Been searching online but it gives me plenty of options, it seems.

Is it true that a low vitamin-D deficiency can make you feel a bit down in the weather, so to speak?

  • kristina [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    7·
    9 months ago

    vitamin d is big deal, esp for brown folks in cloudy and cold weather. i was very surprised to learn that my friend who had been dealing with lifelong seasonal depression wasnt aware of this, i informed him of taking vitamins in the winter and he calls me every winter season saying im a good-vibes witch

    • Beaver [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      Most people are vitamin D deficient, and so should be taking supplements. Vitamin D is synthesized by sunlight hitting our skin, but in our modern lifestyles and places we live, we hardly get any direct sunlight. Vitamin D deficiency is the reason that there was such strong evolutionary selection pressure to lower melanin production in people’s skins as early populations of people migrated away from areas with consistent sunlight - the danger of sun damage to skin was far outweighed by the need to produce enough vitamin D. And while you can get some of it form food, it’s not nearly enough (vitamin D infused milk isn’t enough!) You should be taking the large 5000IU (125 mcg) doses every day, and even that is on the low side of what your body would normally produce if you worked outside for a living.