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Man this board is really obsessed with vitamin d usage. Y’all even got me taking a 5000 iu pill with the K vitamin in it. Hope you’re all happy now.

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I live in Finland, where winters are short on sunlight.

Taking a vitamin D tablet once per day is a common occurence here for a lot of the population.

> Man this board is really obsessed with things that might make you less likely to die from a COVID infection

If you rewrite your first sentence this way, does it better highlight why this board is interested in this information?

I remember vit-d coming up in articles before covid.

Colds and flu can linger for weeks in the winter with low D levels.

No beyond covid the commentators here are really obsessed with vitamin d I feel, it’s just covid made the posts come more. Now I don’t mind, but the vitamin D and other threads which are just comments on scientific research kinda turn into typical Reddit /r/all threads which I can’t stand. I much prefer people’s perspective here on technology not vitamin d

Other things in that category are not as prevalent here.

Can you provide an example? I haven't seen anything as easy/cheap to address? Most of what I've seen is related to comorbidities and general health factors (weight). Nothing as easy as "Go sit in the sun for an hour and/or take this supplement".

Make sure what you're using goes through an FDA certification process.

What certification process?

Certain brands like Nature Made are certified by the FDA as having exactly the number of IUs advertised.

https://www.fda.gov/food/dietary-supplements

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