Review of Random Controlled Trials for Vitamin D, by Dr. Grant Jan 2012
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Vitamin D Blog
Response in the blood to a vitamin D supplement can be much lower for some individuals
Reasons include:
- Vitamin D not taken with a meal which had mono-saturated fat (such as almonds)
- Person did not have enough Calcium or Magnesium
- Person was elderly, overweight, had gut problems, was smoking, had different genes
- Person was taking drugs which block or consume vitamin D
CLICK HERE for details, more reasons, as well as a great chart
Many UV/vitamin D calculators in English on web/iPad/Smartphone
Huge difference between between the calculators in ease of use and what each one considers:
weight, skin color, amount of skin exposed, time of day, age,
The calculators typically just estimate the amount of vitamin D intake from sunshine - but some also include intake from supplements and food
Some calculators base their estimates of the UV expected for the day at your location - but sometimes this does not include possible clouds.
The calculators do not try to estimate the vitamin D level in your book nor how much is needed to PREVENT or TREAT diseases
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VitaminDWiki has a lot more information
- Free, instant test to see if you are very vitamin D deficient - it is not quantitative
- Low cost Vitamin D tests generally $40 to $70. Some can be done at home.
- UB Meters low cost measures all UV, higher cost to measure just UVB (Vitamin D spectra)
- All items in Vitamin D Blog
- Home Page
- List of categories of vitamin D information - with # of items in each
- Published Recommendations
- Reasons for Vit D deficiency
- Low cost and many forms of vitamin D
- Vitamin D 101
When will it become a crime to fail to recommend or provide vitamin D?
Will the criminals be pet owners, parents, doctors, or hospitals?
Doctors are slow to change for many reasons
Additional reasons to not recommend Vitamin D includes patents and Vitamin D2
However, benefits of vitamin D have been proven
Will the criminals be pet owners, parents, doctors, or hospitals?
- Owners of pet monkey charged with cruelty by nor providing vitamin D Dec 2011
Quote: . . criminal malpractice not to recommend vitamin D
Quote: . . it is medical malpractice for obstetricians not to know what the Vitamin D level of their patients is - Mother and father on trial for infant death – set free – death was due to rickets – Dec 2011
- Perhaps in a region far from the Equator – such as Alaska Or Scotland
- Many people stay too long in hospitals (and sometimes dies) due to lack of vitamin D
- Pregnancy ends in C-sections, low birth weight, fetal death, etc due to low vitamin D
Infants with low vitamin D have vastly increased asthma, diabetes, etc. - Vets give about 3X vitamin D than the US govt recommends
Vets are rewarded when the patient is healthy, vs doctors are rewarded when the patient is sick
Doctors are slow to change for many reasons
- “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary is dependent upon his not understanding it” Upton Sinclair
- Gynocologists may have the most to lose when patients have enough vitamin D
- Cancer doctors are a close second
- Doctors are wary of yet another vitamin which claims too much (A, B, C, E . . . )
- Doctors cannot change for vitamin D tests in many countries such as Canada and insurance plans
- Medical professionals are often not aware of groups which are at high-risk of being vitamin D deficient, nor the causes
- Doctors who do not follow "accepted practice" (and more vitamin D is not yet accepted practice) open themselves up to mal-practice law suits.
