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- Night shift workers far more likely to have low vitamin D levels
- Diabetic blacks – 80 percent had low vitamin D (less than 20 ng) a decade before
- Multiple Sclerosis risk a decade later was 2X higher if low vitamin D (12 ng vs 20 ng)
- The Role of Vitamin D in Thyroid Diseases
- Speculation – Weekly vitamin D dose will be better than daily if poor Receptor
- Gallstones 33 percent more likely if born during winter
- Brain cells can probably activate Vitamin D without liver or kidney (at least in rats)
- Lung bacteria decreased by 1,000 IU of vitamin D (only in non-smokers) – RCT
- TB not treated by vitamin D given for only 2 months – RCT
- Preeclampsia risk reduced 60 percent if supplement with Vitamin D (they ignored dose size) – meta-analysis
- Women with PCOS 4 X more likely to develop T2 Diabetes (no surprise, both associated with low vitamin D)
- Dry eye decreased with weekly 50,000 IU vitamin D injection for 8 weeks
- Nutrition courses in only 1 in 4 medical schools – JAMA
- Obese are 30 percent more likely to have poor Vitamin D Receptor
- Off topic – 20 percent overtreatment in US
- Randomized Controlled Trials, vs Pragmatic Trials, vs Health Insurance Trials – NEJM
- Pregnancy needs at least 40 ng of vitamin D, achieved by at least 4,000 IU – Hollis
- Vitamin D levels in Alaska are decreasing – does less fish mean less health
- Estrogen contraception pill doubled the response to 1,000 IU of vitamin D – RCT
- Low serum Magnesium readings in ICU were wrong 80 percent of the time