As an endocrinologist, I believe that we must give hormones or supplements to people who demonstrate a definite deficiency and not on some empirical treatment that more may be better when a need in the body does not exist.
Vitamin D which is a hormone is one such case in point. There has been a plethora of supposed benefits to Vitamin D but on closer examination none of which has proven to be of benefit to non deficient healthy people.
I tell my patients: if you are low in Vitamin D go for a walk for 20 minutes a day, your vitamin D levels would come up. I realized that among the indigenous peoples that I work with not a single person had NORMAL vitamin D levels as proscribed by the scientists. there must be something more to it, I thought.
If you are a true indigenous person(just card carrying wont do) the chances of you having osteoporosis is small, change of life is accepted as a normal passage of life, so get out in the sun and walk a little..
Here is a recent article on high vitamin D supplementation.
Vitamin D which is a hormone is one such case in point. There has been a plethora of supposed benefits to Vitamin D but on closer examination none of which has proven to be of benefit to non deficient healthy people.
I tell my patients: if you are low in Vitamin D go for a walk for 20 minutes a day, your vitamin D levels would come up. I realized that among the indigenous peoples that I work with not a single person had NORMAL vitamin D levels as proscribed by the scientists. there must be something more to it, I thought.
If you are a true indigenous person(just card carrying wont do) the chances of you having osteoporosis is small, change of life is accepted as a normal passage of life, so get out in the sun and walk a little..
Here is a recent article on high vitamin D supplementation.