Vitamin D: A Public Service Announcement

[ksumnersmith]

I've been preaching this gospel for two years now, and it goes something like this: Do you live in a place where there's winter? Do you have a job or lifestyle that requires you to be inside much of the time, and/or work at night? Please, please consider taking vitamin D supplements

Comments

[lenora_rose]

Considering that MS is relatively rampant in places like Winnipeg, and much less known further south, I think that link has been made anecdotally for some times and just not tested.

I don't get S.A.D., but I will say your advice is sound.

[bradipo]

Me too. I started taking vitamin D late last winter, and I've taken it all this winter.

Last winter my season depression was less severe than it had been in years past--at least partly because I wasn't having to head to work in the dark and come home in the dark the way most working folks do, but also very possibly because of the vitamin D.

This winter I've taken it as well and have no seasonal depression at all--you have to go back to my childhood to find the last time that was true.

As I say, could be the job situation more than the vitamin D, but I'm sufficiently inclined to credit the vitamin D that I'm going to keep taking it.

[merriehaskell]

Preach it.

My mom also theorizes that even if you can get the sunlight at our latitudes, it's approaching from the wrong angle and is too weak when it reaches us to be as effective as it should be.

[talyesin]

I haven't been taking D, but this past autumn I started St. John's Wort and I must say, the difference is undeniable. February used to be the worst month of the year for me. Now it is merely ... well, it's tolerable, anyway.

Hooray for chemical balance!

Vitamin and the common cold

[anonymous]

To be transparent, I work on some projects with The Ddrops Company. They recently released a press release talking about a link between Vitamin D and the common cold. You can take a look at it here; http://www.ddrops.ca