So you can get too much of a good thing, it seems.
New research from the University of Copenhagen shows that vitamin D, which has been shown to help with mood and getting calcium to our bones and more, in too-high levels is linked to higher mortality.
While more needs to be examined in terms of the causes of the higher risk, best to play it safe and use a Goldilocks strategy (get it? “this level of D is juuuust right!”) when it comes to this vitamin. This is Osteoporosis Canada’s recommendation — talk to your doctor about what they recommend for you (I got tested two years ago and my D levels were low, remember?).
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May 29, 2012
Vitamin D wins the popularity vote in 2010–it was the single most-used vitamin last year in the U.S. according to a study conducted by the USDA, so it seems many of us are answering our bodies call to “gimme some D”–I know I’m still getting my daily dose.
The same study also discovered that large eggs contain 64 percent more vitamin D than previously though, each offering up 41IU of the sunshine vitamin.
(Good news if you love eggs. Which I do. But that might be because they’re usually accompanied by bacon…)
February 9, 2011
If you’ve got the current issue of Elle Canada, you may have read my story about how I just discovered that I’m pretty low on vitamin D.
I actually kind of strutted into naturopathic doctor Carrie Watkins‘s office, confident of having very healthy vitamin D levels. I mean I run outdoors regularly and I was tested in the middle of summer with tons o’ sunshine beating down on me making my runs hot, sticky and gross (I hate to sweat, remember?). Surely my levels of the sunshine vitamin was enough to pass with flying colours, right?
Not so much.
Since getting my rather miserable vitamin D results, I’ve been dutifully taking D Drops, which, for me, is a big freakin’ deal (actually “taking” something regularly). When you cover health, you get tons of vitamins and supplements to sample–bottles upon bottles that I place on my desk right in front of me to remind me to take them. I don’t need reminding, though. I just plain don’t take them, not because I forget to, but because the pills and capsules are so darn huge they get lodged in my throat, so I can’t ever bring myself to taking them ever. I’m a wimp. I admit it.
But I’ve been all over these D Drops because it’s such a cinch to take. (and that’s even with its’ rather unappealing bottle–as a rule I am all about pretty packaging.)
(Oh, you vegetarians out there can take it, too, as it’s classified for ‘lacto-ovo’ vegetarian use. The D3 in the drops is naturally sourced from lanolin, ie. from sheep’s wool–which sort of makes me queasy to think about it–so I try not to, think about it that is, when I take the tasteless drops each morning).
(in fact, I sort of wish I hadn’t been so thorough in researching the product, as thoughts of greasy sheep’s wool isn’t very appetizing. But alas, too late…).
For more about getting more vitamin D and its health benefits, pick up the current issue of Elle Canada and read my story, yo!
October 13, 2010
