Vitamin D and the Elderly

[kelkel]

Quick read:

Vitamin D status and metabolic syndrome in the elderly: the Rotterdam Study

[Score]

Vitamin D deficiency is very common but I've read that supplementing it has no proven impact on levels?

Much like b12 it's not the lack of intake, it's the lack of ability to absorb it within the body.

I take them both anyway : ). Who knows.

[Juced_porkchop]

Thanks! Good quick read for sure!

[ScotchGuard02]

I remember reading an article about people dying from SARS and the common thread was that all of them were deficient in vitamin D. Go figure.

[kelkel]

Interesting side-bar, at least to me. I was running 5k D3 per day and one 50K D2 per week in the winter. My D stayed around 80 on a scale of 30 - 100. Dropped the D2 in the summer and began tanning twice per week and levels held. Stopped tanning and just continued the D3. Levels dropped to 47. Interesting that the tanning kept the level elevated that much.

[Iceberg]

Interesting side-bar, at least to me. I was running 5k D3 per day and one 50K D2 per week in the winter. My D stayed around 80 on a scale of 30 - 100. Dropped the D2 in the summer and began tanning twice per week and levels held. Stopped tanning and just continued the D3. Levels dropped to 47. Interesting that the tanning kept the level elevated that much.

I started vD. It gives me nausea

[xcraider37]

I started vD. It gives me nausea

Try a different brand or try taking it with your fatiest meal since it is fat soluble.

[kelkel]

Try a different brand or try taking it with your fatiest meal since it is fat soluble.

Exactly. Start low, titrate up based on BW.

[Iceberg]

Exactly. Start low, titrate up based on BW.

I'll try a 1/4 tonight and see what happens the 5000 knocked on my azz

[dirkmcgirk]

Vitamin D deficiency is very common but I've read that supplementing it has no proven impact on levels?

Much like b12 it's not the lack of intake, it's the lack of ability to absorb it within the body.

I take them both anyway : ). Who knows.

This notion is patently false. Before I started supplementing with 50,000iu once a week of Vitamin D my numbers were damn near at rickets levels, not they are easily in the midrange for a healthy vitamin D level