Posted by Chris O on June 28, 2014, at 11:02:51
In reply to Re: Anyone else have chronically low vitamin D?, posted by Tomatheus on June 27, 2014, at 19:56:30
Tomatheus:
Thanks for responding to me. No, I did not notice any difference when I tested and my vitamin D levels were in the 40s. I thought at first, maybe there was some difference. But upon deeper consideration, if there was any increase in mood, it was negligible. Also, I live in sunny southern California (really sunny for the past year, almost no rain), and I made it point to be in the sun for many, many hours before seeing the doctor for my blood work a couple of weeks ago. For my vitamin D still to be this low, after spending 10-20 hours in quality sunlight, there is definitely something not happening with my body's ability to produce it. Or, my massive anxiety/depression is perhaps decreasing my vitamin D levels. Or, there is some other reason that I cannot even fathom. Who knows? But the fact that my B-12 is chronically low too makes me think it has something to do with my mental health issues.
Nothing on the hallucination end while taking vitamin D supplements. But we all seem to react differently to these drugs and supplements.
I listened to an interesting talk a few months ago (can't remember where) about a meta-analysis of all the different studies with vitamin D. One conclusion of that analysis was that people in the mid range (40s, 50s, 60s) had the best health outcomes and those in the lower (10s, 20s, 30s) and higher (70s, 80s, 90s) ranges had higher death rates. That was one of the main findings of that meta-analysis. Not a very hopeful one for those of us with low D levels.
Chris
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