Vitamin D improved appearance?

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Take a look at the following 3 pictures. One of them shows me after being sun deprived for nearly a year in law school. One is a week after beginning Vitamin D supplementation. Another one is after two months of 4000/iu per day. Could Vitamin D explain the changes in appearance? Can you guess which ones are which?







If 20,000 iu/day is the normal dosage from sun exposure, should I be taking this much orally on days I don't get out in the sun (most days)?

vitamin D is fat-soluble, therefore is likely to accumulate in the body if you take too much too soon for too long. 4000 IU per day is considered the maximum safe supplemental dosage, regardless of sun exposure.

Looks like you've dropped a bunch of weight between pictures one and three...definitely looking healthiest in picture three, in my opinion.

One thing to remember from sun exposure is that the body shuts down the process quite effectively after you have a certain amount.

As far as being in the sun, if that is in the early morning or late afternoon, it doesn't matter much anyway. To maximize your Vitamin D from the sun, noontime is about the best. And in the winter time, unless you are in areas closer to the equator, then sun exposure won't help anyway. If you are black your ability to produce Vitamin D will be diminished, as well.

Looks like you lost some weight... But is that "Tennis Elbow" I see?

Just a word of warning - please be careful with supplements. I'm assuming you are staying in Austin just now. Where you stay is not somewhere that could be described as lacking in sunlight, even in winter. Unless you're only going out before sunrise and after sunset, you should be getting enough vit D, just walking to and from class. You're white and live somewhere sunny, so you're not really at risk of deficiency, due to lack of sunlight. Where I stay is a completely different situation. Months can go by with us hardly being aware that there's even a sun in the sky. Vitamin D deficiency is a real problem here.

Good looking man.

There is the weight loss, but your actual skin tone seems to be improved, as well, which might the Vitamin D. I wouldn't overdo that stuff, though. I try to get mine from eating fish.

My younger daughter is on a prescribed weekly vit D suppliment and a daily folic acid suppliment due to a deficiency they found in her bloodwork. The doctor said that correcting the vit D deficiency will help her lose weight that she hasn't been able to lose.

My older daughters fiance had a vit D deficiency when he was about 15 and he was also a bit chubby then and he lost all that weight after he had been taking it for a couple of months.

Apparantly there is some link.

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If it was affordable, i'd do that also, but such tests are not covered in bronze plans.

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I was taking Vit D3 and a Multivitamin daily for like the last, well, 12 months, stupidly.

I may be young but damnit I've got to be careful so I'm cutting back myself.

Maybe Monday, Wednesday, Friday.

I take some stress and anxiety relief supplements - recommended dosage is twice per day for each, but I only take one pill of both bottles two days a week.

It's definitely the best of both worlds - you get to experience the benefits of supplements and such without having high health risks.

Also, the less you take something, the longer it takes your body to build tolerance.

A one week break from all supplements and ailments every month to refresh the body and lose tolerance to regain its effects is also beneficial.

my last physical which was back in June or so of last year said that I had low Vitamin D. I had never had low vitamin D before so I just kinda linked it to the fact that I had not only become a full time vegatarian at that time but was actually in the process of becoming vegan as well. Now I take a vegan vitamin D supplement and while I haven't been back to the doctors for my psychical to check just yet I definitely felt the difference right away.