Naturally - which is why you should get your sun before 11:00am or after 3:00pm - you don't really need sunscreen then. I live on the sunshine isle and have never used sunscreen... i just use the sun prudently.
I have become vitamin D deficient since starting vaping
- Thread starter Robert Cromwell
- Start date
- th_trl_thread_readers 0
- Status
Naturally - which is why you should get your sun before 11:00am or after 3:00pm - you don't really need sunscreen then. I live on the sunshine isle and have never used sunscreen... i just use the sun prudently.
I know eh
... Well, I'm out with the dog every day and do the yardwork around here. I don't generally put on sunscreen for the first half hour or so but I do wear at least a short sleeved shirt, a full brimmed hat and keep most of my legs covered. Works for me 
I know eh
That's usually been my sort of gardening clothes too... but now my forearms look like leather!
And I very, very seldom burn, unless I go to FL and hang out on the beach or something, but just my natural tan, and still I've got this leather thing with my forearms. Andria
How low was your vitamin D levels OP?
I had blood work done in April of this year and it came back that I only had a 7 of vitamin D where normal is between 30 and 100. The doctor put me on supplements something like 1 50,000 iu a day for the first 7 days, then one of them a week for 3 months.
I had another blood panel done 2 or 3 weeks ago and found out today it's now up to 30 so back in the normal zone. I told the new Doctor that being a ginger I avoid the sunlight like it's the plague and he understood and told me after looking at my food log that you don't really get a lot of vitamin D from the foods you eat (milk... He says you would have to drink more milk than a sane person would want to drink) and that you just need to take a vitamin D supplement over the counter stuff and it will be fine.
As far as I understood, you will get most of your Vitamin D from being outside in the sun, not from the foods you eat.
And if you are really low (like I was) then you DO want to get that number up if you're having any other health issues that might bring on a heart attack as it's far more likely that a person will die of a heart attack if they're D deficient than it is for somebody with a proper amount of D.
As far as it being from vaping.... No, I don't believe it, at least for me it's simply because my only time spent in the sunshine / outdoors is walking from where I park the car to my houses front door, which is not enough to supply my body with the amount of D that I should have for a normal person.
I tried getting more sunshine one day after finding my levels so low, so I spent just 10 minutes sitting in my camping chair out admiring the horses, I then went back inside, and 30 minutes later felt the sting, the tops of my thighs, and legs as well as my arms were a bright red. I knew it would happen just didn't think it would happen in as short a time as 10 minutes but I really should have known better being a Ginger.
I had blood work done in April of this year and it came back that I only had a 7 of vitamin D where normal is between 30 and 100. The doctor put me on supplements something like 1 50,000 iu a day for the first 7 days, then one of them a week for 3 months.
I had another blood panel done 2 or 3 weeks ago and found out today it's now up to 30 so back in the normal zone. I told the new Doctor that being a ginger I avoid the sunlight like it's the plague and he understood and told me after looking at my food log that you don't really get a lot of vitamin D from the foods you eat (milk... He says you would have to drink more milk than a sane person would want to drink) and that you just need to take a vitamin D supplement over the counter stuff and it will be fine.
As far as I understood, you will get most of your Vitamin D from being outside in the sun, not from the foods you eat.
And if you are really low (like I was) then you DO want to get that number up if you're having any other health issues that might bring on a heart attack as it's far more likely that a person will die of a heart attack if they're D deficient than it is for somebody with a proper amount of D.
As far as it being from vaping.... No, I don't believe it, at least for me it's simply because my only time spent in the sunshine / outdoors is walking from where I park the car to my houses front door, which is not enough to supply my body with the amount of D that I should have for a normal person.
I tried getting more sunshine one day after finding my levels so low, so I spent just 10 minutes sitting in my camping chair out admiring the horses, I then went back inside, and 30 minutes later felt the sting, the tops of my thighs, and legs as well as my arms were a bright red. I knew it would happen just didn't think it would happen in as short a time as 10 minutes but I really should have known better being a Ginger.
btw I have a nice tan pretty dark so I do get sun. Of course it is a farmers tan
I did not ask the particulars about my D level I will ask them.
I did not ask the particulars about my D level I will ask them.
My cardiologist said that mine was the lowest she's seen so far (at 7) and my new Doctor said "You must be feeling so much better now that your Vitamin D levels are back in the normal zone". To be totally honest, I feel no different when my levels were extremely low or at the normal zone.
Coming to think of it ...
Most vapers are ex-smokers. Who got chased out the door to smoke outside. Many did so voluntarily too. Like when sharing dwellings with non-smokers. Now, with vaping, we can do so largerly unbothered and rarely bothering to swing our ... outdoors for a ....
I don't rightly know how much sunlight is needed to get sufficient vitamin D ... could like 5 or ten minutes a couple of times per day really make the difference between sufficient vitamin D availiability and deficiency ?
Most vapers are ex-smokers. Who got chased out the door to smoke outside. Many did so voluntarily too. Like when sharing dwellings with non-smokers. Now, with vaping, we can do so largerly unbothered and rarely bothering to swing our ... outdoors for a ....
