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Originally Posted by Shimpy
When you hear "consult your doctor" it's for a good reason. After going on blood thinners prescribed after I had a valve replaced in my heart I decided to go back to taking fish oil capsules as requested by eye doctor. It showed in my monthly test for blood thickness that the fish oil made my blood too thin using it with coumadin.
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Thanks! That is good to know.
My ophthalmologist has me taking a lot of fish oil but even a good thing can be overdone. Every physician we see needs to know our full story for even seemingly innocuous reasons.
Apparently many people are short on vitamin D. Even if one gets a lot of sun that may not take care of it. Melanin content of one's skin may have something to do with that. I am not sure.
"Larger amounts of the pigment melanin in the epidermal layer result in darker skin and reduce the skin's ability to produce vitamin D from sunlight.[23] It is not sure that lower levels of 25(OH)D for persons with dark skin have significant health consequences."