Anyone take vitamin D pills?

[ChaoZ]

I'm just realizing I do not get enough vitamin D. What brands do you use/suggest?

 

[PricklyPete]

No...do you drink milk? I drink so much milk and I'm outside enough in the warmer months that I can't imagine I have any kind of vitamin deficiency.

 

[katank]

I'd recommend some fish liver oil. It takes care of both Vitamin D and omega 3 at the same time. Carlson works pretty well.

 

[Jinru]

I've recently read some interesting articles on the deficiency of Vit D and it's underrated uses.

http://www.tmuscle.com/free_online_...raining_performance_nutrition/d_is_for_doping
http://www.nutraingredients.com/Research/Vitamin-D-levels-not-enough-for-winter-Study

 

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[wwswimming]

i went shopping for some D recently.

$3 - bottle of 400 mg tablets at CVS/ Long's. "Cholecalciferol" - chemical name.

$XX - bottle of D "from lanolin" at the health food store. much more expensive.

i forget the price - bottle of D in Cod Liver Oil, though with slightly alarming label "most mercury removed", something like that.

i went for the cheap D. turns out, Vitamin D IS cholecalciferol.

there was an ad on the radio about "you need 2000 IU a day" and they were talking about the effect on cognition, SAD (seasonal affective disorder), etc.

anyway, i started taking 400 mg a few times a day. also, when the sun comes out, to be outside for 15 minutes or a half hour, though there hasn't been much sun lately.

so i guess part of the good feeling you get from hanging at the beach is from the natural Vitamin D ?

 

[evident]

won't taking a centrum performance cover it?

 

[spamsk8r]

Yeah, I take 2000IU/day because I'm in an office all the time and don't get to see the sun too much.