vit d?

Mojisola

Person_one wrote: »

Yep, that's why you have to get out and about in the summer months, to store enough to get through the dark winter.

If you're in the UK, it's unlikely that you'll make enough Vit D in the summer to last all year. This is an old article but I think the facts are still good - https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsweek/time-for-more-vitamin-d.htm
"Except during the summer months, the skin makes little if any vitamin D from the sun at latitudes above 37 degrees north (in the United States, the shaded region in the map) or below 37 degrees south of the equator. People who live in these areas are at relatively greater risk for vitamin D deficiency."

Everywhere in the UK is above the 50 degrees line - think Canada rather than the USA.

https://www.vitamindcouncil.org/about-vitamin-d/how-do-i-get-the-vitamin-d-my-body-needs/
"If you live even further north, like in Edmonton, Canada, you can’t produce vitamin D from October through April. These times are even longer (by a month or two) if you’re skin type is darker."
Edmonton is roughly level with Sunderland in the UK.

mazza111

Vit D is also essential for absorbing calcium. Despite the dd drinking loads of milk during her fracture months, she wasn't absorbing it due to her vit d levels being low and had to go onto a combo tablet to get her high enough to start healing.

annie_d

I take 20,000 units a day

Mojisola

mazza111 wrote: »

Vit D is also essential for absorbing calcium. Despite the dd drinking loads of milk during her fracture months, she wasn't absorbing it due to her vit d levels being low and had to go onto a combo tablet to get her high enough to start healing.

My Mum's calcium tablets from the GP had Vit D in them to help with absorbing the calcium.

System

Yes, a lot of them work in combination with each other: Zinc + Vitamin C, Iron also needs vitamin C, Calcium needs Vitamin D, etc

victory

I take vit d tablet every day, found in a blood test to be low:D

Bennifred

Mojisola wrote: »

If you're in the UK, it's unlikely that you'll make enough Vit D in the summer to last all year. This is an old article but I think the facts are still good - https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsweek/time-for-more-vitamin-d.htm
"Except during the summer months, the skin makes little if any vitamin D from the sun at latitudes above 37 degrees north (in the United States, the shaded region in the map) or below 37 degrees south of the equator. People who live in these areas are at relatively greater risk for vitamin D deficiency."

Everywhere in the UK is above the 50 degrees line - think Canada rather than the USA.

https://www.vitamindcouncil.org/about-vitamin-d/how-do-i-get-the-vitamin-d-my-body-needs/
"If you live even further north, like in Edmonton, Canada, you can’t produce vitamin D from October through April. These times are even longer (by a month or two) if you’re skin type is darker."
Edmonton is roughly level with Sunderland in the UK.

There is a very strong correlation between distance from the equator and the incidence of multiple sclerosis, which is suspected to be connected with vitamin D status. I suspect that in the future there will be many other conditions confirmed as being connected with low vitamin D status (not only in individuals, but in their offspring) - there is lots of research being carried out currently.

System

Bennifred wrote: »

There is a very strong correlation between distance from the equator and the incidence of multiple sclerosis, which is suspected to be connected with vitamin D status. I suspect that in the future there will be many other conditions confirmed as being connected with low vitamin D status (not only in individuals, but in their offspring) - there is lots of research being carried out currently.

That's interesting. I knew MS was almost unheard of in hotter climates, are they theorising it might be linked to low vitamin D now?

fluffnutter

rabialiones wrote: »

just starting to get a bit concerned about why most people i know have been prescribed vit d tabs. over past few years.


is there something fishy going on?????

'Most people' you know have been prescribed vitamin D tablets? Really? I suspect a couple have. For various perfectly sensible reasons, e.g. they're pregnant or breastfeeding, they rarely go out or they live in the north (where it's always dark apparently) etc. etc.

Either that or yes, there's something incredibly fishy going on - basically the sun's lost 50% of its power in the last decade but scientists aren't letting on just in case we all panic.

fluffnutter

Bennifred wrote: »

There is a very strong correlation between distance from the equator and the incidence of multiple sclerosis, which is suspected to be connected with vitamin D status.

avogadro wrote: »

That's interesting. I knew MS was almost unheard of in hotter climates, are they theorising it might be linked to low vitamin D now?

Or perhaps it's simply that those with northern European heritage are more likely to carry the faulty genes that increase the chances of developing it.

It's a bit like saying sickle cell anaemia is far more likely the closer to the equator you live, therefore it's to do with high levels of vitamin D, when it's actually to do with genetic groups.

I don't know, I'm just suggesting that there may be other reasons for the correlation - Vitamin D may not be causal in the higher incidence of MS away from the equator.