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!

[aps1080]

Fat in diet, the vit d is fat soluable and is absorbed that way.

If you do take a pill, end of a meal.

[aps1080]

Ok, but 5- 30 minutes a week is going to give you a cancer ?
If that was the case, we would be wrapped up like Eskimos.


Re the cancers in the young, is that because we spend more time out or more time outside with exposed skin ?
After all, people have said they get cancers in areas that NEVER see the sun.

[boris1gary]

---

@paintsew007 wrote:

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

---

no idea, maybe some people can't absorb it for some reason - I hate the sun and my vit D is fine.

[***super_nova***]

---

@paintsew007 wrote:

I cannot afford to buy fresh salmon steaks to eat.....would not even know where to buy wild salmon steaks (as pellet-fed, farmed ones not as high in Vitamin D) so I eat sardines regularly. I eat eggs......not sure what prob is causing this GLOBAL PANDEMIC OF SEVERE VITAMIN DEFICIENCY ACROSS MANY NATIONS

---

I am not sure you can get wild salmon in Australia, can you?  I try to have salmon at least once a week, and eat also eggs.  I am not sure about canned sardines; they are either in water or vegetable oil, wonder how much vitamin D they have.  I love fresh sardines; used to get them at Vic Market, but have not seen them for years.  Sardines are the best fish to eat, being so low in food chain; the poisons in sea are least concentrated in their bodies.

aps. I have absolutely nothing against people hunting for their food, but it has to be done with respect for the prey and the bush.  All the "hunters" I know just love to go to the forest and shoot at anything that moves, and then do not even bother to take it home, or making sure they actually kill the animal and not just injury it.  When staying in holiday flats on NSW south coast, there were people who were on fishing holidays, bringing in buckets of fish daily, showing them off, and then dumping them in the skip in the carpark.

[fourandsixpants]

cheers aps for tip re. take Vit D supplement after/end of meal.....I did not get an answer when I asked both Dr and Chemist when to take......chemist said anytime.

supanova re. sardines being great source of Vit D cheers, I knew this. I love sardines.....will investigate if I can get fresh. Bunbury is a PORT town.....many years ago one could get fresh fish from local fisherman that docked at jetty......anything good must be stopped hey?!

[lind9650]

Regarding skin cancers in 15 to 35 yeaar olds. I come to the same conclusion that all that GM food is killing something in our immune system. My children and I have spent long days outdoors when we lived close to the beach, and then again when we lived in Central Australia. No slip, slap. slop in those days, and none of my children has any form of skin cancer. Ages 51 to 61 now. But then we ate healthy and unadulterated food in those days.

Erica

[fourandsixpants]

I don't know what it is.....I have always eaten healthy since in control of making the meals and have been vigilant in food and diet choices for my kids........choosing fresh as much as possible.Avoiding the processed stuffs as much as possible.

I feel like throwing my hands up in despair actually at the amount of chemicals added to our foods, even fruit and veg it seems. Can't always afford to buy the organic lines, too expensive and in supermarkets the organic lines are never as fresh as the cheaper fruit and veg.....why would I pay 2x or 3x $'s for organic when not fresh?

It is a human health tragedy in the making imo.

Yes there must be something going on re. chemical toxicity. Cannot think of anything else to be honest

[aps1080]

"the organic lines, too expensive and in supermarkets the organic lines are never as fresh as the cheaper fruit and veg.....

why would I pay 2x or 3x $'s for organic when not fresh?"

That's the society we live in though, the chemicals are needed to keep food "edible" for longer.

I read a really interesting newspaper test on Bread from Supermarkets, Bakeries etc and which went mouldy first.

I'll try and find it. I think it was the UK "Daily Mail" (Daily Fail).

I read somewhere that dark skinned people need 4 - 5 times the exposure to sun to make the same amount of Vit D.

So factor that into your thoughts (I haven't cross checked it or re read it anywhere else so happy to be corrected).

[sandypas]

I really think the vitamin D deficiency is the lastest fad with doctors.  Have we always had lower vitamin D?  Nearly everyone I know has been told they have vitamin D deficiency.

I was told a few years ago and we had just spent 3 months touring around Australia in our caravan and I had never been in the sun as much.  I never wear sunscreen so that didn't even block it out and I eat a good healthy diet.

My doctor said sunscreen is one of the reasons and that we should go without it in the early/late hours of sun when it is not as dangerous.

[aps1080]

"My doctor said sunscreen is one of the reasons and that we should go without it in the early/late hours of sun

when it is not as dangerous."

I think he has a point.

My whole family is the same. All of us since arriving from UK have spent many more hours outside than

most families because of our hobbies and apart from my mother who is fair, we all survived.

I might wear suncreen once a year, at most, hate the greasy stuff. If I need to cover up, I wear a shirt but

rarely cover my arms.