Today's post is titled "Dude, you got a disease." for multiple reasons. Part of it has to do with the fact that I currently really want to watch School Of Rock for what would probably be something around the thirtieth time I've seen the movie. However, that is more of a thought than the actual reason.
Now in order to understand what I'm going to say next I'm going to have to let you in on a few more of my scattered thoughts. I am flat out a very moody person. I have tendencies to change my mind in a moment, be crabby one minute and little miss sunshine the next, and even at times I am guilty of committing acts of violence towards my own friends. Due to these actions and a few more thoughts that at this time I am not comfortable with the general public knowing, my mother decided that a psych "evaluation" might be a good idea. This was a little over a month ago now. At that point the psych decided that it would probably be a good idea for me to go on a mood stabilizer, which I am currently taking, and to get a Vitamin D test.
After getting the Vitamin D test taken a little over a week ago, my mother received a call from the psych again. As it turns out, I am so Vitamin D deficient that it's actually a disease. Starting at some point soon I will be taking 100,000 mg of Vitamin D a week, the supplements to bring me back up to a more realistic level, ease muscle and bone pain, and actually even out my mood as well . So yes, dude, I got a disease, that's all caused by not being out in the sun enough.
This has also gotten my mother and I thinking. How much of our current population is Vitamin D deficient? The majority of people are spending much more of their lives inside than they had even as little as 10 years ago. When I was in elementary school I was probably outside for at least an hour daily during the school year and during the summer at least five probably. Now, ten years later, you'd probably be lucky to catch me outside for the majority of the school year unless I'm in the middle of a commute and during the summer the hours are much less frequent and shorter as well than in previous years.
So what do you think Cyberspace? How Vitamin D low do you think our general population is? Why?
1 comment:
I'd imagine that the number are staggering. Many suffer from Seasonal Affective disorder, which means a lack of sunlight contributes to a depressive state. In MN, this is most common in the winter months. I'm glad you'll be getting the Vitamin your body needs:)
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