Comments by "MarcosElMalo2" (@MarcosElMalo2) on "Dr. John Campbell"
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Thanks for sharing your story! While I don’t believe anecdotes are a replacement for large datasets, I found your experience to be both encouraging and interesting. I’m also very glad to hear your doing much better with the gout. With regard to dosage, I’m taking 2,000 ui. I understand that requirements to avoid deficiencies will vary from person to person, although the dosage ceiling is pretty high before there are any adverse affects (one MD I follow is taking 10,000 ui, for example). I’d be interested to know more about your raising your dose from 2k to 5k, and how you felt it helped you.
As it stands, after a week of 2000 iu, my urine got slightly darker and brighter, which I believe indicates that some of the vitamin D-3 is not being absorbed. Haha, it’s all good as long as there’s no blood and it doesn’t burn, right?
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I can’t say I’m doing perfectly fine, but I seem to be handling the isolation much better than others as I’m more comfortable with extended solitude. However, pre-pandemic, I could and did participate in my community and socializing when I wanted. And I made it a point to get outside (and get out of my head) to be of service to my community (mostly teaching kids English in my working class neighborhood in Mexico).
I’m still subject to falling into deep depression. But I have decades of experience with depression, I know the warning signs, I’ve set up safeguards. Most of all, I know that periods of depression pass. I know that even extended periods of depression have breaks, moments of relief and even joy. I’ve learned to take advantage of these moments.
This last winter was tough, but winters are often that way for me, especially around the holidays. My usual strategy of being of service to others was limited this year and I had a loss of income leading to financial anxiety.
I don’t want to paint myself as some sort of saint. I’m not. The point is, one of my basic tools to deal with my depression is to act in ways opposite my natural inclinations of selfishness and self-centeredness. I can counteract my cruel tendencies (to others AND myself) with acts of kindness. I can pull myself out of morbid introspection with physical activity. (While I believe introspection is generally good, I also know there’s such a thing as too much of a good thing.)
The pandemic has made my usual depression-countering strategies more difficult, but I’ve tried to adapt and I’m still adapting.
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I understand your feelings on this and it seems like it would only take a small amount of extra effort. But these very large scale studies of countrywide data are designed to answer specific questions about vaccine effectiveness, particularly wrt variants. What we really want is larger scale studies on the topic of Vitamin D and what role it can play in Covid outcomes. That said, there is sufficient evidence that Vitamin D is helpful for general health, and we should already be making wise decisions about its use based on decades of knowledge.
You also have the problem of some folks latching on to any alternative, no matter the harm or risk of harm, and imagining they are themselves safe and not a risk to the people around them. So I’ll continue to take vitamin D3 in 5000 iu gel caplets, which is a safe dose. I’ve received both shots of the Pfizer vaccine, and I’ll take a booster if and when it’s time, and I’ll continue to wear a mask, practice safe social distancing, and limit my time out in public.
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