Vitamins B & D

Our bodies need specific vitamins, minerals, amino acids, etc...to function optimally. 

Most of us don't eat a health diet regularly let alone daily so supplementing with OTC (over the counter) products becomes a "better than nothing" option. 

Even if you do try to eat the daily recommended amounts of fruits and vegetables as well as keep your sodium and sugars low, our food supply is so contaminated today with pestocides and antibiotics, all in the name of profit by reprehensible food producers, that you are still not eating as healthy as you wish/think. 

Vitamin B

Instead of recreating the wheel, please click this "B" Energetic Spinal Trap page to learn about the benefits of taking a Vitamin B Complex daily.

https://www.spinaltrapb2g.com/self-help_healing_modalities/b_energetic

Vitamin D

When you are active and get outdoors regularly, Vitamin D deficiency isn't an issue for you since spending time in the sun is Vitamin D's best and most natural source.

Conversely, when you live disabled by injury and chronic pain, it is common to not leave your house for days, even weeks, on end, or even to go outside.

According to Mayo Clinic:

[Vitamin D is found in many foods, including fish, eggs, fortified milk, and cod liver oil. The sun also adds to the body's daily production of vitamin D, and as little as 10 minutes of exposure is thought to prevent deficiency.]

I rarely eat fish and when I do, it must be beer battered and covered in ketchup...so guessing I'm not Vitamin D loading so much as very tasty fat loading...I rarely drink milk and I don't do cod liver oil.

In 2010, a dr. ran my blood labs and told me I was Vitamin D deficient. 

I was working F/T+ and was very surprised by this.  Once I thought about it though, I realized that when you get in and out of your car from a garage that lets you straight into the house, you are not getting any sunlight there or when unloading groceries.  

When you get to the office, if you have a door or window, it lets light in, but that isn't the same as being in it. 

When in moderate to severe pain, you will ride around for 5 minutes waiting for that first or closest parking spot to open up, so that's minimizing Vitamin D sun exposure. 

The doc had me start a Vitamin D3 (2,000 IU) supplement to get back into the normal range.  

If you live a sedentary/restricted life due to injury and chronic pain, make sure that you ask your dr. to run an annual blood panel that includes this information so if you need to supplement, he/she can advise you accordingly.

Vitamin D plays a big role in bone health; which, when you have extensive spinal (or other) damage is critically important to keeping additional pain and suffering at bay.  Vitamin D is thought to play a role in other vital areas of health too.  For more about Vitamin D's relationship to your best health, here's Mayo Clinic's link:

http://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/vitamin-d/background/HRB-20060400