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When you’re unwell the focus is naturally more on the self than others. Vitamin D does wonders.
by orasis 8y ago
When you’re unwell the focus is naturally more on the self than others.
Vitamin D does wonders.
- tyre 8y agoVitamin D is not a medication for depression. Lack of vitamin D can cause depression but it does not “do wonders” for people suffering from depression.
- wongarsu 8y agoIf your depression is caused by lack of vitamin D it stands to reason that vitamin D helps fighting it. But not every depression is caused by vitamin D deficiency, so it doesn't always do wonders
- acpetrov 8y agoMoving from Canada to California did a lot to help my depression. It's hard to not feel good on a beautiful sunny day
- Broken_Hippo 8y agoI'm happy that worked out for you. To be fair, however, moving from the US to Norway has done wonders to help with mine. But I understand that could easily be that outside stressors are different and I'm in a much more stable and healthy environment than I was previously. I'm also in a situation that I chose. All of it, all of my everyday life is in a situation I chose. I also rather like being an immigrant, it turns out. I'm going to guess you have some of these feelings too. Not everyone can say that. And as it turns out, my experience about beautiful days is different from yours. I find it is quite easy not to feel good on a beautiful day. Doubly so if you feel too ugly to go outside, better about yourself when you can wear a jacket, if you are in a bad situation, stressed, sick, stuck, and so on.
- salamanderman 8y agoSeasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is its own thing, and yes, bright sunlight or artificial sunlight is the primary treatment.
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- chillwaves 8y agoThat may be true but studies have shown that most people in the US are deficient. Our indoor lifestyle is to blame, and vit D is not readily available in food as other nutrients are. It is either sun or supplements.
- BeetleB 8y ago>Vitamin D does wonders. Except in studies, where it is still inconclusive. For general supplement research, I tend to look at: http://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/snake-oil-scientific-evidence-for-nutritional-supplements-vizsweet/ http://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/snake-oil-s...
- bitwize 8y ago> Except in studies, where it is still inconclusive. Please, this is Hackernews! Here we give more weight to webshit-programmer folk medicine than to big-pharma-funded "science". A raw plant-based diet, ayurveda, rolfing, and supplements of whatever micronutrients you're deficient in (probably most or all of them) should fix you right up.
- dang 8y agoPlease don't degrade this site further by posting dross like this.
- byproxy 8y agoInteresting site. I generally read what Examine.com (https://examine.com/supplements/vitamin-d/ https://examine.com/supplements/vitamin-d/) has to say about a supplement.
- DenisM 8y agoMore specifically https://examine.com/nutrition/vitamin-d-and-depression/ https://examine.com/nutrition/vitamin-d-and-depression/
- njarboe 8y agoI would guess that most human health issues that are universal across the species have been discovered at this point. Vitamin C and Iodine deficiencies cause serious problems for all humans. Large studies that see some small effect are likely to be variance where a few people are have large positive effects and others not or even negative. That is your individual genetics and other factors are going to determine if some advice is useful for you. Listening to your parents and grandparents is probably more useful than reading almost all modern health studies.