https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vitamins-and-minerals/vitamin-...
It's particularly important if you have dark skin and live in the northern hemisphere. Several of my family were diagnosed with Vitamin D deficiency and had a tangible increase in quality of life from supplements.
Can you share link if you have it? I would love to something from an authority like NHS about what vitamins are worthwhile.
There are links to other vitamins from there, but those pages all say you should be able to get all you need from a balanced diet.
I need to look for docs around this, but the message in the US (not sure about UK) is usually not that stark. Doctors usually say - "if you are eating a balanced diet, you dont need any supplements except Vitamin D".
Studies are emerging, so time will tell I guess.
The results are negative: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30415629/
What you see here is that combing through the data to see wether anything shows a publishable correlation. It’s better than a correlation in the general population, but can be also spurious.
Here is the article: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35082139/ It’s important to observe that “omega 3 fatty acid supplementation with or without vitamin D reduced the autoimmune disease rate by 15% (not statistically significant)”. If vitamin D reduced autoimmune diseases you would expect omega 3 + vitamin D to have similar results than just vitamin D
There are two endpoints measured, and you chose to quote the statistically insignificant result, rather than the significant one. Though I agree, p-hacking is always an issue. OTOH, plenty of biological discoveries come from unintended observations. As long as they replicate, nothing's off limits -- you wouldn't disbelieve penicillin because it wasn't discovered in a pre-registered trial.
> If vitamin D reduced autoimmune diseases you would expect omega 3 + vitamin D to have similar results than just vitamin D
It did. D only hazard ratio: .68, D+omega3 hazard ratio .69
left hand, well same thing. i would get a gash in the palm and it would stay an open wound for 2-3 years, get better and then again on its own.
for the past 6-9 years the hands had been pretty much fine but this year i am seeing signs for skin getting "patches" like you get if you just burn the top skin layer, just a tad bit dark. it gets scratchy very easily and so is the urge.
for the first time in my life my right hand palm is showing "patches" which is totally new to me.
i was diagnosed with "hyperhidrosis" back in 2012, got that aluminum chloride or whatever antiperspirant but that never worked. it made my skin super dry and the base problem got worse with it...
they had told me that this is an autoimmune disease so "you gotta weather it out"...
i will definitely try VitD because improvement in my hands and feet would definitely be a quality of life improvement for me personally. its been to a point i have a slight tilt in my left foot because of all the tip toe i had to walk for years because i could not put my heel down in school/road/etc ...
There are now plenty of commercial machines available
Our Doctor diagnosed Vitamin D deficiency.
Post supplementation (and D levels returning to normal), sick far less often with lower severity + increase in energy levels [to normal]
EDIT: Clarified energy increase is to normal.
I've been so deficient that I literally hurt. I had trouble sleeping due to the back/neck pain and had to take breaks while cooking food. Supplements took care of the pain and the extreme lack of energy, but I've never been "energetic".
The best way to describe this, really, is that if I had taken supplements before, I'd have prevented undue lethargy and tiredness. What actually made me get sick less often was not working with the public nor with children, and I never really had trouble shaking off disease when I did get sick. (I ended up deficient due to moving to a northern climate).
At best, supplements help me keep a level of normal.
When I said 'lethargic'->'increase in energy levels', I didn't mean increase above the baseline. I meant 'lethargic'->'normal'.
I'm in Denmark. And health authorities have started recommending everyone to take supplements doing winter. And elderly all year around.
supplements will destroy your liver
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/vitamin-d2-vs-d3#TOC_TI...
1- mushrooms that have been exposed to ultraviolet light (11Trusted Source)
2- Take fish oil supplements such as cod liver oil
3- Eat fatty fish twice a week (12Trusted Source)
4- Choose milk or orange juice that’s been fortified with vitamin D
5- Eat some eggs and butter (13Trusted Source)
6- Spend at least half an hour in the sun daily, if possible
My thoughts on their recco:
Option 6 is the typical US doctor prescription before vitamin supplements and seems the most reasonable, though depends on your location.
Options 3 and 5 are legit options and worth noting. Not sure if the portion sizes would be a financial detriment to many though.
Option 2 and 4 essentially seem like taking Vitamin D supplements.
Option 1 is huh? Who has a UV gun for mushrooms? Do stores do this automatically?
Also it’s hard to expose skin to sun zero temperature.
I’m guessing northern ancestors ate organ meat for supplements in the past.
I read that years ago it's in my brain but no idea where it comes from.
But preferred when it is possible.
Also there are disintegrating strips/films. There’s one for Mecobalamin at least, that I was prescribed.