Re:Correcting a vitamin D deficiency

[Guest guest]

Just how much vitamin D does a Caucasian mowing the lawn in shorts

and a T shirt get in two hours on a summer day? If 2000 IU is

dangerous, why do not lots of people suffer dire consequences from

moderate sun exposure?

 

 

Alobar, according to the researchers at the conference, if you are

exposed to the sun's UVB rays for a long time, your body will reach a

plateau and not increased it's vitamin D conversion to toxic levels.

You will burn your skin, but not increase vitamin D beyond a maximum

level needed. If you are out mowing your lawn in shorts and a T

shirt, all you need is about 15 minutes on a summer day to make about

20,000 IU, but if you are in a northern latitude, even in summer, you

will make less.

 

People with darker skin take longer to make vitamin D in the sun...

and take longer to burn. They also have more melanoma than caucasian

skin, because they don't make as much vitamin D readily. It's the

vitamin D that actually protects the skin against the cancer. People

who live in northern latitudes, such as Norway and Finland are very

fair skinned so that their skin will absorb more of what little sun

reaches that far.

 

Also, people who are overweight also need more vitamin D supplement

because the vitamin settles out in the fatty tissue and is not

available for the body to use in the cells. So many obese people are

deficient even if they sunbathe often.

 

BTW, you must really have a big lawn if it takes you two hours to

mow!

 

Marji

[Guest guest]

Exactly what I was getting at! If mowing the lawn can give on 20,000

IU of D, I sure am not worried about taking too much D. I'd have to

drink a cup of cod liver oil daily to reach 20,000 IU.

 

From what I have read, vitamin D overdose is generally between 50,000

to 150,000 IU per day. If I drank that much cod liver oil, I probably

would be puking and pooping it long out before enough D got absorbed

into my blood to cause a vitamin D overdose.

 

When I was a kid, the lawn took most of 2 days to mow with a small

tractor. As an adult, when I lived in the country, my lawn took

several hours to mow. Now I live in an apartment, so no lawn mowing

for me!.

 

Alobar

 

 

On 12/9/08, Marjij <marjij wrote:

> Just how much vitamin D does a Caucasian mowing the lawn in shorts

> and a T shirt get in two hours on a summer day? If 2000 IU is

> dangerous, why do not lots of people suffer dire consequences from

> moderate sun exposure?

>

>

> Alobar, according to the researchers at the conference, if you are

> exposed to the sun's UVB rays for a long time, your body will reach a

> plateau and not increased it's vitamin D conversion to toxic levels.

> You will burn your skin, but not increase vitamin D beyond a maximum

> level needed. If you are out mowing your lawn in shorts and a T

> shirt, all you need is about 15 minutes on a summer day to make about

> 20,000 IU, but if you are in a northern latitude, even in summer, you

> will make less.

>

> People with darker skin take longer to make vitamin D in the sun...

> and take longer to burn. They also have more melanoma than caucasian

> skin, because they don't make as much vitamin D readily. It's the

> vitamin D that actually protects the skin against the cancer. People

> who live in northern latitudes, such as Norway and Finland are very

> fair skinned so that their skin will absorb more of what little sun

> reaches that far.

>

> Also, people who are overweight also need more vitamin D supplement

> because the vitamin settles out in the fatty tissue and is not

> available for the body to use in the cells. So many obese people are

> deficient even if they sunbathe often.

>

> BTW, you must really have a big lawn if it takes you two hours to

> mow!

>

> Marji

>