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3 Surprising Facts about Vitamin D
This little change could really improve your life
On my way to a graduate seminar on post-medieval Japanese art my right arm started hurting. It ached all the way into the bone and as I thought back on my last Judo session wondering if maybe I had some weird injury I hadn’t noticed prior my breath started shortening. The pain in my right arm was expanding into my back and chest making every step towards the bell tower of my university and class increasingly painful. The morning fog enveloped me and despite the sun promising a warm day ahead I felt as if I was being stabbed by ice. I resolved that immediately after class I would go to the health centre for care.
I genuinely believed I was having a heart attack.
My memory, like that morning, is a bit foggy, but I do remember waking up in the care centre and being told by a doctor that I had made it there under my own power, but had passed out. My mother was, fortunately, still working nearby at this point in our lives and so she drove out to pick me up. I wasn’t in a condition to speak to the doctor myself, but he had tested me on the suspicion that I was simply dangerously deficient in vitamin D and discovered I indeed was. He prescribed a very high dosage of the “vitamin,” for about a month and then advised that I continue to take over the counter…
