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Does food not come from the grocery store enriched with Vitamin D for this purpose?
by Blackthorn 12y ago
Does food not come from the grocery store enriched with Vitamin D for this purpose?
- kazinator 12y agoYes, some of it does; but the doses are ridiculously small.
- matznerd 12y agoMilk is fortified with Vitamin D, but only about 100 IU per serving, so you would need to have around 50 glasses a day to get it. Do you know anyone who drinks that much milk?
- mitchty 12y agoI drink a gallon of milk about every 3 days. Even at that rate its a bit too much.
- ChrisNorstrom 12y agoI'd be careful if I were you. I drank about half as much as you and my hair starting falling out after a month. When I stopped drinking the milk, my hair started growing back.
- ChrisNorstrom 12y ago??? Why would you downvote an HN member for giving a health warning about drinking massive amounts of milk? YES, I went to my doctor, yes we determined milk was the cause of the hair loss. Especially when I drank it at night before bedtime. Our closest guess was that some people have sensitivities to the hormones in milk. There are also cases of men growing breasts due to large quantities of soy milk which increase estrogen.
- lxmorj 12y agoYes but the RDA is 600 IU. That's remarkably effective at preventing rickets, but not optimal. 5,000 IU seems to be closer to optimal, and well below the toxicity levels. You know, so I've read... Edit: Good Job Team!