Vitamin D supplements

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Nebulous

Guru
Location
Aberdeen
I'm currently working in the NHS, have struggled the last two winters, and am finding increasing numbers of people around me are taking vitamin D.

It is difficult to get in your diet, although I regularly eat mushrooms and oily fish, both of which are contain some. As temperate creatures living in a climate which is unsuitable for us, we all need to move further South.

I cracked just before Christmas and bought some. We're both taking a tablet every day. Vitamin D tablets can cause some problems and need to be taken with food. So far it seems okay, I've perked up a bit, but its hard to separate the vitamin D out from everything else.
 

Ming the Merciless

There is no mercy
Location
Inside my skull
According to NHS page

In the UK, sunlight doesn't contain enough UVB radiation in winter (October to early March) for our skin to be able to make vitamin D.

During these months, we rely on getting our vitamin D from food sources (including fortified foods) and supplements.

Using sunbeds isn't a recommended way of making vitamin D.
 

PaulSB

Squire
It's always interesting when the world catches up. We've taken 1000 iu/day for 12-15 years. Vitamin D is important to pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers, the research is well established. Vitamin D supplements are especially important to Asian women who wear traditional dress as they don't have sufficient exposure to the sun at any time.

Says the man who's married to an infant feeding specialist!!
 

welsh dragon

Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
I read somewhere that vitamin D could help regarding Covid19. Not sure but I think it was in a newspaper.

I take vitamin D every day.
 

Ajax Bay

Guru
Location
East Devon
4000IU with a tad of K2 cost £10 for 180 13 months ago.
I did some research having decided to supplement, and these were the best around (and far cheaper than from (say) Tesco).
I've just started my third bottle (daily for 380 days minus fails). Price has come down:
https://www.fruugo.co.uk/vitamin-d3...nes-400-premium-tablets/p-53344461-113382285?
to £12 for 400.
Don't muck around with tiny doses: just get 4000IU down your neck daily, best with food with some constituent fat to aid absorption.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5g9AVqRsjo
 
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presta

Guru
Vitamin D's one of those things where nobody's quite sure exactly what constitutes a deficiency
These guidelines from the Endocrine Society are the reference that the NHS cite for the limits quoted on the blood test results.
The normal range they're recommending is 40-250nmol/L, with deficient given as <30nmol/L.
Mine was 22nmol/L.
 
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