The Top 10 Medical Expenses Can All Be Lowered by One Cheap Vitamin
22 VitaminDWiki pages have COST-EFFECTIVE in the title as of July 2026
- The top 10 medical expenses can all be decreased by vitamin D
Heart Conditions, Diabetes, Cancer, Obesity, COPD and Asthma, Traffic Injuries, Mental Disorders, Depression; Brain, Low Back and Neck Problems, Joint Disorders, High Blood Pressure,
Related in VitaminDWiki
- IVF 4X more successful for white women with lots of vitamin D – many studies
- Prevent a COVID death: 9 dollars of Vitamin D or 900,000 dollars of vaccine - Aug 2023
- 26 health factors increase the risk of COVID-19 – all are proxies for low vitamin D
- Vitamin D for all senior Germans would cost-effectively prevent 30,000 cancer deaths annually
- Depression cost-effectively reduced by 50,000 IU of Vitamin D monthly (Iranian teens)
- Giving free vitamin D to every Iranian would pay for itself by just reducing CVD
- Perhaps 4,000 dollars annual less health care costs per person if supplemented with 5 dollars of Vitamin D
- Vitamin D supplementation of all pregnant women (in UK) would be cost effective – just considering preeclampsia
Diabetes and PreDiabetes
- Diabetes prevented by 50,000 IU vitamin D monthly (Iran)
- Take Vitamin D to prevent prediabetes from progressing into diabetes – American Diabetes Association – 2024
- Prediabetes reduced by weekly 60,000 IU of Vitamin D – RCT
- Prediabetes both prevented and treated by monthly Vitamin D, etc.
Vitamin D would be cost-effective (Canada example)
Reduction in Canada due to improving vitamin D status
- Cancer|15 %
- Cardiovascular Disease |14 %
- Dementia |7 %
- Diabetes Mellitus| 18 %
- Multiple Sclerosis|40 %
- Osteoporosis (hip fractures)| 22 %
Respiratory infections|25 %
- Population of Canada = 32 million, so cost savings are $187 to $562 million per million population