Germans, like many other Europeans, are vitamin D insufficient - only 12 percent have more than 30 ng - 2015
Vitamin D status of German adults - 2015
52% of adults have a deficient status (<30
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1. Note: Germany, like many other countries in 2016, considers 20 nanogram level of vitamin D to be adequate
1. Vitamin D levels around the world (2014)
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1. Note: Germany does not permit sales of vitamin D dose > 1,000 IU (still as of 2016)
New Zealand and several other countries have similar restrictions
Many just order their vitamin D from other countries
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Vast majority of Europeans have less than 30 ng of Vitamin D – Aug 2016
3X increase in UK children who are vitamin D deficient in just 5 years – Nov 2015
UK proposes that 10 ng level and 400 IU is enough Vitamin D for everybody (no and no)- July 2015
- UK government recommended levels are even lower than those in Germany
- Osteoporosis Society UK: 20 ng vitamin D is sufficient, loading dose 300,000 IU – Sept 2014
- 2X higher than the UK government, but should be 4X higher than the government
Many Germans have less than 20 ng of vitamin D, hardly any over 40 ng – corrected from 2010
Vitamin D levels in Europe – Sept 2014 lots of data, no charts
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Increasing German levels of vitamin D to 30 ng could save 18,300 lives annually - Dec 2009
Central Europe, like most of the world, has low vitamin D levels (under 30ng) – March 2014
- One doctor in Germany starts with a loading dose of 400,000 IU of Vitamin D
- Vitamin D3 and K2 combined supplements - perhaps 2016
- another Dr. in Germany - a very large Vitamin D website
- Here is a UK company that ships 50,000 IU Bio-Tech products to all of the European countries