked for levels of anything really.
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#40This is missing something, but I can't put my finger on it. Oh yeah: citations.
This is another anecdote point: my mom is a nutritional biochemist who has done research on vitamins for much of her life. She always tells me to take Vitamin D and that nearly everyone is deficient because we don't go outside enough (and live in high latitudes).
Not science, but the author is on to something, I think. If you doubt it, get your blood tested and see what your doctor says. If you don't want to get tested, take a conservative supplement.