I was wrong about vitamin D. I admit it.
In this video, I explain why it took a health scare to make me realise the truth about this supplement and exactly who should take it and why.
This is the deep dive into vitamin D you’ve been waiting for.
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Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
0:25 My Story
1:07 What is Vitamin D and how do we measure it?
3:34 Why are Vitamin D recommendations different in different countries?
6:33 Why have Vitamin D recommendations been set so high?
7:05 What can we be sure about?
7:32 How much sunlight you need.
10:40 Why I started taking Vitamin D supplements
12:08 My recommendations for you
13:06 What You need to know about Vitamin D supplements
References
1. The genetic contribution to serum Vitamin D levels: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0007747
2. Andrea Love’s article https://news.immunologic.org/p/vitamin-d-can-we-finally-stop-beating
3. New York Times article https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/18/business/vitamin-d-michael-holick.html
4. Sunlight in Spain https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969716320307?via%3Dihub
5. The Poland sunscreen study https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31069787/
Here’s the usual terrible joke:
Why did the Vitamin D ghost its new girlfriend?
It only shows up when things are sunny.
