Posted by supermatou 4 hours ago
Maybe it's the high dose vitamin, maybe it's because one cohort was skewed one way on the socioeconomic spectrum, maybe it's something else entirely. More evidence would be needed imo to confirm Vitamin D3 has a direct contributor to cognitive performance as the research portrayed.
The main trick behind randomized control trials is that you can disregard factors like this because these effects would be randomly distributed as well.
If a study is going to draw debatable conclusion after 10 years on high dose Vitamin D during pregnancy, I'd expect at least some comment in the study on the general socio economic landscape and grouping.
Regardless, this study looks like a sham to me.
> in the UK where it's usually gloom & drowsy
Luckily this is only September through to July :) ... :(
Anyone has any leads on this? Why is this happening? Doctors deny it and my levels are low.
it is -exactly- like Linus Pauling and Vitamin C cult in the previous century
Vitamin D is very important
Too Much is as bad as Too Little
The "RDA" is too low at 600IU and should have been changed to 2000IU decades ago
It can help prevent certain diseases and illnesses
It CANNOT cure any known disease or illness once afllicted
It makes you wonder how much of what we accept as "normal" afternoon brain fog or tech burnout is actually just our biology reacting to this massive behavioral shift and lack of natural light.
It's one huge perk of working from home. Lying down for 20 minutes makes the rest of the day much more pleasant and productive.
Check the CO2 levels in your office. They can get ridiculously high indoors when humans gather in the same room. It's not dangerous, but it makes people tired, they stop taking initiative, and less creative.
The natural rest position of the human eye is to focus at the infinite. Focusing on closer objects like books or screens requires a constant effort (we don't feel it).
The eye simply adapts and elongate to relieve some of the strain. Wearing corrective lenses further amplify the process.
If you want your kids to have perfect vision they should spend a lot of time playing outside, until early adulthood.
Clearly there's some significant environmental factor, and constantly focusing at short distances and/or getting no bright light exposure are the two obvious candidates (in other words, being inside all the time)
Whatever we're doing that isn't what they're doing is not normal.
Yes, they can. But whatever they are doing to their body, they are doing to their baby as well.
Can they drink and smoke while they are pregnant? Sure, it is their choice.
Should they? Perhaps not, if they care about the welfare of the little human that is growing inside of them.
I am really sad that even HN is the target of this type of bullshit.