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How low vitamin D causes a high PSA
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Apr 16 9:24am | Replies (23)Comment receiving replies
@carbcounter Well yeah, and I go back to the words ‘optimal’ and ‘sufficient’…says WHO?
No disagreement that D is important; but how much is enough?
We’ve evolved to make Vitamin D in our skin when the sun hits it - so wearing modern clothing certainly affects that, right?
But does eating it work? Is it as beneficial? Should we even try to supplement if we have no disease?How many more biochemical processes may be involved when production comes from the sun vs absorption thru the gut?
I read an article way back when, in which the author claimed that you should not shower for a minimum of 3 hours after sunbathing since the Vit D is made in the most superficial layer of the epidermis and you can wash off these cells.
Don’t know where he got that - or if it’s even true - but we’re really going down a DEEP rabbit hole if we have to adjust our shower times to Vitamin D production😩.
Phil
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No doubt that some serious research is needed on all these issues around vitamin D, and all other vitamins too individually and in combination! And probably then matched to genetic variations.
The evolutionary origin of our need for vitamin D would be interesting too, given that people have been wearing clothes, not to mention living in colder climates, for, oh, a couple of hundred thousand years now!
Wash off those cells? Hmm. I'd bet against that one, lol.
As to the levels, that one strikes me as valid. My mother had some health problems starting around, oh, age 70 or so. She took a multivitamin that had some D, ate fish a couple of times a week, and with all her extensive medical diagnosis and treatment, nobody ever said boo about it. At some point I became more involved with her care and between me and Doctor Internet I thought, hmm, let's try some more vitamin D. I even checked it out with her PCP and he said OK. So just added a couple of 1000iu supplements per day. OMG if some serious problems she'd had for ten years didn't clear up in just a month or two. Wish I'd thought to get her blood test levels, but heck, I'll bet her doctors never took them. SMH
Then there's the reports from during COVID. I don't want to start a whole thing there, but they were pretty major. Again, more formal study of this would be great, for many reasons.
So there are questions and we live in these primitive times when real answers are not even searched for, but that's the top of my vitamin D report!