In Australia, to get a sufficient amount of vitamin D you just need to be outside for a few minutes a day.
Tasmania enters the chat. As repeated on The Health Report some podcats ago, you can lie naked outdoors for hours in winter and not get anough sun exposure to impact D levels.
That’s the claim and I used to echo it, but with near daily walks (weather permitting) plus hikes when weekends permit, plus gardening, I’m still deficient. Same story for almost everyone I work and exercise with.
There’s either more to it or the claim doesn’t hold up empirically
In Australia, to get a sufficient amount of vitamin D you just need to be outside for a few minutes a day.
Incidental exposure is enough. No deliberate cooking or tanning or seeking out the sun is needed.
Tasmania enters the chat. As repeated on The Health Report some podcats ago, you can lie naked outdoors for hours in winter and not get anough sun exposure to impact D levels.
Australia is a big place
That’s the claim and I used to echo it, but with near daily walks (weather permitting) plus hikes when weekends permit, plus gardening, I’m still deficient. Same story for almost everyone I work and exercise with.
There’s either more to it or the claim doesn’t hold up empirically
I dunno about you, but I’d much rather take a vitamin D supplement/vitamin E fortified foods, than get skin cancer
Make sure you take vitamin k mix or vit d supplement can calcify arteries
Also I think E causes lung cancer in supplement form
ABC radio had a piece on this yesterday saying our multiple sclerosis rates are rising from sun avoidance