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Hyperreality@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Vitamin D deficiency is incredibly common. I think it's something like 1/3 or 1/4 depending on the season or where you live.

Of course, if you're a member of the red haired master race, your body produces it for you so it's less likely.

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Naja_Kaouthia@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
If you can’t make your own, store bought is fine.

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jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Vitamin D deficiency was also shown to be a co-morbidity with COVID. So to answer the question “do multivitamins do anything?” I’d say they could potentially have saved your life and you might not have noticed.

Before COVID, my wife nagged me into establishing a primary care physician since I hadn’t gone in a while. So I did, they did a blood test, and showed that I was vitamin D deficient. I took some prescription vitamin D for like a week then my doctor told me to start taking a multivitamin. When they later announced it being a co-morbidity, I felt like I dodged a bullet.

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- SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  A woman at work gave us all big bottles of vit D during the pandemic. I think it should last me until 2045.
  
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- Hyperreality@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Bit of a tangent, but when I linked to metastudies and an article in the BMJ that suggested vitamin-D supplements might reduce the risk and severity of covid, and suggested it was best not to compare vitamin D to cyanide or give medical advice, I was banned from a relatively large subreddit.
  
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