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Sweden here. My partner is a doctor, she claims with assurance that you can't make a carpet decision like this. People who come from norther latitudes are used
by kaztal 7y ago
Sweden here. My partner is a doctor, she claims with assurance that you can't make a carpet decision like this. People who come from norther latitudes are used to the lack of sun, and their bodies don't need more vitamin D than is provided. Depending on your heritage, ymvm.
- leto_ii 7y agoIt may still be worth taking a blood test, especially if you have some symptoms that match vitamin D deficiency.
- v77 7y agoMost people in North America are not from northern latitudes genetically unless we are talking about the UK and Germany and even then..
- orasis 7y agoHuh? Europe is generally populated further north than North America is.
- BurningFrog 7y agoSwedes need as much vitamin D as anyone, but usually get it from their diet. Herring is a vitamin D gold mine, for example :)
- abainbridge 7y agoThat seems implausible. Obviously there was evolutionary pressure on northern Europeans to tolerate lower levels of sunlight and no doubt adaption happened. However, I expect even Swedes evolved in an environment that included more time outdoors than a modern Swedish office worker gets. So, in the absence of any actual evidence, I'd still expect a problem. On top of that, there is some evidence. Basically all the papers found by this search show some evidence of vitamin D deficiency in Swedish people: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?start=10&q=sweden+vitamin+d&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5 https://scholar.google.com/scholar?start=10&q=sweden+vitamin...
- SketchySeaBeast 7y agoThe first two articles I get from that search looks at vitamin d and the older population, and the third[1] suggests that even in sub-arctic elevations "Adequate levels were found in 79.2%, more often in women (82.7%) than in men (75.6%). Only 0.7% of the population were vitamin D3–deficient but 23.1% of men and 17.1% of women had insufficient levels." That doesn't seem too damning. At the end of the day I don't know enough, so I'm not making the claim about Vitamin D quantities, but isn't the evidence that there was at least some form of adaptation evident based upon skin tone alone? https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3402/ijch.v74.27963 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3402/ijch.v74.27963
- nitrogen 7y agoI wonder, have any northern populations developed an instinctive winter hibernation adaptation?
- abainbridge 7y agoI already agreed there was adaption. I just can't see how there can have been adaption for an _indoor_ life at northern latitudes. That's doubly hard, compared to a traditional life in northern latitudes, right? Although, to argue against myself, I guess if you go far enough north, people won't be getting any sunlight in the winter even if they are outdoors all the time. People there must have adapted to that. I guess by eating things with lots of vitamin D.
- therealcamino 7y agoI love the phrase "carpet decision". Although we don't have it in English, I'm guessing it's roughly equivalent to "blanket statement", something that applies in all cases without exception?
- preben 7y agoVery much what I meant. Happy the meaning went through.