Heya everyone, merry xmas!
I have just started (today) taking vitamin d tablets, anyone else take them? OMG I never realised how much energy you can get from one tiny tablet. I am like a meercat on steroids haha...
Anyone else experienced good vibes from tablets?
I had to start taking them back in September time as well as B12, calcium and potassium as my levels came back low due to a buggered parathyroid.
Unfortunately mine just take my levels back to normal so not quite a meerkat on steroids but I don't need a nap after work everyday which is great!
"Anyone else experienced good vibes from tablets?"
Not sure this is a safe question to ask 🤣🤣
Mercia Storm said
I had to start taking them back in September time as well as B12, calcium and potassium as my levels came back low due to a buggered parathyroid.
Unfortunately mine just take my levels back to normal so not quite a meerkat on steroids but I don't need a nap after work everyday which is great!
Heya Mercia, ah that's good you don't have to have a nap after work everyday, they seem to be good for your body :-)
Incandescent Images said
"Anyone else experienced good vibes from tablets?"
Not sure this is a safe question to ask 🤣🤣
HAHA I am curious now
It’s a good idea to also take vitamin K2 with vitamin D, vitamin D aids calcium absorption and the K2 keeps calcium in the bones.
Lightingman said
It’s a good idea to also take vitamin K2 with vitamin D, vitamin D aids calcium absorption and the K2 keeps calcium in the bones.
ah ok thank you :-) will do
Natural vitamin D we get from the sun but very crucial for immune system and bones strengthen too. I take them tabs though quite regularly, Very effective.
Natural vitamin D we get from the sun but very crucial for immune system and bones strengthen too. I take them tabs though quite regularly, Very effective.
ow cool, i am on day one so hope i can say the same haha, i do feel really happy after taking 1, really weird
Lightingman said
It’s a good idea to also take vitamin K2 with vitamin D, vitamin D aids calcium absorption and the K2 keeps calcium in the bones.
K is for the clotting cascade. It regulates itself, but as long as one has enough, more seems unlikely to help. Eat plants, and leave them in your colon for a while, and K should be sorted.
Natural vitamin D we get from the sun but very crucial for immune system and bones strengthen too. I take them tabs though quite regularly, Very effective.
D is essential for bones, and you can stand outside naked all day* in this season and you still won't make any, alas.
In Summer in England a quarter of an hour after coffee with your sleeves rolled up will give you your daily requirement and some spare. Probably twice as long if you've applied sunblock twice and spread it well not long before. I'm unconvinced it does much for the immune system, provided you are not rickety, and given the fiendish powers of auto-destruction the immune system - the adaptive one at least - demonstrates on some of us, I'd suggest that poking it to make it more active is not entirely wise. The old saying "let sleeping dogs lie" fails to cover it, try "let sleeping bears covered in porcupine quills and with the venomous thigh-spurs of a randy Platypus and a hangover lie".
Really, a touch of Vit D each winter day is almost certainly good for your bones and shouldn't give you kidney stones, and eating a fish finger each day as well won't be bad.
For many generations humans worried about eating, then for more they were interested in how much grit there was in what they ate, and now we are into the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy phase of "where shall we have lunch?" It isn't the End of the Universe if you have a little extra of the definite vitamins, they are all very cheap, but retain scepticism.
* Occupationally relevant to some here perhaps
MidgePhoto said
Lightingman said
It’s a good idea to also take vitamin K2 with vitamin D, vitamin D aids calcium absorption and the K2 keeps calcium in the bones.
K is for the clotting cascade. It regulates itself, but as long as one has enough, more seems unlikely to help. Eat plants, and leave them in your colon for a while, and K should be sorted.
Natural vitamin D we get from the sun but very crucial for immune system and bones strengthen too. I take them tabs though quite regularly, Very effective.
D is essential for bones, and you can stand outside naked all day* in this season and you still won't make any, alas.In Summer in England a quarter of an hour after coffee with your sleeves rolled up will give you your daily requirement and some spare. Probably twice as long if you've applied sunblock twice and spread it well not long before. I'm unconvinced it does much for the immune system, provided you are not rickety, and given the fiendish powers of auto-destruction the immune system - the adaptive one at least - demonstrates on some of us, I'd suggest that poking it to make it more active is not entirely wise. The old saying "let sleeping dogs lie" fails to cover it, try "let sleeping bears covered in porcupine quills and with the venomous thigh-spurs of a randy Platypus and a hangover lie".