Additional reasons to not recommend Vitamin D
- Experts have been unable to agree on vitamin D levels: 30 ng, 50 ng, or what
While experts have been unable to agree, the US govt lowered the vitamin D level to 20 ng - Many health applications of vitamin D have been patented
Examples: Reduce weight, reduce chemotherapy needed, reduce falls, reduce scars, improve fertility,
treat heart disease, treat endometriosis, treat liver disease, treat type 1 diabetes, etc. etc. - Often doctors can only prescribe vitamin D2
D2 has been proven many times to actually decrease blood levels and/or make the health condition worse - Healthcare systems are typically rewarded for providing treatment, not prevention
However, a huge number of vitamin D trials and meta-analysis of trials have proven the great benefits of vitamin D
- All Meta-analysis items in VitaminDWiki 38 Meta-analysis as of Jan 2012
Note: Meta-analysis are analysis of the results of 10 to 30 Random Controlled Trials
As of Dec 2011 there were >700 Vitamin D intervention clinical trials - more than any other medical intervention. - Overview Evidence for vitamin D
VitaminDWiki has a lot more information
Highlights of Vitamin D news for Nov/Dec 2011
Includes Blog posts, Forum entries
CLICK HERE for Vitamin D Wiki News - Generally Monthly update
And has the following three images
CLICK HERE for details about Women and Vitamin D
CLICK HERE for Chemo Details
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Consensus: 0 ng is bad and 30 ng is good/ok
CLICK HERE for Vitamin D opinions
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VitaminDWiki has a lot more information
Experts believe that vitamin D should be in the range between 30 to 50 nanograms
Notional Graph of Expert Opinions of vitamin D levels
Consensus: 0 ng is bad and 30 ng is good/ok
CLICK HERE for more information on chart
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VitaminDWiki has a lot more information
Vitamin D is very important in the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital
Many ICU studies in 2011 have shown that
- Many people in ICU are low on vitamin D
- Those in ICU who are low on vitamin D: stay longer, are more likely to die, and get more infections
Here are some ICU references at VitaminDWiki
- ICU patients with low vitamin D stayed longer and had more sepsis – Dec 2011 The most recent paper
- ICU time is 2X more likely to be longer than 2 days if vitamin D less than 20 ng – Mar 2011
- Critical Care patients with low vitamin D were 85 percent more likely to die – Sept 2011
- Virtually all veterans in ICU had vitamin D less than 32 ng – Jan 2011
- veterans with enough vitamin D were almost 2X more likely to survive ICU – Oct 2010
- Study: 540,000 IU oral to ten patients near death in an ICU as a single dose achieved around 40 ng/ml, but it takes three days to do so
- "I predict that eventually vitamin D will be available as an IV and that the most useful preparation will be intravenous 25(OH)D."
- Vitamin D might reduce sepsis
- MRSA inpatient cost 2X higher if less than 20 ng vitamin D – June 2011
- Staph infection reduced 50 percent when have more than 30 ng of vitamin D – Aug 2011
- Septic patients vitamin D so low that small changes did not matter – June 2011
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VitaminDWiki has a lot more information
- Only 200 IU vitamin D in intravenous feeding of multivitamins – Aug 2012
- All items in Vitamin D Blog
- Home Page
- List of categories of vitamin D information - with # of items in each
- Published Recommendations
- Reasons for Vit D deficiency
- Low cost and many forms of vitamin D
- Low cost Vitamin D tests
- Vitamin D 101
Vitamin D enhances many types of Chemotherapy - by supercharging your immune system
So, be careful about taking vitamin D IF your doctor is unwilling to reduce the amount of chemo to be given.
Chemo dosages were established for the majority of people who have low levels of vitamin D in their blood.
It appears that if you take the normal Chemo dose AND a good level of vitamin D in your blood you will get 2X the impact.
CLCK HERE for details on Chemo and Vitamin D
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VitaminDWiki has a lot more information
Vitamin D and Calcium results in 1/4 as much Cancer
CLICK HERE for Overview of Vitamin D and Cancer - which includes the above information
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VitaminDWiki has a lot more information
Vitamin D fortification of food - review Dec 2011
Excellent article describes
- What vitamin D food fortification is technically possible
- What laws in various countries restrict vitamin D fortification
Sample graphic
See also VitaminDWiki for fortification
- Vitamin D history back to Egyptians and fortification - Aug 2011
- Suppliers surmounting vitamin D fortification challenges – March 2010
- A plea for Vitamin D food fortification in India May 2010
- All items in Food Sources category 59 items as of Dec 2011