Re: Vitamin D
Originally Posted by
Gabi
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Can't think how I've managed to past my three score years and ten. I'm still active mind g/kids, have hobbies get out and about. I must have had my sunshine hat on all my life.
on the other hand I do have many sunshine holidays but not at a nudist camp so they won't count.
Well we are both about the same age and never to old to learn aren't we?
As we get older, as has been pointed out earlier in this thread, our skin's natural ability to produce vitamin D3 (given a western type diet as this doesn't happen in primitive peoples) declines.
So the older you get the less able your skin is to create vitamin D3. When you were younger your skin was able to make more vitamin D3, you probably spent more time outdoors, you probably didn't take so many medications that deplete vitamin D, there wasn't so much pollution in the atmosphere.
We have to accept that life now isn't the same as when we were both kids.
If you want to live longer, reduce infections or lower chronic pain, avoid falling, having a higher vitamin D level enables that.
If we are going to prevent or delay the onset of dementia then one of the best ways of doing that is to keep Vitamin D levels higher than average as it's low vitamin D levels that are associated with the mild cognitive impairment that precedes Alzheimer's.
It's no good waiting until the earliest signs of dementia. We need to act before then as by the time a diagnosis is made it's too late to repair the damage or do much to prevent/delay/slow progression