Thank you for this. It's wonderful to hear, and good on you. Sometimes we do need to make drastic changes and finally listen to our bodies, I agree.
I am already noticing a major difference in how my body is working, and it has only been a few days, less than a week, so much so that my wife, who doesn't touch supplements and vitamins - she is very health - is thinking of supplementing with D. It's truly amazing. I wonder how it all will progress in the days, weeks and months to come.
I write this on yet another cloudy day, with rain, or snow, or what have you. I think we'll at least take a trip down south, perhaps to Florida for a week or so. That should help. And perhaps I can find a way to find us a summer home now and then, since we can both work remotely in the summers.
I have to say, it's nice that you have such a supportive family and that you were able to use all this to your advantage for such great improvement. How did it affect your PN, if I may ask?
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Originally Posted by v5118lKftfk
I'd like to give a ray of hope.
It is possible to significantly raise your Vitamin D levels.
I had very, very low levels. I had a million things continually going wrong with me. In January last year, I had the goal to get healthy or just stop the barage of new things going wrong and specifically raise my Vitamin D levels.
First, I took daily "WildOel", product in Europe, more natural form of vitamin D, in a tablespoon of olive oil along with a meal with fats, to help with absorption.
Secondly ... less practical ... but made huge difference to health overall .... I made a big sacrifice, talked to loved ones, did my research and found an in expensive way to spend three months, during winter in warm weather with sunshine closer to the equator and was religious about being in the sun each day (only need 30 minutes, too much sun and your body limits/regulates how much D it's absorbing so you don't overdose).
Thirdly ... when I came back, I was absolutely religious (set my daily alarm) to no matter what, get out in the sun over Spring/Summer/Autumn for 20 minutes daily before 2pm. (see note below).
My health improved soooo-oooo-oooo much and my D levels gradually came way up to a very healthy level by Autumn. Infact I tested quite well.
My body was telling me I had to change my life and so I knuckled down and found a way to do what was needed. My family was more supportive than I expected.
So perhaps not all my solution is practical for everyone but it is possible to see a very healthy improvement in D levels over the course of half a year.
At some point, for some of us, there comes a time when you have to ask if your body won't let you recover until you do something big, possibly very very inconvenient, that's needed to heal.
Natalie
P.S. Please note that because of the angle of the sun to the planet, anyone who lives above the latitude of Los Angeles will not receive Vitamin D from the sun from the start of October until the start of April and will only get Vitamin D from the Sun the rest of the year before 2pm. There's actually more gradient than this, but this is a very rough rule of thumb. However, this does not mean that there aren't many other benefits from getting out in the sun outside of these time windows. For example, seeing good light in the morning has a strong effect on your bio rhythms during the day and how well you fall asleep at night, etc.
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