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BarrelProof

BarrelProof

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rajangan said:
We are in that void of short hours of sunlight. So, while it might be around freezing instead of around really really freezing, it's still dark all the time, so no. While I envy your positive attitude, I can not agree. I should probably get on that vitamin D lest i start using the word void again.
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Y’all have to take vitamin D all the way down there?

Damn. Guess I thought Canucks were a little tougher than that. Is this all Canucks, or just you? Just curious because we don’t really do that up here...

And YES. It definitely feels like September. It warmed up to 35F today. First time I’ve seen above freezing in probably two months. I know most of you won’t believe me, and that’s fine, but I’ve had on shorts and flip flops for the last two days. It sucks walking through the puddles, but it’s more refreshing to feel water on the ground than it is to be cold, so the hell with it.
 
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Chasing Embers

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jpmcwjr said:
Very timely! Because I am supposed to take 3,000 IU's a day, My bottle says it's 12.5 mcg's which the pharmacy thought was equivalent. Can you confirm? I suppose I could effin google it, but if you happen to know....
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I just buy over the counter 1000 IU tablets. 75 mcg is 3000 IU

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BarrelProof

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chasingembers said:
I work 7/12.
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Totally understand why you might get it. Working graveyard all the time makes sense. But I’d just figure even in southern Canada they’d get more than enough sunlight to keep this from happening...

Are there other contributing factors? Just never studied up on this and it’s interesting to me because even up here, I don’t know anyone, or at least I don’t think I do, that has ever had this issue... Do we just get outside more? Is there something in the water? I mean they warned us about it when I got stationed up here in the army but I’ve literally never seen anyone have the problem.

Thanks for sharing your remedy, @chasingembers If I ever meet someone struggling with this, I’ll definitely point them towards the condom aisle!!
 
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canucklehead

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BarrelProof said:
Totally understand why you might get it. Working graveyard all the time makes sense. But I’d just figure even in southern Canada they’d get more than enough sunlight to keep this from happening...

Are there other contributing factors? Just never studied up on this and it’s interesting to me because even up here, I don’t know anyone, or at least I don’t think I do, that has ever had this issue... Do we just get outside more? Is there something in the water? I mean they warned us about it when I got stationed up here in the army but I’ve literally never seen anyone have the problem.

Thanks for sharing your remedy, @chasingembers If I ever meet someone struggling with this, I’ll definitely point them towards the condom aisle!!
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Division of Public Health

dhss.alaska.gov
 
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rajangan

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BarrelProof said:
Y’all have to take vitamin D all the way down there?

Damn. Guess I thought Canucks were a little tougher than that. Is this all Canucks, or just you? Just curious because we don’t really do that up here...

And YES. It definitely feels like September. It warmed up to 35F today. First time I’ve seen above freezing in probably two months. I know most of you won’t believe me, and that’s fine, but I’ve had on shorts and flip flops for the last two days. It sucks walking through the puddles, but it’s more refreshing to feel water on the ground than it is to be cold, so the hell with it.
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I would say it's more important for myself. Edmonton has about a 7 1/2hr day in December. I've worked almost exclusively at night for 22 years, so I sometimes don't see the sun for weeks at a time in the winter.
 
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condorlover1

condorlover1

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We are experiencing a cold spell here in Florida with it only getting into the low 60s yesterday. This afternoon it is supposed to hit the 70s again. Yesterday I was wearing shorts, teeshirt, shirt and a tweed jacket since it was so cold! My wife is visiting the family in Finland so she is walking into no natural daylight, snow and general all round misery.
 
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BarrelProof

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canucklehead said:

Division of Public Health

dhss.alaska.gov
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Oh I’m not saying I don’t acknowledge that it’s a thing, I’m just saying I literally don’t know anyone who has ever taken vitamin D, at least that has talked about it or shared it. Hell, they briefed us on it when I was in-processing on Fort Richardson. I’m just saying it’s almost like a myth, in my opinion. Unless lots of folks are taking the D and I just don’t hear about it at all, ever.
 
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Casual

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BarrelProof said:
As for the vitamin D thing - do we not get enough from the sun and drinking whole milk? I guess I’ve just never had a problem and never known anyone who did.

Am I just outside more than most folks?
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You’re likely deficient for part of every year. It won’t matter on its own, but it will lower your resilience for other things.

From a Harvard page:
In the northern hemisphere, people who live in Boston (U.S.), Edmonton (Canada), and Bergen (Norway) can’t make enough vitamin D from the sun for 4, 5, and 6 months out of the year, respectively. [1] In the southern hemisphere, residents of Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Cape Town (South Africa) make far less vitamin D from the sun during their winter months (June through August) than they can during their spring and summer months. [1] The body stores vitamin D from summer sun exposure, but it must last for many months. By late winter, many people in these higher-latitude locales are deficient. [2]


  1. Holick MF. Vitamin D: importance in the prevention of cancers, type 1 diabetes, heart disease, and osteoporosis. Am J Clin Nutr. 2004; 79:362-71
  2. Holick MF. Vitamin D deficiency. N Engl J Med. 2007; 357:266-81.
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cosmicfolklore

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Aug 9, 2013
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Hey Northerners, come get your weather. It's in my yard, and it's drunk. puffy

It's been very unseasonably cold here in Alabama. It got down to like 29F in the daytime earlier this week and some snow flurries. That never happens at this time of the year, here. Most of us don't even own clothes that can deal with that shit. If I wanted to be cold... I'd learn to talk funny and eat cornbread with sugar in it. Ick!
 
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mso489

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Definitely it is good to get out in sunlight this time of year, if you have it. Last year the early dark really bothered me, but I've made a routine of getting out and walking during the day. I get vitamin D from two supplements of other things, but having run the experiment, I can tell you, daylight is better, maybe for the D, but also other factors, fresh air, psychological benefits, and maybe a better input of vitamin D. Maybe the weirdness of the times has made me more adaptable too, expecting annoying obstacles in routine.
 
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