An 89-year-old retired businessman died from an “overdose” of Vitamin D supplements that did not warn about the risks of excessive intake.

David Mitchener from Oxted, Surrey, reportedly had fatally high levels of Vitamin D when he was brought to the East Surrey Hospital last year in May and was suffering from hypercalcaemia – a build-up of calcium in the body associated with taking too much vitamin D.

He died ten days later.

  • TrudeauCastroson [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    Do you live in a place with winter?

    Non-white people are a lot worse at synthesizing vitamin D into their body through sunlight. To get enough vitamin D you need 30 minutes outside if white, 2 hours if black.

    Winter depression is a thing because you go to work when it’s dark, you leave work it’s already sunset if you have an office job.

    idk if those times even work in the winter when you don’t even expose your entire face because it cold.