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(1) Whether you regard regular vitamin D intake is important enough to
act upon
Yes, I live in the interior of Alaska, and when I quite drinking
D-fortified dairy products in January 1996, I immediately noticed signs
of Seasonal Affective Disorder. Now that I'm middle-aged, I notice the
effects even in the summer.
(2) If you do, what do you do to boost your vitamin D intake during winter
I supplement, and as the date above implies, I have been doing so long
before it became fashionable. Fifteen years ago I was able to get away
with just taking vitamin D from fall equinox to spring equinox. As I've
gotten a bit more "mature" I have begun to supplement year round, and
increase to winter levels in early September. When I forget to
increase, I notice it by equinox, and it takes a couple weeks to get my
brain back on track.
(3) Whether you regard the strategy you use to maintain your vitamin D
levels as "paleo"?
Paleo would be living where I could get adequate sunlight for my vitamin
D needs. I don't. But I do the best I can and supplement with fish
oil-based D3. I also have the advantage of a year-round supply of
wild-caught fish at the market, as well as Copper River reds and king
salmon from neighbors. But I can't eat enough fish to give me what I
need this far north.
(4) What is your opinion and your experience of sun lamps?
They are a bother to deal with in my otherwise busy and cluttered life.
Much easier to just take my D (and it's always best for absorption to do
so with a fatty meal, which is easy to do when eating paleo).
Lisa
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