Been searching online but it gives me plenty of options, it seems.

Is it true that a low vitamin-D deficiency can make you feel a bit down in the weather, so to speak?

  • YearOfTheCommieDesktop [they/them]
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    9 months ago

    I live at a fairly northern latitude and get depressed (any season but winter is often worse), and I wouldn't say I swear by vitamin d supplements but I have been taking them the last like 5 winters and feel like they do help. could be placebo but I'll take it

      • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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        9 months ago

        anecdotally my doctor recently recommended I take a shitload of vitamin D because I'm a troglodyte, and I do think I feel a little better lately

        this was while it was still summer too, and I have whatever the opposite of SAD is so it wasn't just the onset of fall making me feel better

      • YearOfTheCommieDesktop [they/them]
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        9 months ago

        I believe the link between vitamin d levels and seasonal affective disorder is confirmed, but afaik doctors usually prescribe light therapy with a sun lamp to stimulate bodily vit. D production, not supplements. I've seen studies saying supplements seem to work, and studies where they had no effect, so its inconclusive but worth a shot.