Gimme some D
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!
7 Comments October 13, 2010
