Vitamin D Supplements

[BakerAunt]

Vitamin D supplements are commonly prescribed. It's included in a lot of multivitamins. However, my Consumer Reports Health Newsletter had an article that suggested for most people, taking Vitamin D is useless. It was not a detailed article, but it made me wonder. Now the PBS News Hour Science weekly science email had this link to yet another article:

https://www.vox.com/2018/10/4/17933880/vitamin-d-health-sun-diet

When I have my yearly appointment, I will ask my doctor about it. I'm wondering if, yet again, a supplement has been overhyped.

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[Mike Nolan]

Personally, I suspect 90% of all supplements are worthless, and another 2-3% are actually causing more problems than they solve.

[aaronatthedoublef]

My doc just told me to stop taking Omega 3s because the latest science is they don't do anything for cardio vascular health.

[BakerAunt]

We're just going to have to get those vitamins, minerals, and Omega 3s the old-fashioned way: consuming foods that contain them! 🙂

[BakerAunt]

I saw my doctor last week, and she is still firmly on the Vitamin D train. I had cut back at the end of last March, so that I was alternating (every other day) a multivitamin with 1000 IU Vitamin D with a 2000 IU Vitamin D because I was concerned about taking 3000 IU per day, and frankly not keen on 600 IU in calcium supplements, as I am working to get most of my calcium from food. Well, they tested my Vitamin D levels and said, just as they did last year, that "they are a little low" and the doctor wants me on the 2000 IU and says it's ok to take the multivitamin with its 1000 additional IUs of Vitamin D as well. I may ditch the multivitamin. I am, however, wondering if I'm even absorbing most of the Vitamin D that I take.

I do not like being so confused.

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