Hypothesis: Low vitamin D is responsible for many recent increases in health problems

this page was started April 2013, and was superseded by Incidence of 22 health problems related to vitamin D have doubled in a decade

Want to show that how many of the increased health problems are related to vitamin D deficiency

The following is a first cut at a summary

Health problem	% increase in recent decade
Autism	800 %
ADHD	300 %
Rickets
Food allergies	260 %
Asthma
Diabetes	40 %
Obesity	30 %
Multiple Sclerosis
Parkinson's Disease
Alzheimer's
Cancer - Melanoma	80 %
Cancers - child melanoma	24 %
Cancers- child brain	10 %
Cancer - Breast	50 %
C-Section	40 %
ALS Deaths	60 %
Vitamin D < 10ng Adult	130 %
Vitamin D < 10ng Black	270 %
Another

Perhaps I should augment the table with the strength of the association of vitamin D with each disease.

Strengths of A, B, C: (with different than typical definitions)

A (RCT have proven that vitamin D supplementation decreases the disease - prevent and/or treat)

B (Many studies have found that adding vitamin D decreases the disease)

C (Many studies have found that the disease is associated with low levels of vitamin D)

Some increases associated with elderly (Alz, Park, etc) must be adjusted for % of the population at that age

There are lots of theories as to what is causing each of the problems

such as: pollution, injections, GMO, sugar, calories, pesticides, poorer nutrition, smoking, being indoors playing video games,

Need to avoid contracting "The Panacea Paradox".

Almost universally, people are convinced that if something is too good to be true, then it should not be believed and is treated as false. So, when we encounter a situation in nature like vitamin D, people tune out when the claims become too numerous. Even as an increasing body of evidence points to a small number of highly prevalent deficiencies being required for the expression of many of our most common disorders, this universal disbelief kicks in... invalidating the science rather than embracing it. It is because people feel safer and more protected when they are more skeptical than open-minded.

It might be possible to side step the Panacea Paradox by

Vitamin D has influences many body processes like hormones do.

or - Vitamin D is similar to hormones in acting on many body processes.

(Most people are very aware of the power of hormones) perhaps provide a link to Sunshine Superhormone - Overview 2010

But, all of the health problems in the table are assocated with low levels of vitamin D.

And, sometimes the relationship has been proven, that is, increasing vitamin D decreases the health problem (prevention and/or treatment)

See Proof that Vitamin D Works