I've stopped using photos entirely due to import bugs.

So much wasted time, now I just use image capture to import and organize directly.

Still get errors from time to time.

Apple needs to hire more quality control, their software integration is going from a positive to a negative.

Seamless integration was a large part of Apple's initial hook, and continues to be a part of their drive to push services, it should be a priority.

Curious.

Could you please share your physical activity level around the time of supplementation?

One of the most interesting studies I found in my research of vitamin D was a study in an elder care center where the patients were given massive doses of vitamin D.

The result of the massive doses were that patience had less hip fractures, but more falls compared to the control.

Now take this next part with a grain of salt because it’s me extrapolating from this result, but due to the known effects of vitamin D on muscle strength and also on bone density, I imagine that these patients were more active, but because vitamin D doesn’t give you coordination as well as strength they were falling more, their bones were more dense so they had less fractures per fall.

The point I’m trying to make and the reason I am curious about your own activity level, is that perhaps that there is a sensation or feeling of your muscles being more primed for action which can be agitating. Perhaps regular activity can link one’s sense of proprioception with increased muscular ability.

Apologies in advance if this is too personal of a pry.

I run 3-5 times a week but otherwise pretty sedentary.

Thank you for replying!

Other than the value you are aiming for (I personally aim for the upper edge of the normal range), I agree with the immense variability in dosage, and also would like to mention imprecision in vitamin D bloodwork tests as well.

Thankfully throughout my Vitamin D research, I found low risk of overdose, and cases of immense accidental overdose that appear to have been treated successfully (mainly by stopping the over-intake).

Adding on this point, in my research I found blood serum testing to be wildly imprecise.

The conclusion of my study was that we should do more studies where we take regular blood level samples and adjust dosage to achieve a certain average level (near the upper level of the range).

5000IU D3 (D2 is about 1/3-1/2 as effective at raising blood serum levels) is a good starting point.

Did a masters on Vit D.

Multiple overdoses of over 1 million IU have been recovered from without obvious long-term damage present in near term follow up.

Out of vitamin D’s many potentially clinically positive effects some of the clearest and best evidence is for increased muscle strength.

Personally I take between 5000-10000 IU D3 daily depending on exposure to sun intensity.

Care to share your thesis? Sounds interesting! What was your degreee in?

The hypothesis was: is it beneficial to supplement vitamin D to reach the maximum levels achieved through sun exposure year-round?

Conclusion: these types of studies did not exist at the time, but the risks of doing such studies would be minimal, and such studies would be able to test for the effects of higher dose supplementation that were lacking at the time. Potential benefits include increased muscular strength and bone strength.

testing lying down as we speak. Much more comfortable. The killer market for this device is business airline travel.

I'll admit that air travel is the opportunity to read books and watch films that I don't do enough of at home.

15 minutes of full-body UV exposure from the sun is estimated to provide the equivalent of 20-30,000 IU Vitamin D3.

There is a definite need for studies that better determine the effective dose for D3.

My research led me to the conclusion that studies should be done based not on standardized supplementation, but instead supplementation to a standardized blood serum level.

Makes sense that we have been cooking for a long time.

Our intestines look as though they have evolved around an environment of cooked food, and that takes many many thousands of years

“Taking advantage of forrest fires” is not a long-term strategy for survival unless you also evolve a penchant for arson, and then you’d run out of forests pretty quickly once your local population rises even slightly.

The article also indicates the fish were cooked at a controlled temperature

I would estimate they were doing just fine even if they had yet to perfect digital temperature control.

Distributed ledgers are not a scam, and our true best hope for anti-corruption.

I would like every elected official to have all their income and spending listed on a public ledger.

True accountability of representatives to those they purport to represent will solve so many problems, both in terms of the types of people incentivized to become public servants, and also in terms of public understanding of spending and waste.

All this "crypto" is intellectual warm-up for what is to come, I'd highly suggest looking at rollups (what I would describe as ledgers within ledgers) which are delving into the true possibilities of next-to-zero cost of immutable transaction records.

>Distributed ledgers are not a scam, and our true best hope for anti-corruption.

They are not a scam, but they are almost completely useless

>I would like every elected official to have all their income and spending listed on a public ledger.

A public ledger is not necessarily a decentralised ledger. This could be accomplished by any bank account controlled by a US politician to send the payments made to a US goverment controlled webapp that's then publicly accessible (by FOI request, if necessary). No blockchain, no decentralised woo needed. What you have stated is a POLTICIAL problem, and those require POLITICAL solutions. No new or speculative technology, of any sort, is needed to accomplish the problem statement.

Chiming in to thank you. The access to quality information on the web, specifically Ebooks, is what gives me hope for the future.