SciAm - No benefit from more than 20 ng of Vitamin D (nope) - Jan 2024

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"National population sampling showed that most people were already getting enough of the vitamin"
"...most people probably don't need supplements"
"...noting that the majority of the population is just fine at 16 ng/ml."
"...Levels have actually risen since [2010]" Actually, levels have fallen
Describes the failure of 4 trials that used too little vitamin D
Does not mention the >700 successful Vitamin D Randomized Controled Trials (see below)

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The IoM math mistakes made in 2010 and admitted to in 2017 have not been yet corrected

Vitamin D math mistakes made by the IoM in 2010 – K Baggerly 2016-2017

• Mistake #1: % of cadavers with poor bones with 20-30 ng of vitamin D
  • 8%, not 1% of the people having >20 ng/ml had bone loss, so the 20 ng/ml voted level was incorrect
  • should have concluded 30 ng, not 20 ng
• Mistake #2: Not having enough data to conclude that >4,000 IU is too much (i.e. harm)
• Mistake #3: Institute of Medicine used data only for bone health, but the rest of the body needs higher levels
• Mistake #4): Incorrectly estimated dose needed to get 97.5 % of population to a vitamin D level

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VitaminDWiki – Optimum category contains

The RDA is barely enough for the bones to survive.
   Need an optimal level for the body to thrive

99 items in Optimum Vitamin D category

Example pages

• Is 50 ng of vitamin D too high, just right, or not enough
• Revisiting Vitamin D Guidelines – Holick Oct 2024 has
  
• Saudi study defines normal Vitamin D level to be 50 to 70 ng (diabetes, etc.) - June 2020
• Need 40 to 60 ng of Vitamin D – 48 scientists call for action – 2015
• Vitamin D RDA of 600 IU is not enough - global RCT meta-analysis March 2019
• Vitamin D sufficiency 10 to 30 ng, optimal 40 to 80 ng (no consensus)– May 2018
• 4 X fewer visits to Dr. after getting high level of vitamin D (Interview with transcript) - Jan 3, 2022
• Vitamin D sufficiency 10 to 30 ng, optimal 40 to 80 ng (no consensus)– May 2018
• Sports benefits from up to 50 ng of Vitamin – meta-analysis - Nov 2012
• Vitamin D of 32 to 60 ng is needed before, during, and after pregnancy – Dec 2012
• Hypothesis by VitaminDWiki – Vitamin D levels are no longer limited by evolution
• VitaminDWiki pages with HIGH-DOSE in title 878 as of Nov 2024

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Vitamin D TREATS Health problems: 40 ng ...150 ng

Vitamin D	Treats
150 ng	Multiple Sclerosis *
80 ng	Cluster Headache * Reduced office visits by 4X *
70 ng	Sleep *
60 ng	Breast Cancer death reduced 60% Preeclampsia RCT
50 ng	COVID-19 T1 Diabetes Fertility Psoriasis Infections Review Infection after surgery
40 ng	Breast Cancer 65% lower risk Depression ACL recovery Hypertension Asthma?
30 ng	Rickets

* Evolution of experiments with patients, often also need co-factors

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VitaminDWiki – Over 1,000 studies prove that Vitamin D works

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35,000 IU vitamin D daily for 6 months helped ALL psoriasis suffers (106 ng) – Brazil March 2013

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Fewer Health Problems if more vitamin D Pregnancy

Details at: Overview Pregnancy and vitamin D

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253+ VitaminDWiki pages have 50,000 IU etc. in their title

Note: India uses 60,000 IU capsules