Dr. Berg 4 minute video
VitaminDWiki – Low Vitamin D is worse for your health than smoking contains:
| 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 X Lung 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 |
VitaminDWiki – Smoking reduces vitamin D - many studies contains:
Two pathways are often proposed for how smoking decreases vitamin D:
1) Smoking decreases Calcium. and Vitamin D is used up in replacing the Calcium
2) Smoking injures the body, and vitamin D is used up in repairing the body
It appears that taking Vitamin D while smoking will:
1) Decrease the incidence of the many health problems associated with smoking - even lung cancer
2) Decrease the desire to smoke (perhaps take fewer smoking breaks?)
3) Increase breathing capacity
Opinion: If you must smoke, have recently smoked, or are getting 2nd hand smoke:
take Vitamin D and perhaps Omega-3
They will extinguish much of the inflammation caused by inhaling tobacco smoke.
Vitamin D should also help people quit smoking
1) Reduces weight gain associated with quitting smoking
2) Reduces depression associated with quitting smoking