Posted by RollingThunder on December 15, 2009 at 03:26:26:In Reply to: Viagra may worsen OSA! posted by D.H. on December 06, 2009 at 06:42:54:
Hello,
You need to know the science...
Most people who suffer obstructive sleep apnea are overweight (obese by scientific standards). Fat is a perfect sink hole for vitamin D. Serum vitamin D levels drive serotonin levels, serotonin levels drive the sex drive.
So if you are overweight in all likelihood you have a lower sex drive than normal (low serum vitamin D leads to low serotonin, leads to low sex drive). They can make money selling you Viagra, but sunlight on your skin is free and they make no money.
Since vitamin D does not reach the blood stream well in the overweight, and is stored in the fat reserves overweight people suffer vitamin D deficiency, and vitamin D deficiency brings on a host of problems, and one of those is changes in appetite that lead to obesity. Obeisity leads to obstructive sleep apnea. See the natural downward spiral?
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Decreased bioavailability of vitamin D in obesity -- Wortsman et ... by J Wortsman - 2000 - Cited by 372 - Related articles - All 12 versions
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Vitamin D deficiency is now being tied to a host of autoimmune disorders such as cancer, diabetes, arthritis, multiple schlerosis, Crohn's, obesity, and others. You simply need to add low sex drive to the list.
Obstructive sleep apnea would appear to be a side effect of obesity brought on by vitamin D deficiency.
With the North American sun photophobia induced by skin doctors, people have forgotten that humans evolved NAKED under the sun for 5 million years and the body makes strong use of the vitamin D the skin produces (thousands and thousands of units of vitamin D daily). There are healthy and necessary levels of solar exposure. We evolved that way, we simply outsmarted ourselves.
See these resources to learn more about vitamin D deficiency;
Vitamin D Council
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/Grassroots Health - Universtiy of California San Diego
http://www.grassrootshealth.net/I hope people take the time to find the bread crumb trail that leads to the paved road.
Rolling Thunder