SERIOUSLY? DUMB ****ING ****ERS ARE NOW REFUSING THE MOTHER****ING VITAMIN K SHOT?

[My Wife Hates CIV]

I lit a fart on fire one time... it works. make sure you have underwear on.

[Guynemer]

Technically, there is quite a lot of evidence of a few specific vitamins in certain conditions. (Vitamin D for breastfeeding infants, iron for same,

Since I assume TMM is not a breastfeeding infant, I figured that was not relevant.

[Sava]

Since I assume TMM is not a breastfeeding infant, I figured that was not relevant.

You assume much

[The Mad Monk]

I must admit, I do enjoy my whole fat vitamin D milk.

[Sava]

[Guynemer]

Human milk does not contain significant quantities of Vitamin D, hence why Vitamin D supplementation is beneficial to breast-fed infants.

[The Mad Monk]

Has it always been that way, or only since we started wearing clothes and sunblock?

[Sava]

There is little evidence that an adult eating a normal, varied diet gets any benefit from vitamins or nutritional supplements.

This.

As for CoQ10

http://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/coenzyme-q10/evidence/hrb-20059019

They also have grades for how much a particular claim is scientific. If you want to examine other supplements as well as drugs, be sure to click on "evidence".

[snoopy369]

I think the answer is 'umm... ' mostly. Obviously people survived for thousands, nay millions of years without vitamin D supplements, and undoubtedly some of those years were spent without much in the way of clothing. However, people also had ~50% or higher infant mortality rates, and drastically stunted growth compared to the modern era (even the last century). I think it's hard to guess whether vitamin D supplements would've been helpful to cavebabies, but I suspect the answer is yes; they probably didn't spend too much time out of doors in the bright sun, as babies get sunburns easily.

[Sava]

More Coq10 info: I don't know the site, but it appears to have nearly 50 sources.

http://www.jissn.com/content/5/1/8

[The Mad Monk]

I'm not asking about prehistory, I'm asking about the here and now. Is the vitamin D content of milk "naturally" set to a low level, or are there environmental effects?

edit: thank you for rewriting the "stupid question" bit.

[Sava]

I'm not asking about prehistory, I'm asking about the here and now. Is the vitamin D content of milk "naturally" set to a low level, or are there environmental effects?

Very few foods naturally contain vitamin D. Fatty fish, like swordfish, salmon and tuna provide 556, 447 and 154 international units, respectively, in a 3-ounce serving. Egg yolk contains vitamin D, and eating one egg provides 41 international units. Because the liver stores vitamin D, eating 3 ounces of beef liver provides 42 international units. Milk fat, found in whole milk but absent from skim milk, naturally contains trace amounts of vitamin D depending on the producing animal’s food intake and sun exposure.

The United States began adding nutrients to foods, a process known as fortification, to remedy nutrient deficiencies in the population. In 1933, prominent groups including the Council on Foods and Nutrition, the American Medical Association and the Committee on Food and Nutrition of the National Academy of Sciences, recommended adding vitamin D to milk to decrease the incidence of rickets, a deficiency disease that causes bone deformities. Milk producers fortify milk by adding an oily mixture of vitamins A and D to liquid milk prior to homogenizing, which means mixing, and pasteurizing, a process of heating to destroy harmful bacteria.

http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/milk-really-contain-vitamin-d-5415.html

[The Mad Monk]

Thank you.

[The Mad Monk]

BTW, it shouldn't be forgotten that vitamins A&D are fat soluble; it's why I changed back from skim to whole.

[Sava]

np

I was reading today there's an omega 3 study in the works, but it doesn't come out until 2018.

I'm curious to read the results.