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Vitamin D Supplementation Improves Cognitive Function: 12-month RCT

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

almost no risks or real costs I worry a little about risk compensation, or whatever the equivalent is for diet. That is to say, if I feel like I'm all set on vitamins & minerals via pills, maybe I don't need to try so hard to eat my fruits & vegetables anymore...

We could fortify beer and Coca Cola with it. While it’ll be on the label, I bet 9/10 people can’t rhyme off what is fortified. (Around here, it’s salt, milk, flour and cereals that get fortified). Dunno where fluoride fits, but that too.

I'll add that even many non-dairy milks are fortified with Vitamin D - check the label.

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#74

Can mods ban submissions about vitamin D please? This forum has turned into infowars...

Do you find it helpful in life to operate with more, or less information?

With medical information on the internet, it’s a quality over quantity situation

Re: Vitamin D Supplementation Improves Cognitive Function: 12-month RCT

#75

There was a thread on here the other month about a chronically ill person who was accidentally overdosing on Vitamin D. I believe the conclusion of the piece was don't take copious amounts of Vitamin D and assume no side effects.

Check the amounts. ISTR the person that you mentioned was taking a substantially higher dosage than was tried in this study.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know different people have different risk tolerances, but there’s no way I would get on a plane during a pandemic if I don’t have to.

An airplane is probably a safer place to be than your local grocery store right now.

Am I the only one who finds it laughable to consider trusting the word of companies the likes of Delta, Southwest, and US Air? They seem fundamentally incompetent in pretty much every other aspect of anything that doesn't involve literally keeping the plane from crashing. Why would I believe the air filtration systems are even going to be operational, say nothing about effective when they are?

Re: Vitamin D Supplementation Improves Cognitive Function: 12-month RCT

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This sounds like an important study, but unfortunately it is effectively unpublished; neither Google Scholar nor Sci-Hub is able to find the full text. I'm not willing to trust it without reading the methodology section, and I'm not willing to pay $32 to read it. If any of the study authors happen to read this: pay close attention to how you publish, the journals will destroy all the value of your study in exchange f…

>2020 Nov 4. doi: 10.3233/JAD-200926. Online ahead of print.

Give it time.

Re: Vitamin D Supplementation Improves Cognitive Function: 12-month RCT

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Funny -- I was just digesting a competing study released recently[0] which showed little-to-no benefit from vitamin D, Omega 3 fatty acids, and exercise (either alone or in combinations). That study used 5X the daily vitamin D as this one. So I guess the jury's still out and I may choose to continue to err on the side of supplementing vitamin D. [0] https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2020/11/10/Study-Little-bene...

Or just get some sunshine! It's likely there are other benefits, besides just the vitamin D.

That doesn't work at the latitudes some of us live at.

https://new-wayland.com/blog/onward-to-100-nmol/

Re: Vitamin D Supplementation Improves Cognitive Function: 12-month RCT

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Why does it have to be supplementation?

Nutrition science is mostly unreliable because it is difficult to study, is very limited and progress is slow. The supplementation industry capitalizes on this ill-reported junk science.

For many years, vitamin D2 was sold as supplementation. Now it is well-known that D2 is not bioavailable to humans. Similarly, it is well-known now that even D3 is mostly useless without K2. Now, some D3 supplements come with K2. Who knows what we'll find in the future?

Even more ridiculous is iron. The iron in spinach is basically rust. It is not bioavailable to humans. Not only that, it induces oxidative stress in humans. Ever heard you need anti-oxidants? You do, if you've been eating spinach or cereal fortified with rust or supplements with such iron. Our body needs a specific organic compound of iron: heme. You can't just swallow a nail and get iron from it.

Vitamin A, D, E, K are all available in animal fat, in exactly the forms we can readily absorb. Animal fat has been a crucial part of diet for every human culture forever. There has never been a single exception... until recently when junk science and industry PR started selling seed oil as a "healthy" replacement. As a result, a large portion of population is deficient in these vital nutrients.

Seed oil is highly problematic because... it's seed. Not only does it have no nutrients, plants don't want you to eat their seed. That is the one thing plants don't want you to eat, more than anything else. That is why they pack it with the most dangerous toxins they can come up with.

Nutrition science is hard but nutrition is easy. Just eat what humans have been eating for thousands of years.

Re: Vitamin D Supplementation Improves Cognitive Function: 12-month RCT

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Why does it have to be supplementation? Nutrition science is mostly unreliable because it is difficult to study, is very limited and progress is slow. The supplementation industry capitalizes on this ill-reported junk science. For many years, vitamin D2 was sold as supplementation. Now it is well-known that D2 is not bioavailable to humans. Similarly, it is well-known now that even D3 is mostly useless without K2. No…

I read that there is 15 UI of vitamin D in a steak. You need 25 or 100 times that per day. It’s more likely that humans evolved to get their vitamin D from sunlight (although we also know that introduces cancer risk) than eating a whole cow every day. It seems like you’re trying to make the facts fit your preferred narrative re. meat consumption.
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