Vitamin D deficiency in Russia – treatment and prevention – Sept 2021

Prevention and Treatment of Vitamin D Deficiency: Choosing the Best Approach

> Melnichenko https://doi.org/10.15690/vsp.v20i4.2246
G. A. Melnichenko , L. S. Namazova-Baranova , O. A. Gromova , O. M. Drapkina , T. L. Karonova , K. S. Kulikova , Yu. A. Krupinova , O. M. Lesnyak , N. V. Mazurina , A. A. Panov , E. A. Pigarova , L. Ya. Rozhinskaya , Zh. E. Belaya , L. A. Ruyatkina , L. A. Suplotova

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Note: they use Vitamin D3 or Vitamin D2 (which has a short half life - much less than a month)

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Deficiency of Vitamin D category starts with the following

468 items   Some Highlights:

• Overview Deficiency of vitamin D
• Many reasons why vitamin D deficiency has become epidemic
  •   23 of the 40 reasons are recent
• Many doctors continue to believe 2,000 IU of vitamin D is max (Hungary in this case)– Dec 2021
• 73 percent of US infants still do not even get 400 IU of Vitamin D - June 2020
• Vitamin D levels are dropping rapidly – what you need to do
• 4 Reasons why Vitamin D levels are crashing
  • Update Reasons for Low Vitamin D and what to do with a concise table
• Air Pollution reduces Vitamin D production - many studies
• Vitamin D levels in 56 countries (many have less than 20 ng) – 2021
• Trends in vitamin D status around the world – Nov 2021
• Vitamin deficiency in US military – Vitamin D is the most prevalent and is growing rapidly – June 2021
• Smoking reduces vitamin D - many studies 77 studies as of Feb 2024
• Low Vitamin D is worse for your health than smoking
• Many categories of people are at High Risk of low vitamin D - 67 studies
• 26 health factors increase the risk of COVID-19 – all are proxies for low vitamin D
• Diseases arising from depletion are cured by repletion - Hippocrates 400 BC

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Vitamin D3 instead of D2 category in VitaminDWiki starts with

Some of the 104 items

• Overview Vitamin D3 not D2
• Physicians Desk Reference still only lists D2, but not Vitamin D3 – Feb 2022
• Vitamin D3 better than D2, especially if non-daily or high dose - meta-analysis Sept 2021
• It’s Time to Say “Goodbye” to Vitamin D2 - 2015
• Vitamin D2 decreases levels of D3 (again) and visa versa – RCT Jan 2019
• It’s (way past) time to stop prescribing with Vitamin D2 (ergocalciferol) – Oct 2018
• If you have a vitamin D prescription, be sure that it is for D3– June 2017
• Vitamin D reduces risk of cause specific death, unless it is D2 – meta-analysis BMJ April 2014
• Vitamin D2 should not be used as a Vitamin supplement for any mammal – Oct 2006
• Loading dose of Vitamin D2 REDUCED vitamin D blood in a third of the patients – Jan 2015