I found the article to be true, I have been testing my depressed patients dor vitamin D deficicency, most of the are low in vit. D

Hmmn.. well maybe older people don't get enough sunshine. A lot of them can't take the sun like when they are younger and a lot of medications have the caveat of avoiding sun exposure. Sunshine is a great source of vitamin D. Case in point, a former classmates mother in her 80's, who used to vacation in FL every year, and still wears the same 2 piece bright yellow bikin she was wearing 50 yrs ago, is still full of vim and vigor. She's also a big coffee drinker and something of a drunk...

"Before any strategies to boost vitamin D can be adopted they must be tested in larger and more rigorously designed trials?" HUH? This is not new science... Every time a large group of subjects is tested for vitamin D levels, they come up 50 to 95 percent deficient. What are they waiting for? Vitamin D is not going to kill anyone, or even make them ill.

Of course, we're not talking about a profitable new drug therapy. Vitamin D is free.

I think thus has a huge element of truth to it. With or without scientific research, and only going by my own experience, I'm taking Vitamin D for other things and my health has improved overall.

My husband used to swear by it, so I started taking it on his advice. It's been written that vitamin D is good for our bones, also. It certainly does not seem to be hurting anything, and I feel much better, arthritis knee and a foot with Psoriasis-Arthritis which I never heard of until six months ago!

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