Re: Vitamin D - Yet Again

[Guest guest]

So, I take vit. D from fish liver oil. Is there a

healthier source given that I live too far north

to obtain adequate supplies from sunlight for

several months of the year.

[Guest guest]

Hi Nosir:

My take on this, for me, is as follows. My regular diet seems to be

deficient in three nutrients: calcium, zinc and vitamin D. (The

latter only because I think the RDA may be too low. I get the RDA,

but only just, only because I eat a little fish almost every day).

Since supplements that combine calcium and vitamin D are easily

available I take one daily, thereby killing two birds with one

stone. That is the only supplement I take daily.

I solve the zinc problem by taking a zinc supplement once a week with

the rest of my supplements - I have calculated that that is just the

right amount to bring me up to the RDA each week.

But in addition to the daily calcium + D, which contains only 125 IU

of D, I also take an additional, vitamin D only, supplement along

with my other weekly stuff. The total D still adds up to a lot less

than I perhaps should be taking, but I have never gone truly

overboard with any supplements - a sort of hangover from the 'never

take anything unless you absolutely need it' mentality I have had

from way back.

Your fish oil has the added advantage of providing DHA and EPA which,

as far as I know, no one disputes are very healthy. I get them from

fish directly.

What I outline above I do because it is my best guess that it is

appropriate for me. I may be mistaken of course. And even if I am

right, the same may not apply to anyone else who will likely be

physiologically different, eating a different diet and have

deficiencies that are different from mine.

As suggested before, nutrition, while it has advanced a long way in

the past 100 years, remains a very young science. So each of us are,

in effect, placing bets about what may be in our best interests

healthwise when we decide what to eat; how much to eat; and what

supplements to take.

Rodney.

--- In , " nosirreeb " <nosirreeb@y...>

wrote:

>

> So, I take vit. D from fish liver oil. Is there a

> healthier source given that I live too far north

> to obtain adequate supplies from sunlight for

> several months of the year.

[Guest guest]

Hi Apricot:

And was it not you who posted here many months ago that some types of

vitamin D supplementation made absolutely no difference to your blood

vitamin D content, while another type of supplement did make a big

difference? Or was it someone else? Or some other supplement?

Rodney.

>

> > The good news is that vit D is fat soluble so the body does store

some

> > to carry us through periods of low/no sunlight.

>

> It seems to me that d is stored in fat within liver. Perhaps then

that

> a low fatty liver has less room to store it. Just a thought.