Government and NHS doctor recommend taking a 2p tablet daily to prevent dementia

An NHS doctor says taking a 2p tablet a day could help prevent cancer and dementia – and the Government is recommending that everyone should consider taking the tablet from now on.

Summer is over and over the next few months you can expect a slow, inexorable deterioration in weather conditions.

Soon you will be walking to and from work in the dark, with the only daylight you get being what comes through the windows of your workplace.

And there is something you need to be aware of, and that is the importance of Vitamin Dwhich our bodies in the UK cannot get enough of after the end of summer.

According to the NHS, from around late March or early April to late September, our bodies are likely to absorb enough vitamin D just from the sunlight we are exposed to.

During the other half of the year, however, the UK's sparse sunshine just doesn't provide us with the good stuff.

They say that everyone “should consider taking a daily supplement containing 10 micrograms of vitamin D during the fall and winter.”

Of course it's your decision, but the NHS says you should think about it and the government says the same.

Several doctors, including the late Dr. Michael Mosley, said that taking vitamin D supplements may also protect against dementia.

He told the Daily Mail earlier this year: “I take 25mcg (1,000IU), which is within the limits of what is considered safe (anything under 100mcg a day for adults and 50mcg for children, according to the NHS), but closer to the dose that studies have shown needs to be taken to ward off infections, cancer and perhaps even dementia.”

Family doctor Dr. Lavan Baskaran agrees and explains: “When I am not on summer vacation, I take 1,000 IU [25 mcg] daily. If I forget, I feel depressed, anxious, tired and have sore joints.”

This is not just a conspiracy by the masterminds of the vitamin industry, as the latest government recommendation is: “Everyone is advised to take a 10 microgram dietary supplement during the autumn and winter.”

The NHS recommends that everyone takes them, and some doctors believe they may also protect against dementia. (Getty Stock Photo)

You can buy supplements in such large quantities that you pay about 2 pence per pill, which seems cost-effective.

If you want to get more vitamin D from your diet, you could try eating more fatty fish, red meat, liver, egg yolks, and various other fortified foods.

Once spring and summer are upon us, you can safely stop taking the supplements, although the NHS still recommends them for people who don't spend much time outdoors or tend to wear clothing that covers their skin when the sun is shining.

In the meantime, with all the vitamin D tablets on the market, you better not do what Jonah Hill did while filming The Wolf of Wall Street.

In the film, vitamin powder was used as artificial cocaine, and Hill said he snorted so much vitamin D that he “could have lifted a car over my damn head,” but it left him suffering from bronchitis for three weeks.