Once again, we appear to not be learning from lessons of the past, as people are still grossly vitamin D deficient.
Check this out from the BBC:
This is Amaka 👇️
Amaka was in the middle of making dinner at her university house in Liverpool when she started shaking.
“I couldn’t really see in front of me,” she says. Her housemate took her to A&E – later she would be diagnosed as vitamin D deficient.
Other than feeling tired, she says she had no symptoms: “I’m a 21-year-old student. I’ve got work and uni – I’m always feeling tired.”
She remembers her mother suffering from low vitamin D but says she did not realise it could happen to her.
After taking supplements, Amaka feels a lot better, but she is anxious in case it happens again. “It was scary and I don’t want to experience that again.”
And, of course, if she stops taking vitamin D supplements it 100% will happen again.
If you are deficient, you get symptoms:
Does taking vitamin D help pain if you are deficient?
What about kids with “growing pains”
I even did a video about it in 2021
Her ancestry is from Africa. She has a lot of melanin in her skin as protection from the harsh sun of Africa.
But she lives in the UK, where we do not get much sun. That is a MISMATCH.
I thought it was common knowledge that people who are of African or Asia heritage are always deficient, and must supplement ALL YEAR.
I put it on a infographic for you:
Tell your patients the truth, and remember they can make 20,000 iu in 30 minutes of sun, so 400 iu is not a physiological dose.
4000 iu is and that is why we have it in our D3/K2 sublingual.
It is all in our patient vitamin D education video you can send from IN Health supplements once you are logged in as a practitioner.
Remember to increase the dose for patients that are obese.
Double for 3-5 stones overweight, or triple for more.
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