Regular use of Vitamin D supplement is associated with fewer melanoma cases
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Regular use of Vitamin D supplement is associated with fewer melanoma cases
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Re: Regular use of Vitamin D supplement is associated with fewer melanoma cases
#2Nice to see more benefits of Vitamin D. Highly recommend the supplement for tech workers who spend a lot of time indoors. I take 125mcg/5000IU a day when I wake up and it's subtle, but I just feel a little better with it. Sports Research is a good brand (not affiliated).
Nothing better than getting some real sun though, especially in the morning.
Re: Regular use of Vitamin D supplement is associated with fewer melanoma cases
#3People who avoid the sun more likely to take vitamin D supplements?
Re: Regular use of Vitamin D supplement is associated with fewer melanoma cases
#4Unfortunately I cannot get full article access, but from the abstract it sounds like they did not control for actual sun exposure.
It would seem to me that those who self medicate with vitamin D are those who know they do not get sufficient sun exposure, and would necessarily also be those at reduced risk of melanoma.
Re: Regular use of Vitamin D supplement is associated with fewer melanoma cases
#5People who avoid the sun more likely to take vitamin D supplements?
This is the most plausible reason.
Re: Regular use of Vitamin D supplement is associated with fewer melanoma cases
#6I was told recently that US Doctors have lost their license over this topic; no idea if that is true.
Re: Regular use of Vitamin D supplement is associated with fewer melanoma cases
#7Nice to see more benefits of Vitamin D. Highly recommend the supplement for tech workers who spend a lot of time indoors. I take 125mcg/5000IU a day when I wake up and it's subtle, but I just feel a little better with it. Sports Research is a good brand (not affiliated). Nothing better than getting some real sun though, especially in the morning.
A lot of people in the first world are heavily deficient in vitamin D, and deficiency is linked to a whole host of health issues and vulnerabilities. It's dirt cheap and essentially completely safe below toxicity levels (which are quite difficult to hit -
I take 10,000 IU daily, and even with that my bloodwork shows me in the lower quartile of the normal range).
Its metabolite is a steroidal hormone, so it's pretty obvious why it would be beneficial for anti-inflammatory purposes, but it also modulates some key cardiovascular gene expression, too.
Re: Regular use of Vitamin D supplement is associated with fewer melanoma cases
#8People who avoid the sun more likely to take vitamin D supplements?
Yeah… doctors recommend supplementing vitamin D if you don’t get much sun. This almost feels comedic.
Re: Regular use of Vitamin D supplement is associated with fewer melanoma cases
#9Nice to see more benefits of Vitamin D. Highly recommend the supplement for tech workers who spend a lot of time indoors. I take 125mcg/5000IU a day when I wake up and it's subtle, but I just feel a little better with it. Sports Research is a good brand (not affiliated). Nothing better than getting some real sun though, especially in the morning.
I second the Sports Research brand it's my favorite based on their obvious careful choice of fillers.
Anyway, yes the full spectrum of the sun provides much more, not only UV for vitamin D but the red/infrared part of the spectrum which is great for cellular energy.
Re: Regular use of Vitamin D supplement is associated with fewer melanoma cases
#10I can only read the abstract, but this doesn't look very solid at all. It's a self-reported non-randomized study, and an absurdly large number of participants has had some type of skin cancer (184 out of 276). This makes the results extremely susceptible to selection bias.