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Zero999:

--- Quote from: Mr. Scram on March 02, 2018, 05:01:24 pm ---
--- Quote from: RandallMcRee on February 28, 2018, 12:34:48 am ---Vitamin D is hardly a placebo. I have a prescription for it from my doctor! And I'm in sunny California.

Come on folks! Vitamins are real and have real effects!

Better living through chemistry.  ;)

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A doctor prescribed drug is not only generally more potent than over the counter stuff, but also prescribed by an expert. The potential difference seems pretty obvious. A lamps burns kerosene with the aid of oxygen. A rocket engine burns kerosene with the aid of oxygen. Yet your lamp is not a rocket engine.

Mind you,  I'm not saying taking vitamin D can't work or doesn't work. It's just the self rapporting after self prescribing I'm wary of, regardless of who it is and what you take.

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In this case, oerhaps taking vitamin D acted as a placebo, or maybe they really did have a deficiency and it wasn't a placebo?

You don't know without talking blood tests, so it's impossible to know by reading someone's posts on the Internet, whether it's placebo or real.
Mr. Scram:

--- Quote from: Hero999 on March 02, 2018, 09:53:05 pm ---In this case, oerhaps taking vitamin D acted as a placebo, or maybe they really did have a deficiency and it wasn't a placebo?

You don't know without talking blood tests, so it's impossible to know by reading someone's posts on the Internet, whether it's placebo or real.

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Exactly, you don't know. :)
theleakydiode:
I was advised to take it by my GP after the usual routine checkup, and since we have the NHS they wouldn't give out this sort of thing if it didn't work.
FrankE:
This can be a very solitary and consuming endeavour - IF you let it be.

Are you getting exercise, socialising, engaging with others, meeting MOTOS/SS/whatever? It's good to have a variety of activities on your plate, some regular, some spontaneous, some solitary, some with others, some gekky, some less so. If you have to juggle some all the better.Broadening experiences and horizons can help and scheduled activities can stop thing getting chaotic.
Changing one's daily activity schedule can help, eg playing uplifting music in the morning to help you out of bed and get you on your way.

Living with the 'rental units I've found can be very demotivating and it's often socially frowned upon, sometimes quite angrily so. I cared for my late dad who had a number of late and EOL health issues and couldn't have friends round, let alone women. The same for my late mum in her EOL.

You needn't do electronics on your own. There are hackspaces and makespaces all over.
I was at one for a year and a half and achieved naff all but it was fun.
Zero999:

--- Quote from: theleakydiode on March 03, 2018, 01:04:21 am ---I was advised to take it by my GP after the usual routine checkup, and since we have the NHS they wouldn't give out this sort of thing if it didn't work.

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It's quite likely the symptoms you had matched vitamin D deficiency so the doctor recommended it. If you have darker coloured skin then it's likely the doctor would routinely recommend taking vitamin D between November and March.

I also dispute the part about the NHS not giving out medications which won't help: doctors routinely prescribe antibiotics, to patents who won't benefit from them and will just suffer from side effects and increase antibiotic resistance.

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