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Joined: Mar 26, 2005 Posts: 593 Location: Northamptonshire, England.
Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 6:47 am Post subject:
Some members of the medical community are ultra cautious if you mention taking vitamin D above the pitifully low amount of 400 IU. They are concerned about hypercalcemia and hypercalcinuria, (excess calcium in the blood and urine), but it seems that most people would have to take enough tablets to sink a battleship for that to happen. Even if it does, somebody, (could have been me), posted a little while ago about research which shows that levels quickly drop as soon as you cut your intake so it's a problem that's easily rectified,I think vitamin D is beginning to look like a panacea that might just live up to the hype .
Punchy, I'm so sorry to hear about your friend: my dad died of skin cancer and although I was too young to know him, I feel for your loss, _________________ Dom
From what I have read, being in the sun for about 15 minutes 3x a week is all it takes to keep your body making adequate Vit D. If a person is out longer than those time frames, a good sunscreen should probably be used.
We have spent a lot of time around pools in Arizona and the number of older people that now look like tooled leather belts is amazing. I sure don't want to end up looking like them and do not lay out in the sun.
A nurse at the dermatologist's office I went to in Hawaii told me that after working for a plastic surgeon for years and seeing so much skin cancer, she avoided long exposure in the sun whenever possible.
Taking supplements makes a lot of sense for most of us.
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