Re: Vit D- Vitamins and Minerals

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Kat,

Be careful with the calcium-- if you are on prednisone, you will need some supplement.

The Vit D part is still in question. True, we don't process Vit D correctly, but to go without Vit D would be to induce serious depression.

sunscreen, limiting the amount of time you are out in the sun (Vit D requires sunlight to be assimilated) etc. In the Mayo journal book this year--it states that both Vit D and Vit C may be factors in the process of sarcoidosis.

This is a personal opinion-- as you all know I'm not a doctor, nurse or any other licensed medical person (I used to be certified as an Ophthalmic assistant-- thru JCAPO--Joint Commission of Allied Health Personnel in Ophthalmology)-- but I speak from my personal research and my own experience--

Our bodies seem to be unable to assimilate vitamins and minerals as they should. If you deplete the calcium in your body, your body will find a way to salvage what it needs-- by putting the calcium in the wrong places.

for instance: the inside of your bones ache-- yet you take a calcium/magnesium supplement and the pain lessens. What this tells me is that our bodies need the calcium, and the only place to get it is to leach it from our bones. It's that leaching effect that causes the pain. Add the steriods-- which leach the calcium and minerals from our bones-- and we escalate the pain.

Many of us had inside jobs-- where we were lucky to see the light of day. Under artificial lighting, off to work in the early morning, and home after dark-- and we were lucky to get even a few minutes each day outside.

Our soils, our vegetables, our fruits-- are canned or frozen. They also require that the soil they are grown in to be enhanced-- because we've sucked the nutrients from the soil. So what we consume is already deficient.

There should be some 80+ nutrients in our soils. We replace only 3. That means some 77 nutrients are not being replaced-- as we continue to replant the same fields over and over each and every year.

Vit C, Calcium, maganese-- are anti-inflamatories.

Vit A and E release oxygen into the blood stream- making it possible for the red blood cells to do what they need to do. Vit A also is significant in fighting infections.

Calcium, as we know builds bone, but without Vit D and magnesium-- it can't be assimilated.

Vit B's are needed for anemia control-- along with Folic Acid-- so for those of us on immunosupressants-- we need serious amounts of Vit B.

Potassium is necessary to keep muscle spasms at bay---- and to keep the heart beat normal.

all of this information is in the www.arthritis.org ArthritisToday magazine-- they put out an annual issue with vitamin/minerals information.

I've found that by excluding the foods that bring on inflamation, and by supplementing in the right places- that I do better. It has been a process of trial and error-- and yes, I still have sarcoidosis-- systemically. But if I do monitor the issues I can-- then at least my quality of life is better.

Comfort for us all,

Tracie

NS Co-owner/moderator

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