How Much Vitamin D Do You Really Need to Take? Mindi's Dogs.

Why do I need vitamin D?

"Your body must have vitamin D to absorb calcium and promote bone growth. Too little vitamin D results in soft bones in children (rickets) and fragile, misshapen bones in adults (osteomalacia). You also need vitamin D for other important body functions.

Vitamin D deficiency has now been linked to breast cancer, colon cancer, prostate cancer, heart disease, depression, weight gain, and other maladies. These studies show that people with higher levels of vitamin D have a lower risk of disease, although they do not definitively prove that lack of vitamin D causes disease -- or that vitamin D supplements would lower risk.

The Vitamin D Council -- a scientist-led group promoting vitamin D deficiency awareness -- suggests vitamin D treatment might be found helpful in treating or preventing autism, autoimmune disease, cancer, chronic pain, depression, diabetes, heart disease, high bloodpressure, flu, neuromuscular diseases, and osteoporosis. However, there have been no definitive clinical trials.

The best known benefit of vitamin D is its role in helping calcium build strong bones. But that's far from the whole story. Vitamin D helps regulate the immune system and the neuromuscular system. Vitamin D also plays major roles in the life cycle of human cells."

More at: http://www.webmd.com/osteoporosis/features/the-truth-about-vitamin-d-why-you-need-vitamin-d

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"Step 1: Make Sure You Use the Correct Test

Getting the correct test is the first step in this process, as there are TWO vitamin D tests currently being offered: 1,25(OH)D, and 25(OH)D.

The correct test your doctor needs to order is 25(OH)D, also called 25-hydroxyvitamin D, which is the better marker of overall D status. This is the marker that is most strongly associated with overall health.

Step 2: Determine Your OPTIMAL Level of Vitamin D

Here again it’s important to realize the difference between what conventional medicine considers to be “normal,” versus what is optimal.

The “normal” 25-hydroxyvitamin D lab range is between 20-56 ng/ml. As you can see in the chart below, this conventional range is really a sign of deficiency, and is too broad to be ideal.

In fact, your vitamin D level should never be below 32 ng/ml, and any levels below 20 ng/ml are considered serious deficiency states, increasing your risk of as many as 16 different cancers and autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis, just to name a few."

More at:

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/10/10/Vitamin-D-Experts-Reveal-the-Truth.aspx

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Today:

Ray and I cut the new plywood for the seat of the exerciser in the back yard.  But I hadn't had the time to buy new T-nuts, so we couldn't install it.

Then he cleaned the AC filters and fans, while I was grooming more of Mindi's dogs.

In between all this, I had to arrange for a new windshield to be installed in one of Kevin's trucks, so that it be re-inspected for it's D.O.T. inspection. Also to get the workmen's schedule going for tomorrow.  I hope Kevin can tend to all of this himself soon.

 

I couldn't do much more to Sheba, as it was more important that she was clean, but not stressed.

 

 

 

 

 

Cowgirl Punkie with her chaps.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The other three dogs that I am boarding are her husbands.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Booger is Puddin' and Caesar's pup.

 

 

These dogs live on a ranch, so they are cut short, but I finally got all the poodles done, and they all left today.