Re: [vpFREE] xvp Speaking of "nasty bugs" (was Re: Just to Satisfy You)

 


On Jan 30, 2013, at 8:34 PM, "vp_wiz" harry.porter@verizon.net> wrote:

> So I'll take this opportunity to put in a plug for Vitamin D supplements ...
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Been on 'em for several years.

Spent my whole youth outdoors, then they told us get out of the sun. Skin cancer would kill us all. Plus all us college boys put on ties and worked inside under ghoulish fluorescents. The result: Vitamin D levels have been dropping for 70 years -- a serious public health crisis. We didn't know, cuz screening tests were too expensive. They're now under $50, so we're getting them regularly. And the results aren't pretty.

While they saved us from the scourges of skin cancer (easily treated), other cancers like colon (deadly) increased. Not a good trade off.

My level went from 30 (low) to 50 last year. Probably 70 now. No more SAD or winter depression.

Still best to get it from the sun for a few minutes a day. But if you live up north, you'll find that difficult much of the time, and impossible the rest.

So yes, if you spend your time in the gray and the cold, a trip to Costco or CVS just might save your life.

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[vpFREE] xvp Speaking of "nasty bugs" (was Re: Just to Satisfy You)

 

So I'll take this opportunity to put in a plug for Vitamin D supplements ...

Philly winters tend to be damp and chill. I was prone to chronic respiratory congestion, and a seasonal cold episode was the norm. In 2008, I came down with the flu, which left a good case of bronchitis in it's wake, and that ultimately worsened into a rather nasty pneumonia.

Following that bout, my MD (who's a common-sense kinda doc), suggested I start taking 2000 IU of Vitamin D daily (citing recent studies showing a strong link to respiratory health).

He'd never recommended a supplement to me before (aside from fish oil capsules), so I took him seriously. Since starting a daily Vit D capsule, the chronic congestion cleared and I haven't had so much as a cold since.

Take this under advisement. If winters tend to be challenging when it comes to your health, google the subject.

You can start with an NIH abstrct, "Vitamin D and Respiratory Health" http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2759054/

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> Glad to hear you got waylaid, if not so happy about what by. The whole country's got roving bands of nasty bugs making the rounds, making me feel like staying inside till spring. You might be safer in Montana.

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