Don't take it if you're already taking a statin, tho.

monnie - use it to keep the kids away or something.

Red Yeast Rice - ROCKS!!!!!!

Brian

You take it in pill form? What brand etc.?

I use Super AcaiBlast in capsule form. I get it from the local GNC and also via internet (cheaper).

The Brand name is Garden Greens. I take two caps a day at bedtime. This seems to give me measurable relief from diarrhea and it only took like a week to see results. The squirts return if I miss more than one dose.

Hope it helps ya!

Randomized trial of vitamin D supplementation to prevent seasonal influenza A in schoolchildren.

Interesting that they concluded that one of the subgroups not helped by D3 supplements were. . . children already getting supplemental D3! :lol:

Seems silly to note, but in a society that thinks if a little is good, more must be better, it isn't.

Our lack of sunshine or the use of sunscreen makes us deficient in vitamin D?

The old saying that lots of sunshine and fresh air makes us healthy probably has to do with absorbing vitamin D.

Suncreen simply blocks UV rays, not really related to vitamin D absorption. Older people, who probably also spend less time outside, do have more trouble absorbing vitamin D as well.

Between a few minutes/hours outside and added vitamin D in my local milk which I drink a lot I don't feel the need for supplements there..

Btw cool graph

Ah, no, it is specifically the UV-B rays that stimulate vitamin D synthesis in the skin.

It's the quantity of sunshine that's a problem. Most days/weeks, we don't get enough. Then we go waaaay overboard when we go on vacation and bake for hours on the beach, leading to pre-cancerous genetic damage to our skin.

10-15 minutes per day is enough to synthesize colecalciferol from its precursor molecule, 7-dehydrocholesterol. Alternatively, one can take oral colecalciferol supplementation.

It is interesting to note that neither D3 or D2 are biologically active in their own right; they are both metabolized in the liver and kidneys to the active form.

High Prevalence of Vitamin D Deficiency among Inner-City African American Youth with Asthma in Washington, DC

I admit I didn't click on the link, but do blacks have a harder time manufacturing vitamin D in their skin because of their pigments?

That's my understanding, yes.

Oh good during the summer I can justify me only spending 15 minutes at the pool at a time and not getting tan. I'm vitamin D bathing :)