I too have been taking D3 4000iu - as recommended by a pharmacist friend. I have thus far been free from any viral or bacterial infections. (I typed that with all fingers crossed which was hard work)
I have always used Healthspan in Jersey for Vit D3 as they have had the best quality at the best price (often discounted). They sell 240 tablets, 25micrograms (1000 i.u.) for GBP11.95. They will post to France for a flat fee of GBP3.95. Under GBP150.00, there is no tax or import duty.
This is the study report, which is more detailed on strngths and limitations of the study than the New Scientist
Yes all good news, then its what you take out of your diet to reduce the autoimmune diseases to start with and that just happens to be the man modified junk in processed and industrialised food.
Like the emulsifiying agents, seed and grain oils, and the long chemical names you would never add to your home made food all so it can sit on the shelves for 2-3 years.
As I said John, it’s not that simple. Dentist mother so no sweets and biscuits, home cooked food from basic ingredients all my life (the friday night fish and chips being the one exemption), vegetarian for young adult life and now eat fish too. All I know about McDonalds is that they have clean toilets and good wifi. So proportion of my lifetime diet that has been highly processed food is v small. But have AI disease. And millions of people with a crappy diet don’t.
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I have a friend with AI disease and they’ve battled for years to try and deal with it - excercise, diet, medication, yet still not really any further forward unfortunately, and the specialists seem to just head scratch. The last medication they were advised to take by a specialist were steroids, and that fid was help them pile on weight! Very sad to see, and I’m sure enormously frustrating.
The last sledgehammer bastion of doctors, cant fix it, give a steroid!
Yes very bloody unfair! From the research I listened to recently. A fecal transplant seems to have very good outcomes where other treatments have failed. The Chinese worked this out 2500 years ago and now the west is catching up. Various ways to do this the easiest being the crapsule.
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Devil’s tic-tacs (if you remember tic-tacs). Wonderful things in the immediate term, and superb in some emergency situations. Turns one into super-woman, pain- free and full of energy. But also an axe murderer with fragile bones and adrenal problems.
Avoid oral steroids like the plague, but infusions are different. Sad if that’s all your friend can tolerate/be effective as so many new treatments now.
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Along with new treatments you often need a new doctor
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I’m taking Swanson’s at the moment. No sunflower oil.
I’ve noticed several times Corona that you are anti seed and nut oils. Are you saying that something like cold pressed organic hemp oil is not good for us? We have a local bio farmer who offers cold pressed hemp oil and I’d wondered about buying from him.
Not seen anything about hemp oil that says its bad, most things are good.
Its more the industrial rape, corn, vegetable, sunflower etc, these oils are low in omega 3 but high in omega 6 and go off (oxidise) quite quickly so they stabilise them, often by hydrogenating them. Same with the grey industrial sludge some call margarine, the colour that imitates butter is just colouring.
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Margarine is Satan’s earwax, not to be touched even with a long spoon.
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I get D3 from iHerb, this one : NOW Foods, Vitamine D3, 125 µg (5000 UI), 240 capsules à enveloppe molle It’s cheap, the postage isn’t much, and there are no customs surprises with them. Since D3 increases calcium absorption it may be advisable to take K2 also, the MK7 form such as this one : NOW Foods, MK-7 Vitamine K-2, 100 µg, 120 capsules végétariennes The reason is that K2, a different form of K that had nothing to do with clotting, helps with the management of calcium by activating two proteins. One helps to scavenge the calcium that’s lying around in the wrong places in your body, while the other helps to direct the calcium into your bone matrix where it belongs.
In my web wanderings over the years I’ve settled on four supplements : C, D3, K2 and magnesium. I think that these four are very important for ongoing health. I recently added zinc because of Covid. So D3 and K2 I get from iHerb, and C and zinc from Pierre et Jerome in France. Magnesium is a bit harder, and at the moment I’m mostly on magnesium chloride.
Fascinating subject.
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It is a fascinating subject, but also one that is easy to get sucked in to thinking you need things you don’t.
I spent some time looking at what we regularly eat on an average week. We don’t/rarely eat meat so concerned about vitamins. And we eat the right balance to get recommended amounts of magnesium, zinc, boron, selenium etc etc. In fact with our diet it would be unwise to take calcium supplements.
I far prefer to spend money on food than supplements!
So apart from Vit D which I can’t retain I take none. (Vit D test yesterday had me on 58mmol/l so need to up my drops again😕)
Watched or read a report the other day that orally taken calcium doesn’t reach the bones. It circulates in the blood stream looking to cause heart problems. Maybe K2 would help get it out of the bloodstream and save the kidneys some work.
Overturns quite a few years of bad administering of calcium supplements.
I have what is probably a very old fashioned view in that if you eat properly, drink more water than wine, exercise daily and sleep a reasonable number of hours then the body has a a pretty remarkable ability to look after itself. It will excrete what it doesn’t need and find a way to use what it does. And has a large number of self regulating mechanisms.
Vit D is my only exception…
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