Blood Work for Vegans?

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Colin Campbell offers a thorough and understandable Vitamin D

explanation in The China Study. I recommend it highly. Also check

out www.drmcdougall.com for further research. As I understand it, we

absorb vitamin D from being outside in the daylight, sunny or not.

The current research seems to be questionable as to whether we

actually receive benefit from taking D in tablet form. Hope you find

something helpful in all this!

 

Jocelyn

 

, " mstrong56 " <mstrong

wrote:

>

> I use this D2

> http://drfuhrman.com/shop/supplements.aspx

>

> , " threefatesfiber " <maryl4@>

> wrote:

> >

> > Other than the vitamin supplement your doctor recommended and

> getting

> > more sunlight, which may not be possible at your latitude, I

think

> > your options will probably be fortified grain products or

fortified

> > soy milk. Unfortunately the foods richest in vit D are animal

> products.

> >

> > At least your doctor suggested vit D2, which is plant- or

> > fungus-derived, rather than D3, which is typically of animal

origin.

> >

> > Sorry you didn't get better news.

> >

> > , " walker_nospam "

> > <walker_nospam@> wrote:

> > >

> > > Great... well, not so much. Just got a phone call from the

> doctor's

> > > office, and I'm low in Vit. D, and they want to put me on

> something

> > > called Ergocalciferol. Just did a quick Google, and it's

Vitamin

> D2?

> > > Put out by a big pharmaceutical company. I do not like the

idea of

> > > this AT ALL.

> > >

> > > I know that I'm not getting enough sunshine at this time of

year,

> and

> > > I think that the general population even has an issue with

> Vitamin D,

> > > even the non-vegans. I am so against the idea of " popping a

pill "

> and

> > > will just have to figure out how I can enhance my diet and

> exercise to

> > > make up for this deficiency!

> > >

> >

>