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If you're interested in getting more Vitamin D from your diet:

Natural Vitamin D Content in Animal Products

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3941824/

The Catholics were right. Eat fish on Fridays

Also, Carlson Labs is the highest rated Vitamin D supplement on LabDoor: https://labdoor.com/review/carlson-labs-vitamin-d3

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If you want to go the vegetarian option, shiitake mushrooms are good: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6213178/. Interestingly, the mushroom's D content is based upon how much exposure they have to UV.

Shameless plug -- I wrote an article about growing them at home, it's not too hard. We eat a lot of them: https://www.mushroom.guide

Do you have a reference to Vit D content in mushrooms and their exposure to UV? Pretty cool fact!

DOI 10.1021/jf073398s @ sci-hub (not sure what the rules are about linking directly from here)

Wow! Thank you!

You can use https://cronometer.com/ to track your micronutrients

An easy way to get more (beef) liver is to grind it, real cold, in your food processor and add to ground beef. At about 20% you can't taste it

Wow, tuna has 30000 ug/kg, cool paper

Also has mercury. Alright in moderation, probably don’t make it a big part of your diet.

Turns out the Selenium in fish neutralizes the Mercury

http://net-effects.und.edu/pdfs/Selenium-Mercury.pdf

I was not aware of the mitigating effect of excess selenium vs. mercury content. Thanks for sharing this!

tuna liver, that is. yum!

Never tried fish liver. Is it anything like livers of mammals an birds?

that was a sarcastic "yum". I haven't tried it, but might try it out if I can find some

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