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Seattle has a severe Vitamin D deficiency, due to almost year-round cloudiness. I wonder if that has anything to do with the Seattle outbreak. I live only 3 m
by pcvarmint 7y ago
Seattle has a severe Vitamin D deficiency, due to almost year-round cloudiness.
I wonder if that has anything to do with the Seattle outbreak.
I live only 3 miles from the Life Care Center nursing home. So far no coronavirus symptoms, but I'm staying home.
I was diagnosed with osteomalacia in my 40s, with a DEXA Z score of -5, and I have suffered bone fractures three times, two of them spontaneously. I'm currently taking Fosamax (Alendronate), mega-Vitamin D (10,000+ IU a day), and Calcium.
- mrfusion 7y agoSurprisingly they have one of the highest rates of skin cancer too. I could never figure that one out.
- jschwartzi 7y agoThere's still a lot of UV that comes in through the cloud layer. It's one of the reasons it's recommended to wear sunglasses and sunscreen if you're hiking on snow on a cloudy day. You can still sunburn the inside of your eyes from UV exposure, and because it's not visible light your iris doesn't react to it the same way it would on a bright sunny day.
- WalterSear 7y agoBut, as a cause of skin cancer, that would preclude vitamin D deficiency, since it is also dependent on UV exposure.
- enterabdazer 7y agoUV is a spectrum. UV-B is responsible for vitamin D production. Very little UV-B reaches us, even during the summer in the northern hemisphere. UV-A does damage, and reaches us much more strongly. You can receive damaging UV exposure while producing little to no vitamin D. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet#/media/File:Ozone_altitude_UV_graph.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet#/media/File:Ozone_...
- WalterSear 7y agoI see.
- mygo 7y agoThere’s lots of Vitamin D in Florida. There are Seattle-level outbreaks there, too. Just a few weeks behind.