low vitamin D...
If you are low - the 2000 will not do much to increase the level.
normally, most of us try to take close to 10,000 IU per day.
My D is high now ((>120), so I am planning not to take any for 2 months and then start with 50,000 IU once a week. But I also live in the south and I am outdoors at least 30 min to 1 hr every other day.
Hala. RNY 5/14/2008; Happy At Goal =HAG
"I can eat or do anything I want to - as long as I am willing to deal with the consequences"
"Failure is not falling down, It is not getting up once you fell... So pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again...."
Also, honestly, if the sun worked, why do people in the sun zones buy D3-50? Nope, they stop wearing hats and sun screens when they are diagnosed.
The sun may deliver D, which the skin converts to D3, but for some reason, the body really doesn't hold onto it long enough to be of therapeutic value. It's kinda like if you are iron anemic, the doc tells you to cook your liver in an iron skillet?
REally? If you were anemic, an iron skillet isn't going to keep your heart beating. Same concept, old wive's tale, in that a bit of sun may start your melanoma, but it won't save your bones.
Michelle
RNY, distal, 10/5/94
P.S. My year + long absence has NOTHING to do with my WLS, or my type of WLS. See my profile.
Hala. RNY 5/14/2008; Happy At Goal =HAG
"I can eat or do anything I want to - as long as I am willing to deal with the consequences"
"Failure is not falling down, It is not getting up once you fell... So pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again...."
They do this with vites all the time. Finally get ppl out of the hole and say, OK, you're fixed, stop doing what made you well.
Makes me crazy.
Michelle
RNY, distal, 10/5/94
P.S. My year + long absence has NOTHING to do with my WLS, or my type of WLS. See my profile.
