Been searching online but it gives me plenty of options, it seems.
Is it true that a low vitamin-D deficiency can make you feel a bit down in the weather, so to speak?
Been searching online but it gives me plenty of options, it seems.
Is it true that a low vitamin-D deficiency can make you feel a bit down in the weather, so to speak?
I live at a fairly northern latitude and get depressed (any season but winter is often worse), and I wouldn’t say I swear by vitamin d supplements but I have been taking them the last like 5 winters and feel like they do help. could be placebo but I’ll take it
Yeah, same!
I’m wondering if it’s just placebo or not.
anecdotally my doctor recently recommended I take a shitload of vitamin D because I’m a troglodyte, and I do think I feel a little better lately
this was while it was still summer too, and I have whatever the opposite of SAD is so it wasn’t just the onset of fall making me feel better
Yeah, I getcha. I have SAD or something like it.
I believe the link between vitamin d levels and seasonal affective disorder is confirmed, but afaik doctors usually prescribe light therapy with a sun lamp to stimulate bodily vit. D production, not supplements. I’ve seen studies saying supplements seem to work, and studies where they had no effect, so its inconclusive but worth a shot.
A sun lamp? Never heard of those.
They’re pretty pricy
OOF.
I hate pricy.
I might get one anyway.