Note: The trial lasted only 8 weeks
Can anticipate even better results for trials lasting 12-24 weeks
Overview Diabetes and vitamin D contains the following

• Diabetes is 5X more frequent far from the equator
• Children getting 2,000 IU of vitamin D are 8X less likely to get Type 1 diabetes
• Obese people get less sun / Vitamin D - and also vitamin D gets lost in fat
• Sedentary people get less sun / Vitamin D
• Worldwide Diabetes increase has been concurrent with vitamin D decrease and air conditioning
• Elderly get 4X less vitamin D from the same amount of sun
      Elderly also spend less time outdoors and have more clothes on
• All items in category Diabetes and Vitamin D 404 items: both Type 1 and Type 2

Vitamin D appears to both prevent and treat diabetes

• Appears that >2,000 IU will Prevent
• Appears that >4,000 IU will Treat , but not cure
• Appears that Calcium and Magnesium are needed for both Prevention and Treatment
      which are just some of the vitamin D cofactors

which also includes Diabetic Epidemic

• Step back to 1994. Suppose an epidemic struck the United States, causing blindness, kidney failure, and leg amputations in steadily increasing numbers.
  Suppose that in less than a decade's time, the epidemic had victimized one out of every eight people
  That epidemic is real, and its name is diabetes, now the nation's sixth leading cause of death.
  Chart from the web (2018?)
  

Kidney

• Every child with kidney problems (ideopathic nephrotic syndrome) had low vitamin D – Oct 2015
• Diabetic nephropathy (Kidney problem) 1.8 X more likely if poor Vitamin D Receptor – meta-analysis July 2017
• Diabetic neuropathy reduced by injection of 600,000 IU of vitamin D – Feb 2016
• Diabetic Nephropathy – active vitamin D helps – Dec 2014
• Blacks have 4X more Kidney disease than whites – probably due to low vitamin D – March 2015
• Diabetic neuropathy least likely if have 30-40 ng of vitamin D – Oct 2015

See also: Diabetic Neuropathy (feet)

• Peripheral diabetic neuropathy helped by weekly 50,000 IU vitamin D – Jan 2019
• Diabetic Neuropathy sometimes can be reversed by vitamin D
• Pain of Diabetic Neuropathy reduced with weekly 50,000 IU vitamin D– CT Feb 2015
• Vitamin D helps Diabetic Nephropathy kidneys – meta-analysis April 2019
• Diabetics are 2.7 X more likely to get peripheral neuropathy if low vitamin D – meta-analysis Dec 2014
• Peripheral neuropathy pain associated with low vitamin D – Aug 2018
• Neuropathy - 5X more had a good Quality of Life after 600,000 IU of Vitamin D - 2017
• Diabetic neuropathy and low vitamin D, especially in blacks - July 2011

Diabetes

• Diabetes treated if given enough vitamin D (example: 50,000 IU weekly) – review of RCT - Jan 2017

Overview Diabetes and vitamin D contains the following summary

• Diabetes is 5X more frequent far from the equator
• Children getting 2,000 IU of vitamin D are 8X less likely to get Type 1 diabetes
• Obese people get less sun / Vitamin D - and also vitamin D gets lost in fat
• Sedentary people get less sun / Vitamin D
• Worldwide Diabetes increase has been concurrent with vitamin D decrease and air conditioning
• Elderly get 4X less vitamin D from the same amount of sun
      Elderly also spend less time outdoors and have more clothes on
• All items in category Diabetes and Vitamin D 404 items: both Type 1 and Type 2

Vitamin D appears to both prevent and treat diabetes

• Appears that >2,000 IU will Prevent
• Appears that >4,000 IU will Treat , but not cure
• Appears that Calcium and Magnesium are needed for both Prevention and Treatment
      which are just some of the vitamin D cofactors

Diabetes category starts with the following

see also Overview Diabetes and vitamin D  Overview Metabolic Syndrome and vitamin D

T1 diabetes OR type1 diabetes in title 107 as of April 2018
prediabetes OR prediabetic 336 items as of Jan 2018
Search VitaminDWiki for Peripheral Neuropathy 238 items April 2018

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