Severe VITAMIN D Deficiency....!!!!

[fourandsixpants]

....picked up by my new Dr. On supplements now, got to have a bone density test next time I see him.

I have been so careful to eat right, plenty of vit B rich foods and A and C and E etc. I regularly eat fresh fish and canned fish like sardines and eat egg yolks.BUT I think my problem was that I have been sun 'shy' for many years as have pale skin and tried to avoid sunburn/skin cancer etc.

Darker pigmented people and elderly need to stay in sun longer than fair skinned people to get the vit D.

According to Dr G I should be getting 6 mins in the sun ev day in summer and 28 minutes or so, ev day in winter.

Chemist girls told me that they are seeing a lot of women and young teen girls with same .....getting Vit D supplements. Was told by pathology girl that Vit D oil is better absorbed by our bodies than in capsule form but have caps as prescribed

Is this something recent that is being discovered in 'plague' proportions? Anyone know?

Apparently signs and symptoms are similar to depression and that thing called SAD.

Well I was certainly experiencing a lot of muscular pain and inner bone pains for a few years.

Thank goodness my new Dr has picked this up......could have been on my way to getting ruddy ricketts!

seriously!

[ten*teeny*tiny*toes]

I was of the opinion that vitamins and supplements were not necessary in healthy people who ate well.

Disappointing now if even a healthy diet wont provide the right balance.

I need to do some research!

[aps1080]

And then when people lie me go out and harvest our own, pure, natural food, be it fish, pig, deer, buffalo, ducks,
we get criticised no end.
I find nothing more refreshing than going " hunting" with aborigines for food, from berries to plums, to yams, t fish,
some f the other stuff eaves a bit to be desired but gees you feel good afterwards.
It beats plastic trays anyday.

[boris1gary]

I don't go out in the sun unless covered - I'm sceptical about this trend of Australians being declared lacking vitamin D when we have 

• skin cancers account for around 80% of all newly diagnosed cancers
• between 95 and 99% of skin cancers are caused by exposure to the sun
• GPs have over 1 million patient consultations per year for skin cancer
• the incidence of skin cancer is one of the highest in the world, two to three times the rates in Canada, the US and the UK.

am also sceptical of the vitamin tablet industry, a lot of the big names don't have enough of whatever it is they are flogging to have any effect .

[fourandsixpants]

Yeah I hear you Boris.....BUT I have my pathology results from my blood test ! Results do not lie

[aps1080]

Boris

You are forgetting the time lag effect of skin cancer.

We spend far more time outside than the UK, US. Hell, even in mid winter I am in a t shirt.


I am still to be convinced that 5 - 30 minutes a week in the sun will lead to a whole huge increase in skin cancer.

[aps1080]

Boris

Re your comment re tablet industry,too little of what ?

The vitamins in them ?

[fourandsixpants]

boris said: am also sceptical of the vitamin tablet industry, a lot of the big names don't have enough of whatever it is they are flogging to have any effect .

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Yes agree with this. Also I have been told that Vitamin D OIL is more easily absorbed by our bodies than from the capsules.

[lionrose.7]

I dont retain Vit D and I dont eat any fish or shell fish at all.

[fourandsixpants]

Okay everyone......how do we go about getting better absorption of Vitamin D.....?

[boris1gary]

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@aps1080 wrote:
Boris

You are forgetting the time lag effect of skin cancer.

We spend far more time outside than the UK, US. Hell, even in mid winter I am in a t shirt.


I am still to be convinced that 5 - 30 minutes a week in the sun will lead to a whole huge increase in skin cancer.

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While only a small proportion of total melanoma cases are diagnosed in people under 35 years of age, Australian adolescents have by far the highest incidence of malignant melanoma in the world (one-third of cancers in females, one-quarter in males), compared with adolescents in other countries.[16] Furthermore, melanoma is the most common cancer diagnosed in Australians aged 15-29 years, and accounts for more than one-quarter of all cancers in this age group.[17] However, research in Queensland suggests a decline in the incidence of thin invasive melanoma since the mid- to late 1990s among young people who have been exposed to Queensland’s primary prevention and early detection programs since birth.[18]

http://wiki.cancer.org.au/skincancerstats/Skin_cancer_incidence_and_mortality