Most of the people who will see this know me and my life / health history ad nauseam but I will be sharing this blog on my Cranky_Vegetarian FB & Insty so for the two of you I don’t know in person it is important to know something about me so this post makes sense.
In 2014 I was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer. The first chemo’s they tried on me took out my already thin from 2011’s bout with cancer, hair. Unfortunately it didn’t do anything for the cancers so we switched meds and I have been on those meds or an offshoot of those meds every three week since then, that’s right, seven years of chemo! So eventually my hair grew back but ever so slowly and it’s very fine. Drugs that mess with your physiology every three weeks for 7 years do not make for fast growing hair.
Also about 18 months (?) ago I was diagnosed with osteopenia. My calcium levels actually look pretty good so they started checking my D levels and they were low normal.
Since then I’ve been experimenting with different forms of D supplementation and I get it checked every 3 months with no discernible difference. EXCEPT!
About three months ago I added a different type of D – a liquid version that I drop in water every morning. And I swear my hair has grown two inches in the last three months. I know this because I get my hair highlighted and suddenly I always have dark roots. My nails are also growing much faster but they’re still super brittle so that’s not terribly helpful there. I am still taking a standard D supplement once a day as well so the liquid is an addition. I’m curious to see my next blood test! I think it’s possible that now I may be absorbing too much D! In which case I’ll start dropping it down a little.
This is the liquid I added:
https://www.purecapspro.com/tracymurray/pe/products/product_details.asp?ProductsID=2304
I went searching and there is a direct connection between D & hair loss.
https://www.eatthis.com/news-major-effect-vitamin-d-hair-loss-study/
I also ran across this which I thought was interesting.
https://www.eatthis.com/news-vitamin-d-bladder-study/
I do keep having to change my Bitmoji to keep it accurate, and the last time I went to my hair person she didn’t recognize me because my hair had grown so much, so fast!
So – get your vitamin D!
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