Vitamin D
Vitamin D crept over my horizon about six months ago -- there is a growing body of information that considers it to be one of the more important nutrients for good health and living in an area that has a long and dark winter, I started taking supplements (6,000 units/day tapering off to 2,000 units/day after a month).
During winter, I noticed a marked downturn in my sense of well-being and was on chemical anti-depressants the winter that my Mom passed away.
Taking Vitamin D has completely reversed this seasonal disorder.
Today, I ran into this website:
Vitamin D Council
From the
About Us page:
Our Mission
Our goal is to educate the public and professionals about Vitamin D Deficiency and its numerous associated diseases. Our free Vitamin D Newsletter has a circulation of over 35,000 and growing by over 50 subscribers per day. We maintain a website with around 5,000 unique visitors per day. The Vitamin D Council would like to sponsor a series of educational conferences aimed at the general public, physicians, and the press to alert them about the extent and consequences of Vitamin D Deficiency and the simple steps that can be taken to avoid it.
My only concern is that I was initially skeptical of the SAD link, I started reading a lot of different sources and had my own experiences so I was no longer skeptical. Now, Vitamin D literature is coming out of the woodwork -- it is right up there with the Second Coming of Christ in that it cures Autism, Asthma, Cancer, Heart Disease, yadda, yadda, yadda. The skepticism is coming back.
I am sticking with the sense of well being and anything else that happens along the way will be just pure gravy.
Posted by DaveH at February 2, 2010 9:04 PM