Vitamin D dosing myths

Linda’s BRAVO to yet another conventional doctors who sees the light!! This excites me….Sorry but any doctor that tells you to restrict your VitD, I would say RUN FORREST RUN!! I have battled (5) Cancers, but at the time I wasn’t paying attention to my VitD levels….it finally bit me in the back….It has taken me a few years of massive amounts of D to get my levels in a safe margin. I now take 10,000 to 15,000 units daily. to maintain safe levels……

Doc Gurley is RIGHT ON….she lists 6 VitD myths….read and learn…..

Regards,
Linda

Full article: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/gurley/detail?entry_id=54957

Vitamin D dose myths – 6 fun factoids
As the mountain of vitamin D research (showing its importance) grows to Everest heights, you may be wondering about some statements that are thrown around as “truth.” Here are some fun vitamin D myths to pass along (by email, twitter or facebook) to friends, family and loved ones, because, when it comes to vitamin D, you want to get your dose (even of information) JUST RIGHT:

1) Just go out in the sun, already. That will fix everyone’s vitamin D levels. Right? Is it true that you can get enough vitamin D from the sun? Um, well, that depends on who “you” is. For example, our media tends to assume we’re all Nicole Kidman pale – hence the widely cited recommendations that 10-15 minutes of daily sun can suffice. If you’re darkly pigmented (whatever your ethnic background), studies show that, if you live north of L.A., you would need to be out, at minimum, from November to May, fully naked, for TWO SOLID HOURS at midday to get enough vitamin D. Yikes…talk about a recommendation being far off the mark! For many working, non-Nicole-Kidman Americans, it would be actually physically impossible to get enough vitamin D, using the sun only.

More on Vitamin D:

Saturday, January 9, 2010

As recently as a decade ago, vitamin D was mostly thought of as a helper-nutrient – it allowed the body to absorb and use calcium for strong bones. With a diet of fortified foods and a little bit of sunshine every day, most people got plenty of it.

But that was years ago. Today, research suggests that vitamin D does much more than help build strong bones, and the findings come at a time when a high number of people are no longer getting enough of the nutrient, doctors say.

From: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/09/MN8T1BEG4V.DTL&type=health&tsp=1