Shocking Update — Sunshine Can Actually Decrease Your Vitamin D Levels (www.Mercola.com)

Oh my god, avoid taking showers!! American will never smell the same.

@jtlbb2
I just wish he’d cite evidence that shows the need for his advice, and shows that his advice might work. Leaves less up to speculation/paranoia. You can make videos to reach your audience, but it’d be improved by just inserting some links to the logic behind it. He doesn’t half drone on though does he?

@Teghead: So anyone who disagrees with the mainstream is a quack? The “style” of him using videos is just him using a modern media to reach a larger population than he would if he wrote this information in medical journals. If the only place you could find his information is through medical journals, how many people do you think he’d reach? Not many at all.

Its not the sun that Deacrease your vitamin D. Its the showering. But a good sentence to draw attention to your looooooong movie about 1 simple thing.

Apologies, make that hypervitaminosis A, not D. The point was that Eskimos living on a diet of fish, seal, bear, whale do not die from hypovitaminosis D, obviously.

However hypervitaminosis D is a risk, calcification can occur in various places: kidney nephrons, arterioles, you can fall quite ill. Googling vitamin D gets you a lot further than Mercola’s videos.

Oh, Mercola said it, as if it were fact. So it therefore must be fact. Even if he means well, he may not be representing the evidence accurately, it may not support his strong assertions. Please reserve your judgement til you see some evidence (waiting on that), especially if you’re considering forking out any cash.

I agree that Mercola is a very subtly disguised quack with vested interests and whose style of advice (video-campaigning) is questionable.

However the style of whistle-blowing you’re employing is a bit like flailing your arms wildly.
No need to try and scaremonger on the basis that vitamin D is a pro-steroid, meaning it is the precursor of a signalling molecule comprised of cholestrol/lipids. Sure “steroid” will scare people but it’s not constructive. There’s little literature on vit D…

“Oxidative stress” is not well supported by any evidence, and I doubt that it is the mechanism by which exposure to certain wavelengths increases the incidence of cancer.

Can you start citing papers in your videos, as it would encourage your audience to interpret risks and validity of treatments for themselves, instead of getting it second-hand from you.
Even if you mean well you are vulnerable to human-error, so this approch may be beneficial.

I think Dr. Mercola is quite brave to bring this information forward. Nothing will get you crazy looks like suggesting that the compulsive daily shower obsession should be questioned (except maybe suggesting the compulsive employment obsession should be as well). Whoops, a lot of you have already judged me nuts based on that sentence – but the facts are nonetheless the facts. If showering with soap destroys vitamin D on the skin, then it may be detrimental to your health. Happy scrubbing.

Thank you for all this very interesting information on Vitamin D.
Love and Peaches XX.

u probably don’t have a spouse either u dirty bastard

1. I’m not brainwashed (or a twat). You just demonstrated your inteligence.
2. I do do my research :)

Did you not pay attention? rofl