Posted by tealady on October 3, 2004, at 18:22:06
In reply to Re: Supplements for brain fog? » tealady, posted by raybakes on October 3, 2004, at 13:53:56
> Do you mean carotene to vitamin A though, haven't heard of a carotene vitamin D link?
Sure do <g>..I'm not thinking clearly at present.
(that's also why I haven't replied to some posts of yours and JL's).
Guess I tend to think of VitA and D together as in cod liver oil too.edited<g>
I know I have trouble converting carotene form VitA(skin goes an orangy color, at least before thyroid meds).
I try to get VitD thru sunlight..which is usually pretty easy where I live..and if not in cod liver oil.
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> > So now the question is is sunlight this form "1,25(OH)(2)D(3)" ? I knew to always take VitD3 form..
> > And what about cod liver ol?
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> Thanks Jan,
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> I get the orangy skin too....drank carrot juice every morning for six months until people started laughing at me :(I didn't need to go that far..just a tiny amount of beta carotene in a multi was enough. I haven't retried but I assume it would still do the same. Not sure if taking thyroid meds would help at all with that.
I have skin that went orange, blue/purple especially lips and soles of hands/feet and red patches maybe like Lupus on face ..not at the same time <g>.
took a long time to maybe figure it out, still not completely sure except for the carotene <grin>>
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> I do take vitamin A from halibut oil every now and then as I've heard hypothyroid/autoimmune people can't metabolise carotenes or plant Vit A sources - Dr Megson has done a lot research on Vit A for autistic children.
>I'll have a read sometime, thanks.
> I do try to get my Vit D through sunlight as I haven't found a supplement I can tolerate - from what I can make out Cod liver oil contains D3 (calcitriol or "1,25(OH)(2)D(3)") as do eggs and milk.What I'm not sure about is whether food sources of calcitriol will be seen as the same as D3 from sunlight....do you know?
not really...I think the sunlight is supposed to convert in your skin to the calcitriol, so it sounds the same.
Some may possibly get too much vitD from sunlight so need to cover up..talking about places like Saudi here..and maybe that's one reason for the traditional dress. I try to cover up in summer too, but there is still a big difference in skin and UV damage between England and here.
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> Like Dr Mercola's pages and links on vit D..
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> http://www.mercola.com/fcgi/pf/2004/sep/11/vitamin_d.htm
>yep, seen them thanks.
> Ray
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