yes plenty. you only have to be outside for 30 mins to get enough. apparently it's better to get outside in the morning, i forget why. interestingly vit D is one of the few vitamins where it's harmful to take too much in supplement form
Which is why your GP will tell you to take it as posted by everyone here, and that works, and even by your standards of lunacy this is complete desperation.
whether its vitamin d or not, i dunno how anyone can experience the massive mood lift of a sunny day and not know that they're missing out on something over winter
Vitamin D is so important its the only vitamin your body can actually make itself. It's not really a vitamin, it's more akin to a hormone and is involved in way more bodily processes than conventional medicine suggests such as synthesis of other hormones. Almost everyone in the UK is deficient and should supplement, you should also ensure your supplement includes vitamin K2 ideally the MK7 variant as that ensures the D3 gets where it needs to in the body. There are even studies showing that large doses increase D size lol.
In England people who go outside tend to get enough up to about October to last until the Spring when you can get it from the sun again - Scotland will not be quite so easy. It is best to get it from the sun so I usually go out between about April and October with very little on when it is sunny after lunch for about 15 minutes a day. I don't take any pills. I hardly ever get ill (seen a GP for about 15 minutes in last 15 years, luckiest woman in England but cannot say that is down to vit D from the sun of course)..
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in the frozen North I definitely do not
have been wondering about eating rollmops (again) as this is supposedly how the danes manage
but ugh
anyway thinking about monthly long weekends somewhere hot where I just exist outside for half an hour a day
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You can buy a years supply of vit d tabs on eBay for £6. And if you only take them over the dark months, it will last 2 years. FFS.
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Yes but I spend a chunk of each of the weekend outside all year round and in the summer regularly spend whole days in full sunshine.
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yes plenty. you only have to be outside for 30 mins to get enough. apparently it's better to get outside in the morning, i forget why. interestingly vit D is one of the few vitamins where it's harmful to take too much in supplement form
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i bought a box of those amazon vitamin d tablets but i do wonder if they're just completely fake
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The pills don't work as well as sunshine
UV needs to be 3 or greater so today for example you might make some in London but not in Newcastle
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Do you waddle and do your fingers tingle? If no, you're fine and stop catastrophising.
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Wot jelly said ffs.
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Vitamin D is important, but it's quite rare to not get enough of it. Most Vitamin D health claims are just hype.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-much-vitamin-d-do-you-ne…
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it is definitely NOT rare not to get enough of it
almost every person living at the latitude of Edinburgh / Copenhagen does not get enough from october to March
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vit D supplements are available from any pharmacy or supermarket in the UK.
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yes but as above
they don't work very well because we are evolved to get it optimally from sunshine on skin
this is especially hard at high latitudes (and doubly so for those with non-pale skin)
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and this is why plenty of studies show that supplements only minimally ameliorate vitamin d-insufficiency linked health conditions
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no further ill-informed snark?
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Thought vitamin D was a euphemism. Definitely not getting enough
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heh it can also be
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Which is why your GP will tell you to take it as posted by everyone here, and that works, and even by your standards of lunacy this is complete desperation.
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lots of evidence that vit d supplementation can enhance arteriosclerosis
probably studies performed by millennials though so I see your dilemma
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whether its vitamin d or not, i dunno how anyone can experience the massive mood lift of a sunny day and not know that they're missing out on something over winter
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Vitamin D is so important its the only vitamin your body can actually make itself. It's not really a vitamin, it's more akin to a hormone and is involved in way more bodily processes than conventional medicine suggests such as synthesis of other hormones. Almost everyone in the UK is deficient and should supplement, you should also ensure your supplement includes vitamin K2 ideally the MK7 variant as that ensures the D3 gets where it needs to in the body. There are even studies showing that large doses increase D size lol.
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Not really but I take supplements.
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In England people who go outside tend to get enough up to about October to last until the Spring when you can get it from the sun again - Scotland will not be quite so easy. It is best to get it from the sun so I usually go out between about April and October with very little on when it is sunny after lunch for about 15 minutes a day. I don't take any pills. I hardly ever get ill (seen a GP for about 15 minutes in last 15 years, luckiest woman in England but cannot say that is down to vit D from the sun of course)..
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