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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Has anyone taking a vitamin D supplement becuase their doc told them they tested low for vit D ever actual tested no longer deficient?

Given that supplements have no regulation, I often wonder at doctors recommending them.  Sure, it might make sense if the supplement actually contains what it claims to contain, but a doctor wouldn't know.  It just seems like bad practice on the part of doctors.[/quote]

The issue you identify is not with a doctor's medical advice, but with lack of regulation of a product.

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But a doctor recommending an unregulated product with potentially no chance of efficacy is also an issue.[/quote]

If a doctor recommends a supplement with studies backing up the efficacy of that supplement, particularly with no known major side effects, there is nothing wrong with encouraging a person to take that thing.  The doctor is not responsible for ensuring that the patient actually obtains and ingests that supplement.

A doctor can tell you to increase your fiver intake without knowing for sure you will actually ingest more fiber.
A doctor can tell you to walk more without knowing for sure if you will do that or if you will do so in a safe environment.

Similarly a doctor can tell you to ingest more magnesium and that supplements are a good way to do that  without knowing for sure that you will actually take a quality supplement.[/quote]

you are missing that the doctor doesn't know if ANY supplement actually contains the ingredient.  It's akin to recomending snake-oil.

It would be different if the doctor recommended a product that they KNOW has the relevant ingredient, but I don't know if a doctor could know that about any product.[/quote]

Vitamin D supplements are all the same. What sort of tin foil hat do you wear? I check my levels an additional time after my annual physical since my levels tend to be low without additional sun exposure and supplementation. Maybe the tests are also a conspiracy. [/quote]

How do you know they are all the same?  This is a serious question.  No supplement is regulated for content.  Everyone knows this; it is not some secret conspiracy.

I didn't suggest the tests were a conspiracy.  [/quote]

NP. They are not regulated like drugs but a number of supplement companies do submit to third-party testing, and label their products as such. I stick to the brands that do this. Yes, it is theoretically possible they are giving me canola oil instead of of omega 3 but it is the same as for any trusted brand that they're not going to do that because it would catch up with them.[/quote]

Yes, it most certainly would. The industry is incredibly low margin for the supplements doctors actually recommend, which is the narrower thing we are addressing. These companies monitor themselves through false labeling litigation.

Meanwhile vitamin Sherlock has it all figured out. The doctors won’t tell her to spend $30 a year on vitamin D and expensive urine. Suckers [/quote]

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