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I know this is an old post but I can't help myself...
Everybody dies, right? How can anybody be twice as likely to die?
I assume you are making a joke, but on the outside chance you're serious, the statement was that people with very low vitamin D levels were twice as likely to die within the next 8 years.
I know this is an old post but I can't help myself...
Everybody dies, right? How can anybody be twice as likely to die?
Twice as likely, within a certain set period of time. From the article:
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Patients with the lowest blood levels of vitamin D were about two times more likely to die from any cause during the next eight years than those with the highest levels, the study found.
Oops, didn't see the post right above mine which addressed this point. Yes, that would be quite thrilling if people with higher vitamin D levels were less likely to die at all.
Vitamin D (D3)is crucial . Check out the book "The Vitamin D Solution" by Michael F. Holick Ph.D, M.D. Absolutely eye opening. I currently take 5000 iu daily. Nurses I've spoken to take 4000-6000 iu daily.
I also go out in the sun unprotected based upon his book for a specified time frame. Otherwise, I use sunscreen.
Vitamin D (D3)is crucial . Check out the book "The Vitamin D Solution" by Michael F. Holick Ph.D, M.D. Absolutely eye opening. I currently take 5000 iu daily. Nurses I've spoken to take 4000-6000 iu daily.
I also go out in the sun unprotected based upon his book for a specified time frame. Otherwise, I use sunscreen.
It is important but without Calcium and K2, I would question its effectiveness. It is said that vitamin D and Calcium help strengthen bones amongst many other activities but without K2, the calcium is not as effective anyway. There is also a risk of vitamin D overdose from supplements because the body doesn't know how much it is getting and unlike sources from the sun, doesn't know ''when to stop''.
I will take a look at the book you mentioned, thanks.
I think what will all need to remember is that Vitamin D is NOT a vitamin, it's a HORMONE. The majority of doctor's typically neglect to test both Vitamin D levels, they check Vitamin D 25, which is the storage hormone but not Vit D 1,25 which is the active hormone. Just some extra information to consider.
As a dental surgical assistant I see more and more women (50s +) with very bad calcium deposits on their teeth. For some reasons they think the more you take calcium supplements the better.... Well, it is not ...Excess calcium deposits on teeth and I assume in other parts of the body too. Calcium needs to be taken with caution.
As a dental surgical assistant I see more and more women (50s +) with very bad calcium deposits on their teeth. For some reasons they think the more you take calcium supplements the better.... Well, it is not ...Excess calcium deposits on teeth and I assume in other parts of the body too. Calcium needs to be taken with caution.
Calcium also increases the risk for heart attack and stroke, kidney problems can also be a result of too much calcium.
I assume you are making a joke, but on the outside chance you're serious, the statement was that people with very low vitamin D levels were twice as likely to die within the next 8 years.
And yet - 100% of all people who have had low vitamin D levels for 9 years, have completely proven that statistic false.
(74% of all statistics are bad, including this one)
I was shocked when I found how deficient I was in 2006. I was feeling a lowness at that time and my sister was talking about D3 since she deals with MS and the importance of D3 and she was making sure her daughter was up on D3.
I had been a sun person all my life until about 53 which I just could not take the sun as I did for most of my life prior and also maybe due to cancer scare and not wanting to push the skin cancer chances.. All those years in a lot of sun I never had depression, When I came in from the sun the depression hit me..I can put it all together now. So from getting thyroid supported and getting Vit D tank filled, no more depression.
Calcium also increases the risk for heart attack and stroke, kidney problems can also be a result of too much calcium.
I agree and one needs to be up on their magnesium, calcium is pushed too much and there is newer research that mag and Vit D3 and now K2 are the most important.
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