Is there anyone who needs to know about this that hasn’t heard? I don’t suppose doctors would mention it.
Here is a random article about it:
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Yes I have heard this before. I do take take Vitamin D tablets every day prescribed by my Doctor for Muscle problems.
Another of those great “keep everyone sick” scams related to this.
Sunshine is absolutely vital to us. We are creatures of Nature and we would have no life at all were it not for our Sun. The sun IS life, without it we would wither and die.
The sun provides us with lots of Vitamin D and creates Melanin.
The “establishment” and largely fraudulent Big Pharma health industry would have you stay out of the sun. They WANT YOU SICK ! How do they get you to stop doing THE most natural thing that any human can do (get in the sunshine)? By doing what they ALWAYS do, perpetrate a huge Campaign of Fear.
Oh yes me old fruits, don’t go in the sunshine, you’ll get cancer !!!
Instead slap nasty sun creams all over your skin. Block up those pores which lovely chemicals so you don’t get the benefit of the sun’s energy ! Or just stay in the shade!!!
Utter Billy BS!
The sun’s rays are life. We all need them whether we realise it or not. If you want to be healthy then spend time in the sun. No stupid creams. Just a few minutes in the sun. When it feels too hot, too uncomfortable, move out and get in the shade. Your body will tell you when it has had enough.
But boy does the body appreciate that energy ! Lot’s of natural Vitamin D and other goodness and you feel recharged and healthy. Your finger and toe nails and hair will grow faster which shows you it is having an effect.
I just despair at people thinking they will get this goodness from Vitamn D supplements. Be natural. Stop taking pills and potions and be healthy.
Erm… you do get vit D from sun but also from food. As you age it becomes harder to metabolise it. But I don’t think that has much to do with mobility other than taking cod liver oil which also has vit D can improve the synovial balance. I don’t know about recent research but when I read about this years ago when I had some transient arthritic problem the Cod liver oil apparently increases the balance of the good stuff in the lubricating part of the joint. But without trawling through it all again I am not sure whether that’s anything to do with the Vit D in it, but rather the omega 3 fatty acid that fights a destructive enzyme.
Anyway I took it for years and it seemed to work for me. I was found to be deficient in Vit D a few years ago but I didn’t have joint pains. I just felt exhausted. Getting sunburnt isn’t the answer to anything though. If you take Vit D you need calcium and all sorts to absorb one and t’other. You need a combination supplement if you have a deficiency. I found quite a good one which I took for a few years but they discontinued it.
Age simply makes it harder to get the benefits of nutrients because we are not designed to thrive after fifty.
Lack of Sunshine can lead to this.
I am always out in the sunshine Realist. My Doctor prescribed the Vit. D tablets to me as I was lacking in it for some reason.
I just got off he phone with my doctor in relation to my recent blood work. I’m deficient in vitamin D and I’m to go get a supplement.
The lovely Dr. Michael Mosley has an interesting documentary on BBC 2 9pm tonight.
It is a Horizon documentary, and is called “The Placebo Experiement - Can my Brain Cure my Body?”
It says . . “Could the power of fake pills be used to treat some of our most common medical complaints?”
Should be interesting.
yes that does sound interesting, now that is a programme I would want to watch.
With respect Realist, I think we all know about sunlight and Vit D.
I despair that you assume it’s just caused by lack of sunlight.
You obviously haven’t done enough (if any) research on why people do not absorb or retain sufficient Vit D.
You seem unable to take on board that ‘one size doesn’t fit all’ when it comes to health. I’ve said this to you before when you were sparking off in a thread about cancer.
Get off your soap box. Take on board the whole picture, widen your thoughts and accept it’s not that simple. I could list umpteen reasons why our bodies can’t absorb/retain Vit D. But I will leave you to research it.
If you have a piece of machinery that breaks down, are you going to do spray it with WD40 and think it’s fixed? Of course not, it’s more complex than that. So are our bodies.
People with Type 1 Diabetes is normally lacking in Vit. D, I don’t know why but they are.
great post
FFS!
I must show my rheumatologist your post. Christ! You do post a load of bullshit, do you have any real opinions and not just the stuff you copy from conspiracy sites?
Get a life for crying out loud!
Calm yourself sweetness, hush :-), you’ll only start him off again if you rattle his cage. :hug:
Just read this from Psychology Today when I googled ‘ Are Conspiracy Theorists mentally unstable?’
It seems that every family has an Uncle Joe—the guy who goes on and on about conspiracy theories at the holiday dinner table. The 9/11 attack was orchestrated by the government. The moon landing was filmed in Hollywood. Oswald did not act alone in the Kennedy assassination. And don’t get me started on global warming. Record low temperatures this Christmas, and you expect me to believe the world is actually getting warmer? Give me a break.
Maybe we should give Uncle Joe a break, or at least try to understand where he’s coming from. Why do some people believe in conspiracy theories anyway? This is exactly the question posed by British psychologist Karen Douglas and her colleagues in a recent article in the journal Current Directions in Psychological Science.
The researchers found that reasons for believing in conspiracy theories can be grouped into three categories:
The desire for understanding and certainty
The desire for control and security
The desire to maintain a positive self-image
It’s a long read but the answer was that they are nuttier than squirrel shit! 
Excessive exposure to sunshine gave me skin cancer.
Don’t tell him Pike! He will tell you that the Sun is controlled by the New World Order.
What’s all this about sufficient sunshine?
Aint a lot of it here from about October till next March/April is there!
Perhaps we should all go and live with Ploppy & Gummy each winter, I’m sure they’d like that. 
It’s a plot by the New World Order, they switch of the power to the Sun at this time every year! They do this in order to make us dash out and buy Vitamin D which is sold at enormous prices by Big Pharma ( the conspiracy nuts always use that phrase)
I am going to ask the girls in Boots the pharmacy, not the tasty lady in thigh highs, about Big Pharma when I collect my blue pills tomorrow.
I take vitamin D as I was very low in it and it has helped a lot with my leg pain but something I hadn’t realised is we can’t use what we get from the sun and food unless we also ingest fat because it’s a fat soluble vitamin. Low fat diets I believe may be causing a lot of this. Also it helps to take calcium magnesium and vitamin c to really get the best out of the vitamin d supplement.
Magnesium can be bought as a powder you dilute and put in a spray bottle and just squirt it on your tummy once a day.