Vegans and fractures

[Muddyroads]

Today I picked 144 of these, with another 600 going tomorrow:

You wouldn’t believe how many of these I killed in the process!

 

[Cowabunga]

Today I picked 144 of these, with another 600 going tomorrow:
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You wouldn’t believe how many of these I killed in the process!
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If you eat one of the first and a few dozen of the second daily, you should be OK. Or dead.

 

[DaveGrohl]

Good old NHS advice sheets ... There's also a list of links to sources of calcium, and other mins and vits in the following:

Vitamin D

Find out about vitamin D, including what it does, how much you need, and how to ensure you get enough.

www.nhs.uk

Sadly the NHS is the last place you should go for dietary advice. They're stuck in the last century.

 

[DaveGrohl]

I heard one of the Drs van Tulleken talking about Vit D supplements recently, but missed dosage information.
Last winter, I bought a pot of general purpose vit tablets as a boost for systems should there be lurgies about. I'll see what the figures are on the pot.

Most multivits have vitD levels of 400iu which as Cowabunga has said is the bare minimum for rickets. Talk about a low bar, the level isn't a level to promote good health. We should be doing better.

 

[DaveGrohl]

I take one of these, morning and evening and truthfully feel much better for it and don't feel hungry at all since soon after I started.
It takes a week or two to really take effect in the body because it has to be synthesized through the liver and body levels increase first.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B072L235Z5/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

For dosage....

Alongside vit D3 it's important to take K2 as this helps the body to partition the calcium correctly, removing any potential deposits in plaques in the blood vessels and depositing it back in the bones where it belongs. D3 and K2 work in harmony here. We're on 4000iu of D3 and 100 micro grammes of K2 (MK7 which is slow release). Also calcium isn't the only mineral involved in bone strength. There's a video on YouTube by Dr Paul Mason which goes into bone strength and important nutrients, phosphorous was almost as important as calcium from memory but wasn't the only important factor.

 

[FonterraFarmer]

Because hardly anyone, even farmers and outdoorsy types get enough sun except in mid-summer to create adequate amounts of vit D in the body. A short walk in the sun just doesn't cut it. Even people in fairer climates are found deficient.
What sort of efficient factory for VitD do you think we have inside us that gets through clothes of produces VitD from short exposures to tiny parts of our bodies? To get enough from the sun we would need to be out in the duff all year round, lord forbid.

The common conundrum here, vitamin d or sunburn....