merlinsbeers

merlinsbeers t1_ixthwfq wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in For most Americans, housing was a key component in personal wealth accumulation. However, racist housing policies eroded black wealth in pre-WWII American cities. Black families paid a 28% premium to buy a home on a majority white block, after which their homes lost 10% of their value. by smurfyjenkins

>Do HOAs determine who can buy a house?

In some states they're still called "covenant controlled communities" which is a euphemism for everyone having sales contracts that they agreed to when buying that obligate then never to sell to nonwhites. Developers put them in place to keep prices up when selling lots and new homes.

Those restrictions are unenforceable now, but the language is still there on some people's deeds. And the neighborhoods haven't changed much and sometimes aren't exactly friendly to diversity.

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merlinsbeers t1_ixth2z3 wrote

Reply to comment by Moont1de in For most Americans, housing was a key component in personal wealth accumulation. However, racist housing policies eroded black wealth in pre-WWII American cities. Black families paid a 28% premium to buy a home on a majority white block, after which their homes lost 10% of their value. by smurfyjenkins

It means believing that a certain race is inferior, and politically it means keeping people off that race from having any power or getting any benefit from government. Using the government to oppress them has always been systemic racism.

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merlinsbeers t1_iu0or67 wrote

Reply to comment by DrDumDums in Vitamin D deficiency linked to premature death. Over a 14-year follow up period, researchers found that the risk for death significantly decreased with increased vitamin D concentrations, with the strongest effects seen among those with severe deficiencies. by Wagamaga

My time isn't free nor is my email address. They may have asked the wrong questions.

Feel free to use your access to the article to excerpt quotes from it that contradict what I've said.

In particular, they need to say that vitamin D absorption and creation do not decline with age, and that daily doses in the 2000 to 5000-IU range are too high to fix that.

If they don't say that, then my opinion does not conflict with their study, or you didn't understand the study.

And even if they do say that it doesn't mean that they're right and I'm wrong. My opinion conflicts with a lot of "physician researchers" on a lot of topics. Quacks publish, too.

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merlinsbeers t1_iu02ddo wrote

Reply to comment by DrDumDums in Vitamin D deficiency linked to premature death. Over a 14-year follow up period, researchers found that the risk for death significantly decreased with increased vitamin D concentrations, with the strongest effects seen among those with severe deficiencies. by Wagamaga

Not sure of why. It just stops being absorbed in the gut as much, and sunshine becomes less effective at producing it even with high exposure.

Doc gave me 10000-unit pills to take weekly for a few weeks then told me to keep taking 2-5000 units a day forever.

D is involved in the chickpea that produce energy, and if I miss several days I can feel it. When I'm on target the fog and malaise go away and I feel like a normal person.

Everyone past their early 40s should get their vitamin panel checked, especially if they feel like they're run-down for no good reason.

I'm not scaling the paywall to verify the article, but if it doesn't talk about the decline with age or it says these dosages are not the medicine for it, then it didn't do its homework.

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merlinsbeers t1_ityapqp wrote

Reply to comment by DrDumDums in Vitamin D deficiency linked to premature death. Over a 14-year follow up period, researchers found that the risk for death significantly decreased with increased vitamin D concentrations, with the strongest effects seen among those with severe deficiencies. by Wagamaga

This is not something you can self diagnose.

The ability to absorb vitamin D from the sun and from food declines with age. Most people will need to take large amounts in supplements every day.

Next time you're at the doctor ask to have a vitamin panel done.

Being nutritionally deficient is a dumb way to live.

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