The All-Encompassing Vitamin D Thread

In the US? Definitely. The average grocery store food quality here is garbage. And I've already said specifically what multis I endorse. They're cheap, they don't do any harm whatsoever, and ASSURE a person gets basic nutrients in a Country where 70% of the population eat like shit.

I definitely approve, despite what the magazine articles suggest.
 
DynamoGT said:
just my opinion and i know many will disagree but...

multi vitamins are shit don't waste your time, just buy the vitamin D3 and supp with that,

the reason i dont take multis is cause the ratio is never perfect on the label, it might say 200iu of D but sometimes you only get 50iu that is potent. plus their is wayyy to many vitamins in that small ass pill to have enough of each one.

multis are great for kids though.

I basically just get most of my nutrition from foods, and i take fish oil, vit d, probiotics, garlic pills, b complex, vitamin c, and NAC.

also its all about timing, dont take all of them at once....some people take all their vitamins for breakfast thats a bad move cause certain vitamins compete for absorbtion and your body can only digest so much at one time. spread your vitamins through out the day and search which ones are best to take together.
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Based on your posts in this thread and elsewhere, your nutritional knowledge seems to have come from a mixture of mainstream TV shows, newspapers, and "Men's" magazines, plus a dash of the medical world's conventional wisdom. I mean, you obviously haven't even thought about some of these things logically. The premises of your arguments are contradictory.

That's fine, and I say that without sarcasm. You represent the vast majority of Americans, and who can blame them? They have been misled by the media as well as the medical world.

I am merely suggesting that you be a bit more careful when dispensing advice.
 
Mr. Sinister said:
In the US? Definitely. The average grocery store food quality here is garbage. And I've already said specifically what multis I endorse. They're cheap, they don't do any harm whatsoever, and ASSURE a person gets basic nutrients in a Country where 70% of the population eat like shit.

I definitely approve, despite what the magazine articles suggest.
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what are the stuff you approve of? if you have a thread can you link me. thanks
 
Michael Holick is interviewed by Andrew W. Saul
DY NEWS: Yet it seems to be particularly difficult to kill yourself with vitamin D.



HOLICK: True. One man took 1,000,000 IU of vitamin D per day, orally, for six months. Of course, he had the symptoms of severe vitamin D intoxication.



DY NEWS: But he lived to tell the tale?



HOLICK: Yes. His treatment was hydration (lots of water), and no more vitamin D or sunshine for a while. He
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Thanks, OP. I started supplementing with D about a month ago, and this confirms most of the research I read before I began supplementing.
 
How much do you take XTrainer? I started taking 4,000 IU daily.
 
I was always under the impression that cold weather and the flu were not related. I thought that you mainly got sick from germs transfered from shaking hands or drinking off one another etc.
 
That's a myth. I always hear people blather on about that "cold doesn't get you sick, germs do." What they don't understand is that cold air moving to warm air is a magic carpet for bacteria. Hence, people getting pneumonia from sleeping under open windows during cold seasons and such. Germs, yes, bacteria, yes, but also has to be factored what moves those efficiently.
 
Scott McDonald said:
I was always under the impression that cold weather and the flu were not related. I thought that you mainly got sick from germs transfered from shaking hands or drinking off one another etc.
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There is also the fact that in winter time you spend more time in-doors and in environments with often poor air circulation. This, along with less sunlight so lowered vit d (if that is for sure true) would combine to increase the number of people catching the flu. It might not be the cold weather *causing* the flu, but there is a chain of compounding events.
 
Also has to be considered the influenza mutations.
 
Mr. Sinister said:
That's a myth. I always hear people blather on about that "cold doesn't get you sick, germs do." What they don't understand is that cold air moving to warm air is a magic carpet for bacteria. Hence, people getting pneumonia from sleeping under open windows during cold seasons and such. Germs, yes, bacteria, yes, but also has to be factored what moves those efficiently.
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I never understood that myth either. I always tell those people that germs etc. do cause you to get sick, but something about the cold HAS to facillitate it.

Strange thing with me, I can always tell a day or two in advance that I'm going to be getting the flu because I always get this weird back pain preceding it.
 
IDRISCKY said:
How much do you take XTrainer? I started taking 4,000 IU daily.
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2000 I.U. a day, from 2 1000 I.U. gel caps (which are supposedly more proven and reliable than tablets). Plus there's a bit in my multi.
 
Risk Of Colds And Flu May Be Increased By Vitamin D Deficiency

"The research team analyzed blood levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) - the best measure of vitamin D status - from almost 19,000 adult and adolescent NHANES III participants, selected to be representative of the overall U.S. population.

Study participants with the lowest vitamin D blood levels - less than 10 ng per milliliter of blood - were about 40 percent more likely to report having a recent respiratory infection than were those with vitamin D levels of 30 or higher."
 
Thanks for the update Mike. This has been a good thread, hopefully others who haven't read it will.
 
XTrainer said:
2000 I.U. a day, from 2 1000 I.U. gel caps (which are supposedly more proven and reliable than tablets). Plus there's a bit in my multi.
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Gel caps? Source on them being more effective? Where can I get some?

Also, thanks for the arab-american women one.

I live in California, never snows here, relatively sunny. Are there any studies of vitamin D deficiency done here, or other relativity sunny areas?
 
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