This last contribution is relevant to OP, so I'm posting it. Pissing match = completed.Ok I'm done with this shit. A poster asks for an opinion and now we have a pissing match ! Take it to your own thread . Hell start a " pissing match " thread .
Edit: Here's some sources
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/about-vitamin-d/what-is-vitamin-d/#
Vitamin D, Third Edition by Feldman D, Pike JW, Adams JS. Elsevier Academic Press, 2011
"Vitamin D is very important for strong bones. Calcium and phosphorus are essential for developing the structure and strength of your bones, and you need vitamin D to absorb these minerals. Even if you eat foods that contain a lot of calcium and phosphorus, without enough vitamin D, you can’t absorb them into your body. Vitamin D is important for general good health, and researchers now are discovering that vitamin D may be important for many other reasons outside of good bone health. Some of the functions of the body that vitamin D helps with include:
Immune system, which helps you to fight infection
Muscle function
Cardiovascular function, for a healthy heart and circulation
Respiratory system –for healthy lungs and airways
Brain development
Anti-cancer effects
Doctors are still working to fully understand how vitamin D works within your body and how it affects your overall health."
DOSAGES
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/about-vitamin-d/how-do-i-get-the-vitamin-d-my-body-needs/
Varying from 5-10,000 UI p/day (lots of linked studies in the lower part of the page)
THIS is a BLOG, is NOT evidence based and certainly does not support you claim of Vitamin D supplementation
Heck there is only ONE reference cited at the end of this blog, supported by YOUR contributions.
PROBIOTICS
http://www.todaysdietitian.com/newarchives/011211p20.shtml
"Probiotics’ Potential — Research Suggests Beneficial Bacteria May Support Immune Health
By Sharon Palmer, R"
"One key player in immune health is the gut, a part of the body that is constantly exposed to toxins and foreign antigens, such as those from food and microbes. According to nutrition and immune expert Simin Meydani, DVM, PhD, director of the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging and the Nutritional Immunology Laboratory at Tufts University, who spoke at a December 4, 2009, Tufts seminar, “The gut is the largest immune organ in the body, accounting for 25% of the immune cells in the body that provide 50% of the body’s immune response. There are more than 400 species of bacteria residing in the gut, and they have symbiotic relationships with your body.” Meydani called the gut flora “the forgotten body organ” because of its vital yet underappreciated health functions."
Yea so what else is new? Probiotics while potentially helpful in the restoration of "normal" GI flora in those patients with acute GI disorders are no panacea and to tell someone with one liner vague complaints, as the OP, they have "F .......LOW" immunity amendable to Vitamin D and Probiotic therapy is BS K.
http://www.prevention.com/health/health-concerns/more-proof-probiotics-boost-immunity
"The latest research published in the Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport found that New Zealand athletes had about 40% fewer colds and gastrointestinal infections when they took a probiotic compared to when they took a placebo."
http://www.kibowbiotech.com/probiotics-and-immune-health.html
Probiotics and Immune Health
"In 1994, the World Health Organization deemed probiotics to be the next-most important immune defense system when commonly prescribed antibiotics are rendered useless by antibiotic resistance. The gastrointestinal tract, the body's primary immune organ with 70-80% of the body's immune cells are located in the gastrointestinal tract. The immune system ensures an appropriate response to non-harmful components such as food and harmful components such as certain viruses."
(Hmm thats clearly an extrapolated WHO quote, at best, since the Liver, Spleen, Lungs and bone marrow are considered the primary components of the hemopoietic system. The GI tract however is particularly important during years 1-4 when new food antigen exposure is occurring)
If you would actually read any of these studies K, perhaps then you would understand how poorly controlled they were. For instance a 40% reduction in colds were observed, oh really? Hmm how was a "cold determined" did they perform (the diagnostic gold standard) antigen/antibody panels on ANY of those viruses known to be associated with the common cold? Nope! What did they do to prove benefit? Passed out subjective questioners to participants and checked T-lymphocyte counts. The latter can be effected by innumerable antigens.
Conclusion: HARDLY a bullshit claim, in my opinion, to advice someone to supplement vit. D and probiotics!
We get way too little healthy bacteria through our ruined processed food, and it's ruining our guts.
Our guts are being ruined? Evidence, not, but an effective means for alarmists to sound their alarm.
This last contribution is relevant to OP, so I'm posting it. Pissing match = completed.
Ok I'm done with this shit. A poster asks for an opinion and now we have a pissing match ! Take it to your own thread . Hell start a " pissing match " thread .
Thanks everyone. Didn't mean to start ww3 over it tho ;-)
Well, it started as a head cold. Then I got a cough. Then I thought I was recovering, for like 2 days things looked up, then I started training again, things went major down hill so I didn't train after that... So yesterday pretty much just after posting this, my partner made me go to the doctor. Turns out I have simultaneously acquired a sinus and chest infection. So now I'm on antibiotics.
I will do some research into boosting my immune system for future me tho. I hate being sick and it seems to be getting more and more often now so something is definitely up with that.
Thanks everyone. Didn't mean to start ww3 over it tho ;-)
Well, it started as a head cold. Then I got a cough. Then I thought I was recovering, for like 2 days things looked up, then I started training again, things went major down hill so I didn't train after that... So yesterday pretty much just after posting this, my partner made me go to the doctor. Turns out I have simultaneously acquired a sinus and chest infection. So now I'm on antibiotics.
I will do some research into boosting my immune system for future me tho. I hate being sick and it seems to be getting more and more often now so something is definitely up with that.
So its mainly a chest infection? not a throat or lung infection...
I had a bad lung infection a few years ago that started as a throat infection.. I ended up in bed for three weeks and felt very bad having trouble breathing and also coughing and choking...
My GP Prescribed me a few different anitbiotics over a period of a few week, but they seemed to have no to minimal positive effect.
After the antibiotic failures (antibiotics don't work on viruses} he decided to prescribe me Prednisone, which had an instant and dramatic effect on the inflamation and my ability to breath ...
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