24 years ago hip fractures were reduced 24 percent in a large trial using Vitamin D and Ca

Calcium and Vitamin D Supplements for Orthopedic Patients? Medscape

Since then there have been over 25 meta-analyses which have confirmed that trial

But, no change by the medical community in 24 years

Perhaps the hip fracture industry does not want to lose jobs

Meta-analyses of Falls and Fracture in VitaminDWiki

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• All items in category Falls or Fractures and Vitamin D items

• Hip fractures reduced 2X to 6X with just 10 minutes of sunlight daily – RCT 2003-2010

  • A pill is not required. Randomized Controlled Trials have found that sunlight reduces hip fractures even more

• Same dose of vitamin D for everyone is virtually impossible - Dec 2015

• Example Obese need 2X to 3X more vitamin D - Nov 2014

• Additional supplments can reduce hip fractures even more. Examples: Magnesium, Boron

• 55 X more likely to have bone fracture requiring surgery if low vitamin D

• 21 reasons why doctors are reluctant to accept Vitamin D

  • 10th reason: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary is dependent upon his not understanding it”
  • • Note: in 2012 one doctor reduced patient visits from 4 per year to 1 per year by getting all patients to have a high level of vitamin D

•       Result of vitamin D: Lost too much business and retired early.

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Huge cost savings (jobs lost) if reduce number of hip fractures

• $14 billiion annually for US hip fractures
  • Hip fracture patients are 30% of all US hospital patients
• UK would save as least 636 million dollars annually by giving 800 IU vitamin D free to all seniors – June 2014
  • Note; UK only considered hip fractures

• Save 2 billion dollars annually in fractures if take Vitamin D and Calcium – Frost and Sullivan Sept 2013 VitaminDWiki

• 20X increase in vitamin D sold and 36 percent decrease in osteoporosis business in Australia – Nov 2013

  • Australians apparently did not wait until there was a medical consensus
  • They are consuming more vitamin D and are going to the Osteo doctor 36% less
• Kaiser working to decrease hip and other fractures – Nov 2011
  • HMOs will save millions of dollars with vitamin D Kaiser is a large HMO

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>10 times difference in rate of hip fractures around the world

Perhaps differences are due to one or more of: Vitamin D, Sunshine, Boron, Magnesium