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[elliew8]

Hey I just wanted to see if anyone else has had any long term success from this? I haven't been tested for Vitamin D levels but logic is telling me it's low since my acne pretty much clears when I'm on holiday (although as someone's mentioned it might be the UV rays helping) and the weather has been pretty poor in the UK so I haven't had much sun...since I haven't been tested I'm going to go for 1000IU every other day and see if there's any difference. It's brilliant that it's helped some people but I'm not getting my hopes up - on the plus side Holland and Barrett are doing D3 in the penny sale at the minute for anyone else in the UK!

[whoartthou1]

How long would one have to stay in the sun to get an adequate amount of vitamin d, if that person is light brown skin?

[BSider]

I received my vitamin D results yesterday and my serum level came back at 35 ng/mL...

 

I'm going to start supplementing with vitamin D 10000 IU/day and getting 20 min of sun on my chest/back on the weekends.  I'll be monitoring my acne/sebum levels and get retested in 4-6 weeks to check if I hit my target serum level of 50 ng/mL.

 

After 4 weeks of supplementing with vitamin D 10000 IU/day and getting about 90 minutes of sun on my body on the weekends, my serum level is now 61 ng/mL.  There hasn't been any change to my sebum levels or my acne severity, though maybe it'll take some more time to see results.

 

I do feel like I have more energy as of late, though it's tough to say if Vitamin D is responsible.

[Ichance23]

Thanks for reminding me to go take my vitamin D

How long would one have to stay in the sun to get an adequate amount of vitamin d, if that person is light brown skin?

I stayed in the sun for 30 minutes every day all last summer and I have light white skin and my serum went from 10 to 23 which is still deficient and I live in a very sunny area. In my opinion the only way to maintain proper vitamin D levels in today's world due to our style of livin is to take at least 5000 iu vitamin d a day and probably more if you want the optimum levels which effects your immune system, acne, and testosterone levels, etc mood.

[Chocobot]

Well geez I have a bottle of vitamin-D3 and it's only 400ui:p I didn't take them because I take Centrum multi-vitamins, but it seems I could add it too. That would be 1200ui, which is little but I can start with that.

 

We've had nothing but rain for over a week, and more rain to come. No sunlight for me:(