Low Vitamin D is worse for your health than smoking
| Vitamin D Deficiency is worse than smoking | Vitamin D Deficiency | Smoking |
| Increase in a health problem | 19 X Dementia 60 X Rickets 55 X Surgery after bone fracture 23 X Vertigo |
23 XLung Cancer |
| Cause of premature death each year in US | 400,000 5X more likely to survive Lung Cancer if high Vit D |
480,000 (CDC) |
| Causes of problem | 1) Less Sunlight 2) Less D in Food 3) Less Magnesium 4) Lower Omega-3 index |
Tobacco |
| Associated with top causes of death | 10 of the top 11 | 6 of top 11 |
| Number of PubMed studies before US consensus | >29,000 | 7,000 |
| Number of associated diseases | > 300 | 39 |
| The number of randomized controlled trials which have confirmed the problem |
> 600 | 0 trials found |
| Perhaps 30 years from problem indication until US consensus |
1990 - 2020? | 1934-1964 |
See also VitaminDWiki
- Smoking reduces vitamin D
- Increasing Vitamin D decreases health problems due to smoking
- Vitamin D appears to reduce the need to smoke
- Smoking reduces vitamin D levels by 9 ng
- Both 2nd-hand and 3rd-hand smoke reduces vitamin D levels
- Both VDD and Smoking cause fetus and infant problems - including death
- Infant VDD worse than 2nd-hand smoke
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