Really, a touch of Vit D each winter day is almost certainly good for your bones and shouldn't give you kidney stones, and eating a fish finger each day as well won't be bad.
For many generations humans worried about eating, then for more they were interested in how much grit there was in what they ate, and now we are into the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy phase of "where shall we have lunch?" It isn't the End of the Universe if you have a little extra of the definite vitamins, they are all very cheap, but retain scepticism.
* Occupationally relevant to some here perhaps
okie dokes
MidgePhoto said
Lightingman said
It’s a good idea to also take vitamin K2 with vitamin D, vitamin D aids calcium absorption and the K2 keeps calcium in the bones.
K is for the clotting cascade. It regulates itself, but as long as one has enough, more seems unlikely to help. Eat plants, and leave them in your colon for a while, and K should be sorted.
Natural vitamin D we get from the sun but very crucial for immune system and bones strengthen too. I take them tabs though quite regularly, Very effective.
D is essential for bones, and you can stand outside naked all day* in this season and you still won't make any, alas.In Summer in England a quarter of an hour after coffee with your sleeves rolled up will give you your daily requirement and some spare. Probably twice as long if you've applied sunblock twice and spread it well not long before. I'm unconvinced it does much for the immune system, provided you are not rickety, and given the fiendish powers of auto-destruction the immune system - the adaptive one at least - demonstrates on some of us, I'd suggest that poking it to make it more active is not entirely wise. The old saying "let sleeping dogs lie" fails to cover it, try "let sleeping bears covered in porcupine quills and with the venomous thigh-spurs of a randy Platypus and a hangover lie".
Really, a touch of Vit D each winter day is almost certainly good for your bones and shouldn't give you kidney stones, and eating a fish finger each day as well won't be bad.
For many generations humans worried about eating, then for more they were interested in how much grit there was in what they ate, and now we are into the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy phase of "where shall we have lunch?" It isn't the End of the Universe if you have a little extra of the definite vitamins, they are all very cheap, but retain scepticism.
* Occupationally relevant to some here perhaps
okie dokes
Also, I take a Vit D tablet per day during the darker months.
(Winter sunshine has travelled further through the atmosphere, unless you are skiing, and had the UV filtered out of it. Geometry.)
Gah vitamin D tablets unfortunately increase my heart arrhythmia but I seem to manage alright on vitamin D spray. I take an extra spray every day 😏
Haven't had my levels tested for a while but they seemed to have creeped from a very stable 50 for many years (too low) to 65 last time they were done so you have to hope the spray is helping a little.
Tbf, the only thing that's helped me energy wise is getting my T3 and T4 sorted by going on levothyroxine as I have some sort of weird thyroid conversion problem going on (normal TSH but low T3 and T4) and getting on HRT (which is fabulous).
Everything else hasn't done a huge amount of anything except hydrocortisone but couldn't stay on that long term.
K and K2 is looking more interesting.
This is worth reading, although the two main points in it are that Americans don't eat enough leafy greens nowadays, and that if you have enough Vit K you probably don't need to worry much about (K1/2 or) not enough getting to your bones etc - but that given the first point a bit extra will do no harm.
There's also an awful lot of crap on the Internet. Who knew?
Margo Jost said
Gah vitamin D tablets unfortunately increase my heart arrhythmia but I seem to manage alright on vitamin D spray. I ,..
Tbf, the only thing that's helped me energy wise is getting my T3 and T4 sorted by going on levothyroxine ...
I wouldn't give an opinion, but excess Thyroxine is a very large cause of Atrial Fibrillation, a very common arrhythmia.
Despite rumours on the early Web, I'm no expert on Thyroids, but it is widely reckoned that a low/very low TSH indicates the Pituitary is happy about the amount of T3/4 circulating. The distribution of TSH levels in people not declared ill is mostly at the lower end, with a long thin tail upward. Last time I looked the argument among prescribers and Endocrinologists about how low to drive TSH continued.
Some very odd stories were put about a couple of decades ago about coincident peripheral failure of conversion, mostly traced back to Americans who wanted dried pig thyroid (mixed T4/T3 as in the gland) rather than Thyroxine T4 tablets.
Taking T4 as a weekly dose produces less variation in effect than one would expect, whereas T3 has a short half life, and is suggested as a 3 times per day, fairly closely timed, dosage. I suppose the pig stuff (Armour Thyroid ®™) would fall in between.
Anyway, no longer my problem. Not my circus, as the Poles say...
