Having heard recently a possible connection with Vitamin D deficiancy and Diabetes, what are your thoughts on this? I always avoided the sun in my twenties, never liked the heat. Spent much of my childhood on the east coast in the u.k. Pretty cold, pretty rainy, not a great deal of sun, except during summer . Just wondered if the sunshine connection is really that important. How many LADAs spent much of there time avoiding the sun? I do take about 5-10 iu vitamin d3 a day now. Complexion is better (i look less pale, have more energy. BG might be slightly lower aswell.
I am not a confirmed LADA (do they exist?), but I will tell you my personal experience. I argued for a vit D test for some time (most of my doctors consider me a pain) and finally I got a new endo last year who ordered a vit D test. Although I was already taking several thousand IUs of vit D3 a day and it was the end of summer and I had a dark tan, I was still badly deficient. I supplement with 8,000 IUs/day and have been tested in the normal range. Sadly, I am still diabetic and restoring normal vitamin D levels had no detected change in my health.
You may want to watch this video. Here is the link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTtmvMvgfl0
Helmut supplied this link some time ago and explains the Vitamin D Link to diabetes.
This is an excerpt from this article here: http://forecast.diabetes.org/magazine/features/why-me-understanding-causes-diabetes
“Beta cells are vulnerable to more than just bad genes, which may explain the associations between type 2 diabetes and environmental factors that aren’t related to how much fat a body has or where it is stored. Beta cells carry vitamin D receptors on their surface, and people with vitamin D deficiency are at increased risk for type 2. Plus, several studies have shown that people with higher levels of toxic substances in their blood—such as from the PCBs found in fish fat—are at increased risk of type 2 diabetes, though a cause-and-effect relationship hasn’t been proved. (Toxic substances and vitamin D have also been implicated in type 1 diabetes, but the disease mechanism may be unrelated to what’s going on in type 2.)”
This is someting that researchers are looking into more.
The sun is still the best source of Vitamin D. Fifteen minutes of direct exposure is supposed to give you enough D to last 24 hours - so if you spend days with no direct sun exposure, I could see how one could become deficient.
There is plethora of literature on a link between Vit. D and several ailments including diabetes. If you were to do a literature search on the subject it will be make sense. Mostly it is in the prevention of diabetes. The Scandinavian countries have a high record of diabetes partly because the sun is not in abundance. The sun helps the body to metabolize Vit D. with in turns helps the body to use Calcium. I remember some years ago there was a big discussion about purchasing Milk in a carton and not in a gallon jug because the milk would be exposed to light. This would break down the Vit D. I worked night shift for the past 6 years and my Endo had me on Vit D pills till recently because I started being in the day light more.
Yep-- very common and higly recommended to take a D3 supplement… 1,000 IU daily if your indoors alot and especially during the Fall-Winter months Up north… and ask to have your VD levels tested along with your reg. lab tests… sb in the 35 reading level they say… Can Google Vit D… for details.
If defecient? I was told to take 5,000 IU’s for a Month and come back in and then 1k /day ever since…
Our D eats up nutrients in our system and our auto immune disease helps it along…trying to kill not just our Ilset cells, but everything else…