{"id":523,"date":"2014-07-12T10:58:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T10:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indianbodybuilding.co.in\/Articles\/?p=523"},"modified":"2014-07-12T10:58:19","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T10:58:19","slug":"really-need-vitamin-d-supplement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianbodybuilding.co.in\/Articles\/really-need-vitamin-d-supplement\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you really need a vitamin D supplement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" ><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Main_336x280 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:336px;height:280px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3247500487073208\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"9364966176\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><\/div>The Lancet Endocrinology study has been all over the news because of its results \u2014 that there are zero to little benefits to be gained from taking vitamin D supplements. What?! So many other studies have shown that more than 80 per cent of the population is vitamin D deficient \u2014 which is a big problem because D improves everything from disease prevention (immunity) to fat loss. Ah, but a closer look at the Lancet study reveals the truth. <\/p>\n<p>According to nutrition researcher Jerry Brainum, \u201cThe dose of D in the Lancet examination was 400 to 800 units a day; however, the majority of studies that do show health benefits from D suggested\u2026an intake of about 2,000 units a day.\u201d In other words, the flawed Lancet study undershot the beneficial dose of vitamin D by more than half. (It reminds me of the study done in the \u201980s that showed that anabolic steroids don\u2019t work \u2014 again, because the researchers used miniscule amounts that did nothing. C\u2019mon, guys. Sheesh.) Now, the 800 I.U. of vitamin D in the study may sound like a lot, but get this: only five minutes in the summer sun produces about 1,000 I.U. of vitamin D in our bodies. Most people should be taking 2,000 to 5,000 units per day, depending on sun exposure, especially in the winter, when we need to boost our immunity against colds and flu. And it\u2019s not expensive.<\/p>\n<div class=\"e3lan e3lan-in-post1\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Article_Banner -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:468px;height:60px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3247500487073208\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"2023057778\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lancet Endocrinology study has been all over the news because of its results \u2014 that there are zero to little benefits to be gained from taking vitamin D supplements. What?! So many other studies have shown that more than 80 per cent of the population is vitamin D deficient \u2014 which is a big &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianbodybuilding.co.in\/Articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianbodybuilding.co.in\/Articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianbodybuilding.co.in\/Articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianbodybuilding.co.in\/Articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianbodybuilding.co.in\/Articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianbodybuilding.co.in\/Articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianbodybuilding.co.in\/Articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianbodybuilding.co.in\/Articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianbodybuilding.co.in\/Articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianbodybuilding.co.in\/Articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}