I don't rightly know how much sunlight is needed to get sufficient vitamin D ... could like 5 or ten minutes a couple of times per day really make the difference between sufficient vitamin D availiability and deficiency ?
Once your vitamin D become deficient (below 30), mine is 22, the sun nor food can replace the deficiency says my doctor. Supplement. Take 4000iu a day with food in the morning. My deficiency happened way before I started vaping. But it makes sense. After I had melanoma I started to slather on the sun screen and stay out of the sun. The vitamin D makes me feel great and when I stop taking it I definitely notice I am more exhausted and my golf grip suffers
Unless hanging out on the water or beach all day I never wear sunscreen, I tan well. But parts of me seldom see sun and they like to burn when they do
Thanks everyone, I have learned a LOT about vitamin D deficiency today.
I do not think it is vaping related but if I had not posted this thread I would not be nearly as educated on it as I am now. Had fun too.
I do not think it is vaping related but if I had not posted this thread I would not be nearly as educated on it as I am now. Had fun too.
Im less vitamin D deficient than my older family member of the same age and Im the only one that vapes. Its an extremely common condition. Something in most of our lifestyles is affecting the levels, most likely just a side effect of age, and lifestyle.
My sons are less than half my age, one goes outdoors more often and he is normal and the one that is like me, Cant stand the sun or outdoors, he is deficient too.
Not saying that in no way could vaping be the cause, its just not likely.
My sons are less than half my age, one goes outdoors more often and he is normal and the one that is like me, Cant stand the sun or outdoors, he is deficient too.
Not saying that in no way could vaping be the cause, its just not likely.
You need sunshine. The Doctor gave my husband a script for vitamin d a couple of years ago.. he does not vap. he was not getting enough sunshine. Take about 20 minites a day to get the right amount. Good luck
That's usually been my sort of gardening clothes too... but now my forearms look like leather!
Andria
Lol yup our uv index here is around 20 min time to burn.
Its very easy to spot the tourists this way lmao
A group of golden colored people hanging out with the bright pink couple
Hey if ya don't come back all peelin and such we don't believe ya went to Florida
If you are supplementing with vitamin D you better take vitamin K2 also.
Vitamin K Prevents Vitamin D from Promoting Heart Disease.
Vitamin K engages in a delicate dance with vitamin D; whereas vitamin D provides improved bone development by helping you absorb calcium, there is new evidence that vitamin K2 directs the calcium to your skeleton, while preventing it from being deposited where you don't want it -- i.e., your organs, joint spaces, and arteries. A large part of arterial plaque consists of calcium deposits (atherosclerosis), hence the term "hardening of the arteries."
Vitamin K2 activates a protein hormone called osteocalcin, produced by osteoblasts, which is needed to bind calcium into the matrix of your bone. Osteocalcin also appears to help prevent calcium from depositing into your arteries. In other words, without the help of vitamin K2, the calcium that your vitamin D so effectively lets in might be working AGAINST you -- by building up your coronary arteries rather than your bones.
This is why if you take calcium and vitamin D but are deficient in vitamin K, you could be worse off than if you were not taking those supplements at all, as demonstrated by a recent meta-analysis linking calcium supplements to heart attacks.
Vitamin K Prevents Vitamin D from Promoting Heart Disease
Vitamin K Prevents Vitamin D from Promoting Heart Disease.
Vitamin K engages in a delicate dance with vitamin D; whereas vitamin D provides improved bone development by helping you absorb calcium, there is new evidence that vitamin K2 directs the calcium to your skeleton, while preventing it from being deposited where you don't want it -- i.e., your organs, joint spaces, and arteries. A large part of arterial plaque consists of calcium deposits (atherosclerosis), hence the term "hardening of the arteries."
Vitamin K2 activates a protein hormone called osteocalcin, produced by osteoblasts, which is needed to bind calcium into the matrix of your bone. Osteocalcin also appears to help prevent calcium from depositing into your arteries. In other words, without the help of vitamin K2, the calcium that your vitamin D so effectively lets in might be working AGAINST you -- by building up your coronary arteries rather than your bones.
This is why if you take calcium and vitamin D but are deficient in vitamin K, you could be worse off than if you were not taking those supplements at all, as demonstrated by a recent meta-analysis linking calcium supplements to heart attacks.
Vitamin K Prevents Vitamin D from Promoting Heart Disease
From what I've read I believe that may be a bit more than what is necessary, but I'm not in the medical field and really know nowhere near enough about it to know if that is anywhere near accurate. I'm sure this information is out there and that if you use a bit of Google-Fu you'll get a good idea of what is required.
Keep in mind also there are other factors besides just time involved here. There is more UV radiation in tropical areas as opposed to closer to the poles, more in the hours between 10 AM - 4 PM than otherwise, the amount of skin exposed will make a difference and cloud cover can affect what gets through but maybe not as much as we think.
- Status
Similar threads
- Locked
