When do you check vitamin D levels in patients with depressive symptoms?

I routinely check 25-OH D in all my patients. Given that half the population is deficient and that we now know the role of vitamin D not only for bones but in mood, cognition, and immunity. We need to be aware of deficiencies and replete if low. Moreover, ideal levels are 60-80, not just over 29 as ...

This was a helpful discussion to validate the need to support the interface between nutritional health and mental health.

Living in the Pacific Northwest, in the fall, I start recommending that everyone start taking vitamin D 2000 IU daily. I don't necessarily check a level because most of us living here will have low vitamin D by mid-winter if we are not supplementing, and the lab can be a bit expensive. However, if t...

There is the issue of monoamine synthesis, which would be very difficult without it. Please routinely measure vitamin D. If less than 40, go for it.

When you try to prescribe vitamin D, many options come up (e.g., cholecalciferol, etc.). Do we just order simple vitamin D? Thank you!

When I worked in the VA system, it was routinely ordered for everyone, including a RPR, Lipid panel, CBC, CMP, and TSH. Anecdotally, a lot of patients incidentally had low vitamin D. In my experience, in other hospital systems, it is ordered more intentionally and case by case. It seems in certain g...

Any thoughts about how light therapy affects Vitamin D levels that we are discussing?