Do not expect a doctor to recommend a pill which will eliminate his job (vitamin D)

Created October 2015

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary is dependent upon his not understanding it”

10th reason in 21 reasons why doctors are reluctant to accept Vitamin D

Does Less Sun mean More Disease 5 minute video

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.

Proof that Vitamin D Works 78 PROOFS as of Feb 2017

Note: Many recent trials are not randomized - researchers appear to not want to condem a portion of the trial subjects to low vitamin D

When doctors will also decide that many people need vitamin D?

Less sun ==> Less Vitamin D ==> Less Health

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INTERVENTION: Give Vitamin D to some people and see what happens

Intervention studies Sorted by disease prevented and/or treated

Meta-analysis of the Vitamin D Clinical Trials items

VitaminDWiki is focusing on those who profit from vitamin D (rather than on those who lose)

Goal of VitaminDWiki - Improve Global Health

Health Maintenance Organizations have a failry fixed annual income per participant

For HMOS: More Vitamin D ==> Less cost ==> More profit

Healthy pregnancies need lots of vitamin D summarizes the increases in health with vitamin D

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21 reasons why doctors are reluctant to accept Vitamin D
Vitamin D deficiency again associated with higher cost of health care – April 2015
Save 2 billion dollars annually in fractures if take Vitamin D and Calcium – Frost and Sullivan Sept 2013
UK would save as least 636 million dollars annually by giving 800 IU vitamin D free to all seniors – June 2014
Getting Vitamin D into your blood and cells
- Many ways include: +sun, supplement, fortify (including home fortification), injection,
- Many types: topical, spray, powder, some herbs,
Vitamin D levels increasing 7 percent per year, bones denser in Japan (probably supplementation) - June 2015
20X increase in vitamin D sold and 36 percent decrease in osteoporosis business in Australia – Nov 2013
- Australians are getting more vitamin D (typically without Dr. recommendation) ==> 36% less osteoporosis
A little story about Australians and increased vitamin D levels

For decades Australians had been told that sunshine was deadly. They avoided the sun, and some even used sunscreen 24 hours a day, during all seasons. Then they noticed a big increase in a great many diseases. The public thought that these increases might be due to low vitamin D from lack of sun. The doctors said no, could not be, and the government would not even allow selling capsules containing more than 1000 IU The public asked for vitamin D tests (about a 100X increase in 11 years) The government then refused to pay for any more (unnecessary) vitamin D tests. That did not stop the public - they took matter into their own hands. **Slight increase in Vitamin D levels (entire country increased vitamin D by 20X in a decade)** **While the rest of the world had DECREASING levels of vitamin D**

Tags: Cost savings Increased use of D