Let's talk vitamins!

[Sheepdog Gear]

Do you have a legitimate reason to believe that you're vitamin deficient? Some new data out there to suggest that taking vitamins if they aren't needed can actually be detrimental to your health.

No not really. But if most are low, then I guess there's a good chance I am. I should probably get a blood test though. Seems lately that I can't shut my mind off. It's ALWAYS planning, thinking, brainstorming. Be nice to have a switch or something. I've heard that vitamin D does help with stuff like that. Could be wrong though.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Seems lately that I can't shut my mind off. It's ALWAYS planning, thinking, brainstorming.

Go to yoga, and have some fish (tuna, eel or salmon) tonight, have a couple of eggs and a glass of milk for breakfast, and then have mushrooms on your pizza this weekend. It's sunny right now, go walk around for a few minutes. Heck, even Cheerios are loaded with vitamin D if you don't want to cook.

You'll be fine. Just up the exercise and you'll sleep better.

 

[atvdave]

I just chew two of the gummy multi vitamins a day. I get the rest from a few protein bars & shakes.

 

[mbills2223]

Food for thought:

Multivitamins are, at best, a waste of money, Johns Hopkins doctors say | Hub

 

[Sheepdog Gear]

Food for thought:

Multivitamins are, at best, a waste of money, Johns Hopkins doctors say | Hub

Just read it. Leave it to INGO to come in with a question, and leave more confused....

 

[hoosierdoc]

No not really. But if most are low, then I guess there's a good chance I am. I should probably get a blood test though. Seems lately that I can't shut my mind off. It's ALWAYS planning, thinking, brainstorming. Be nice to have a switch or something. I've heard that vitamin D does help with stuff like that. Could be wrong though.

"Deficient" means you are below the arbitrary level the medical community decided should be the low level of "normal" or "healthy", based on studies that may be completely inaccurate. Keep that in mind

 

[mbills2223]

Just read it. Leave it to INGO to come in with a question, and leave more confused....

Hehe...it happens. Take home message, in my opinion: Unless you're having symptoms of vitamin deficiency that can't be otherwise explained/corrected, I wouldn't worry about taking a daily vitamin supplement.

"Deficient" means you are below the arbitrary level the medical community decided should be the low level of "normal" or "healthy", based on studies that may be completely inaccurate. Keep that in mind

as usual

 

[Sheepdog Gear]

"Deficient" means you are below the arbitrary level the medical community decided should be the low level of "normal" or "healthy", based on studies that may be completely inaccurate. Keep that in mind

Ok. Vitamin D "insufficiency".... Possibly maybe.

 

[pudly]

Just read it. Leave it to INGO to come in with a question, and leave more confused....

Your confusion is very understandable. As scientific disciplines go, medicine does not have the best record out there. Bad/contradictory information and changes in direction have existed all through medical history and not all changes have been in a positive direction. The best you can do is read and make the best educated decisions possible.

Just as the latest example of bad medical advice out there: U.S. poised to withdraw longstanding warnings about cholesterol in diet - Chicago Tribune. Doctors have been purveying bad advice about dietary cholesterol for 40 years now and are finally going to stop.

Read and make your own decisions.

 

[printcraft]

Little known fact, beer is actually full of vitamin P.
Be cautious, too much can lead to excessive urination and not being able to remember where your pants are.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Little known fact, beer is actually full of vitamin P.

This is why I drink Zombie Dust. It has a D in the name of the beer, thus I obtain Vitamin D from the beer.

Trust me, I am a doctor.

 

[pudly]

Trust me, I am a doctor.

Or at least plays one on the Internet...

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Or at least plays one on the Internet...

Nope, really a doctor . . . . juris doctor, but doctor none the less.

 

[eldirector]

http://youtu.be/m0Eo7ju54aY

I do take a multivitamin, though.

 

[hoosierdoc]

Nope, really a doctor* . . . . juris doctor, but doctor none the less.

*This is why the asterisk was invented.

 

[bwframe]

FNC Dr. on the weekend medical show said 10 minutes in the sun with head exposed and sleeves rolled up will solve vitamin D deficiency. Confirmation?

 

[hoosierdoc]

FNC Dr. on the weekend medical show said 10 minutes in the sun with head exposed and sleeves rolled up will solve vitamin D deficiency. Confirmation?

You can probably generate enough, but it won't correlate with blood levels likely. it's a multi step process. I don't remember the storage mechanisms and what not.

http://www.health.harvard.edu/mens-health/vitamin-d-and-your-health

 

[mbills2223]

http://youtu.be/m0Eo7ju54aY

I do take a multivitamin, though.

Let it be known that Sheldon told a half truth there. B and C vitamins are the main contributors to expensive urine. A, D, E and K are fat soluble and, as a result, can be toxic. Not all that easy, but possible.

 

[mbills2223]

You can probably generate enough, but it won't correlate with blood levels likely. it's a multi step process. I don't remember the storage mechanisms and what not.

Vitamin D and your health: Breaking old rules, raising new hopes - Harvard Health

Very possible that I'm not remembering correctly, but I'm thinking it will get stored in the liver/fat (if levels dictate storage) just like dietary vitamin D. Guess I should probably look into that lol

 

[mbills2223]

Your confusion is very understandable. As scientific disciplines go, medicine does not have the best record out there. Bad/contradictory information and changes in direction have existed all through medical history and not all changes have been in a positive direction. The best you can do is read and make the best educated decisions possible.

Just as the latest example of bad medical advice out there: U.S. poised to withdraw longstanding warnings about cholesterol in diet - Chicago Tribune. Doctors have been purveying bad advice about dietary cholesterol for 40 years now and are finally going to stop.

Read and make your own decisions.

That's kind of the nature of any science, including, and perhaps especially, medicine. If recommendations and best practices aren't changing, it means we aren't exploring or discovering.