I read this with interest last night. Vitamin D, is one that has never been mentioned to me. So I did a bit of reading up.
This piece kept cropping up in articles, I'll have to copy and paste, because if I put a link, the post will disappear for ever.
"Getting insufficient vitamin D can weaken your muscles from a condition called myopathy. And if you consistently imbibe too many alcoholic drinks, you may significantly worsen the problem."
“Myopathy simply means ‘muscle disease,'” says Jan W. Wijnia, a researcher at Slingedael Korsakoff Center in the Netherlands. “Muscle weakness is by far the most frequent symptom of alcoholic myopathy, causing difficulties in rising from a chair or in climbing a staircase. In alcoholic myopathy, improvement of muscle weakness usually occurs six to nine months following alcohol abstinence.
I sometimes suffer the highlighted bit, sometimes I feel like an old man. I had put this down to the after effects of having my stroke. It had gone away, but came back and now I think it was down to me drinking again for several months last year, plus we didn't really have much of a summer to get out in.
I'm of the view, that I never use sun lotion in the UK, and only put it on when I'm abroad in very hot countries where my skin is not used to the intensity of the sun.
But the health industry is very much about us covery up and using sun lotion in the UK, whereas when I was a child, we were encouraged to go outside and play, get some sun and fresh air.
When I was at the hospital on Monday, to see about getting a bump removed. Purely to do with my blood not clotting properly and I'd been picking at it. But it was in the same ward that they deal potential sun cancer lumps. And the nurse, who I would say was probably late '50s (I always judge people by their age, as towards what their attitude is going to be like, i.e. what era they grew up in), asked me if I used lotion, to which I said, did we 50 years ago, did we have lots of skin cancer problems then?
She said, I don't know, probably. I was surprised at her reaction, my view has always been get out there in spring and start building up protection for the summer. I'm a Welsh Celt, and they originally came from the Southern Mediterranean, so if there is enough sun, I can go as brown as an Asian.
Funny how people can't see it, we wrap up away from the sun, use lotion to protect us and then wonder why our vitamin D levels are very low and we're suffering from diseases that were stamped out 100 years ago.