Is it just me or is anyone else getting tired off all the BS we have to suffer in everyday life. In the background I’m listening to the “news” The latest thing here in the UK, vitaminD! specifically VitaminD deficiency in kids, apparently from 6 months to 5 years we should be administering this to our kids. Forget about ensuring they have a healthy diet just pop another pill or purchase another product containing this magical elixir. Maybe if they weren’t telling everyone to stay out of the sun there wouldn’t be the deficiency that there supposedly is. Is this just another in a long line of marketing strategy to separate us from our hard earned cash. I wonder how long into the future before someone says there’s an issue with folks having absorbed too much vitaminD. Try not to get too depressed thinking about it and if you do don’t worry because they’re starting to treat depression with the magic ingredient from magic mushrooms… That’ll be funny 
I could go on but I’ve got to rush out and grab a supply of vitaminD. For fun what rants and gripes do other people have??? Maybe it’s just me and the fact that I’m rapidly approaching telogen where being miserable is mandatory 
Is there a reason why this in the electrolysis forum? Perhaps you wanted to comment on something else but can’t talk directly?
Calcium needs Vitamin D, in order for the calcium to get into the bones, so it is a big deal for those that live in areas where they can’t routinely get at least 10-20 minutes of sunshine everyday. This is not BS. Many people are walking around with very low levels of Vitamin D. A blood test can determine what your level is. Mine was low, but has been corrected with supplementation.
We have a ‘Share your feelings’ section for future rants.
Medication in search of a disease (?)
Too funny “Follizap.” (BTW, if you’re in telogen then I’m already shed!)
Dr. Sizner’s book “Sunshine” is a real “eye opener” as far as sunlight needed to produce Vitamin D, maintain proper hormone levels, avoid hypertension and negate many other modern-day illnesses. My comment is how a “syndrome/illness” develops when a medication is discovered to help the medical “situation.”
My mother had “jumpy legs” and I inherited a form of it. Her doctor told her that she just had “jumpy legs” and to live with it. Today, they discovered a drug (low-dose Parkinson’s medication) that is said to “cure” this problem. Of course, now that we have the drug, the manufacturers are advertising “Restless Leg Syndrome” all over the place. Wow, just think of it: a brand new disease!
I tried the medication and it made me sick. So, big deal, I have a little “twitchy” in my legs at night. Clearly nobody dies from this “syndrome.” Still, taking the medication might cause problems in the long run. Gotta love “Capitalism!” And I do, really I do.
Just a few things about RLS
I tell everyone that if they think they have RLS, fist take some Magnesium and see if it doesn’t go away. (interesting thing is that one of the side effects of the RLS meds is loss of impulse control and easier susceptibility to addictions. Strangely, more prescripts are given in an area when a casino opens up. Oh, but there can’t be any connection between the two.)
Restless Leg Syndrome can be controlled with regular light exercises like walking and simple stretching workouts. Yoga drills are also useful in the management of the disorder. Initially it was seen that Restless Leg Syndrome worsened while resting after exercise. It had something to do the enzyme dopamine which is secreted by our bodies when we exercise. Doctors have now found ways to circumvent the problems and prescribe medications that keeps the Restless Leg Syndrome under control.
Although the exact cause of RLS is unknown, a number of conditions are associated with it including:
•Iron deficiency
•Low dopamine levels
•Lesions within the spinal cord or peripheral nerves
•Pregnancy-related deficiencies in iron, folate, and magnesium (Lee KA et al 2001; Manconi M et al 2004)
•Kidney disease, particularly end-stage kidney disease
•Medications, such as tricyclic antidepressants, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, lithium, and caffeine (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute 2000)
But proper management of diet helps in better control over Restless Leg Syndrome. It has been found that something in carbohydrates and starches in food aggravates the Restless Leg Syndrome. Similarly iron rich nutrients in food are known to alleviate the symptoms. Tea, coffee, aerated soft drinks, chocolates and intake of caffeine in all its forms on the other hand aggravated the symptoms and their intake have to reduced or avoided altogether as for unknown reasons they have been found to aggravate the Restless Leg Syndrome.
I agree, it’s easy to go overboard with such things but they certainly can be helpful. I used to have severe SAD until I started taking Vitamin D3 in the wintertime, so personally I’m pretty glad it exists.
And now that James mentioned caffeine as a jumpy leg aggravator it all makes so MUCH more sense now. Unfortunately I’m not ready to forgo unless I’m planning to have electrolysis that day. 
Caffeine is over rated. It only occurs in so many food items because slave holders once found that it had the dual benefit of making people eat less, and more easy to accept orders, just so long as they got regular doses. The jitters made them increase their work output as well, if the work was physical. So for many, it was Coffee in the morning, tea in the afternoon, and Rum at night.
A much better way to start the day is with fresh squeezed orange juice, and while you are breaking the caffeine addiction, 1,000 to 2,000 mg of tyrosine and the same amount of taurine, taken every 4 hours starting at the time you awake, until the time you go to sleep.
I’ve had Vitamin D deficiency (on and off) since 2 years. I’m not sure how good Vitamin D supplementation is(I hope it is though!) A few new studies are postulating that Vitamin D is actually an immunosuppressant and although, in the short term, vitamin D supplementation may provide relief from some diseases, in the long run, it will actually do more harm than good. Further, one study also suggests that many old studies which linked low vitamin D levels to several diseases are flawed in their data analysis. Low levels of vitamin D could actually be the ‘effect’ of those diseases rather than the ‘cause’. I’ve suffered from 2 skin infections on and off in the last 1.5 years and both the infections I suffered from have been linked to low levels of Vitamin D and so I’m going to continue taking supplements but at one point, when I’m done with laser and photosensitivity becomes less of an issue, I’d like to get Vitamin D in my body from sun and not supplements.
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Don’t fall for the old “vitamins are dangerous, just keep taking our pharmaceuticals” argument. That is more about money than science.
First of all, every last pharmaceutical has a food based origin. Why, just yesterday, a friend of mine was talking about a problem she was having with her daughter, who has a disease that strikes only 300 people a year. While the doctors say it is incurable, there is a drug that appeared to cure it in 3 months, but was taken off the market. That drug was a form of Vitamin A. Other research on the matter suggested that heavy metal chelation cleansing would also be beneficial. I told my friend that the good news is that Vitamin A is still available in its food form, and in vitamin supplements, and cilantro is a great heavy metal chelator.
Now when it comes to Vitamin D, your choices are not limited to sunshine or pills. (and while I am on the subject, most pills are vitamin D-2 but the most bio-available form is D-3) You can also get vitamin D from food sources like fish. That is how natives in Alaska endured months with no sun without suffering from D vitamin deficiency.
One more thing; it is very easy to do a study that appears to say that vitamins don’t work, or are bad for you. You simply need to design a study that utilizes to small an amount, or a form that is less absorbable by the body, or in the rare case when a vitamin or mineral has an easily reached toxic dose, test somewhere around that range.
So take care of your D issues with a good Vitamin D-3 supplement or fish oil or increase your intake of fish.