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SiliconWizard:
Many vitamins, including vitamin D, are easily eliminated by the body when in excess, so unless you take absurd doses, or you have a specific health issue (renal insufficiency or something), it's pretty safe.
Now of course you should ask for medical advice anyway before taking that, and have a blood analysis to see where you stand.
PlainName:

--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on June 07, 2020, 04:53:50 pm ---
--- Quote from: Bud on June 07, 2020, 01:49:49 pm ---So what is the problem, it is an easy fix. Got to the nearest pharmacy and buy vitamin D.

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It's an easy fix once people actually know about it.

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But then there won't be any left to buy on account of panic buying. Again.
Red Squirrel:
Got an email from corporate that we can expect to work from home until at very least end of summer.  I'm ok with that.  They still insist that 1 person is in the office though, so we chose that the 12h shift   stays as it just makes it easier.  12h day and 12h night and we just arranged it so we work more of those in a row to avoid moving equipment back and forth.  I volunteered to go on mostly 12s since it means more time off so I'm usually at the office, but I did get to work from home too a few times when I was on 8h shifts.  Could get used to that!  Though being alone in the office is kind of nice too.   The 4pm guy always cooks up some nasty stuff and stinks up the whole office and he's not around to do that now.  Man whatever he cooks up is so potent, the smell usually lingers for several hours.  It even makes it into the equipment rooms.  Would not surprise me it gets sucked up by the air dryer and the cable guys get a whiff of that if they need to open up a cable splice box. 
Zero999:

--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on June 07, 2020, 11:00:52 pm ---Many vitamins, including vitamin D, are easily eliminated by the body when in excess, so unless you take absurd doses, or you have a specific health issue (renal insufficiency or something), it's pretty safe.
Now of course you should ask for medical advice anyway before taking that, and have a blood analysis to see where you stand.

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Unfortunately fat soluble vitamins such as D aresn't easilly eliminated from the body, when there's an excess, but recommended daily does is a tiny fraction of what's harmful and should be safe to take, even without medical advice. If there was a significant risk from taking the standard dose sold in pharmacies, then it would only be available on prescription.

If a certain demographic is known to have a high prevelance of vitamin D deficiency, it makes more sense to just give them free suplements, rather than testing every one of them, which would be expensive. Fortification of food is another posibility, but it needs to be a staple part of their diet, contain, or be eaten with fat to be effective. In the US, milk is widely fortified with vitamin A & D, but they tend to have fat free milk, so it's not that effective, unless it's consumed with a fatty food. Here in the UK fresh milk isn't fortified and semiskimmed milk is the most popular type, so fortification would make a lot of sense.
nctnico:

--- Quote from: Zero999 on June 08, 2020, 07:59:47 am ---If there was a significant risk from taking the standard dose sold in pharmacies, then it would only be available on prescription.

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That is wishfull thinking. A while ago I read a test in a consumer magazine and they found that there where several types of vitamin tablets which had harmful doses. If it isn't regulated it isn't regulated.
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