Ways to improve health

My opinion - which is based on reading >20,000 related studies
I would love to see attempts at quantifying this
   Henry Lahore, founder of VitaminDWiki,   2019

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"A 2013 report on the state of US health identified dietary factors as the single most significant risk factor for disability and premature death"

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Half of Diabetics cured in 16 days by eating a plant-based diet – Dr. Greger Sept 2019

Live 14 years longer with healthy lifestyle (2 years longer if good vitamin D) – Dr. Greger Oct 2019

Cost effective for US Medicare/Medicaid to give a 30% discount on healthy food - March 2019

“Prescribing” fruits and veggies would save $100 billion in medical costs Fast Company

• Cost effectivity results from the simulation of healthy foods decreasing direct medical cost due to just heart and diabetes problems
  • They would have found far bigger savings if they laos considered the reduction in many other health problems
• They note that
  • 86% of health care costs are due to lifestyle diseases
  • 76% of physician visits result in a drug prescription
• They apparently assumed a 30% decrease in cost of healthy food ==> 37% increase in healthy food purchase
  • A previous meta-analysis found that 1% decrease in the price of healthy food ==>1.24% increase in purchase
• They assumed 20% additional cost for administrating the program
• Calculated just the direct medical cost reductions and ignored other cost savings - such as time on job
• Apparently assumed that Medicare/Medicaid increasing health foods late in life will result in improved health
  • VitaminDWiki is unsure if that assumption is correct

Cost-effectiveness of financial incentives for improving diet and health through Medicare and Medicaid: A microsimulation study PLOS-Medicine
 Download the study PDF from VitaminDWiki

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Vitamin D Receptor

Vitamin D Receptor table shows what compensates for low VDR activation
Compensate for poor VDR by increasing one or more:

Increasing	Increases
1) Vitamin D supplement  Sun Ultraviolet -B	Vitamin D in the blood and thus in the cells
2) Magnesium	Vitamin D in the blood  AND in the cells
3) Omega-3	Vitamin D in the cells
4) Resveratrol	Vitamin D Receptor
5) Intense exercise	Vitamin D Receptor
6) Get prescription for VDR activator    paricalcitol, maxacalcitol?	Vitamin D Receptor
7) Quercetin (flavonoid)	Vitamin D Receptor
8) Zinc is in the VDR	Vitamin D Receptor
9) Boron	Vitamin D Receptor ?, etc
10) Essential oils e.g. ginger, curcumin	Vitamin D Receptor
11) Progesterone	Vitamin D Receptor
12) Infrequent high concentration Vitamin D Increases the concentration gradient	Vitamin D Receptor
13) Sulfroaphane and perhaps sulfur	Vitamin D Receptor
14) Butyrate especially gut	Vitamin D Receptor
15) Berberine	Vitamin D Receptor

Note: If you are not feeling enough benefit from Vitamin D, you might try increasing VDR activation. You might feel the benefit within days of adding one or more of the above

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Supplements

• Vitamin D Cofactors in a nutshell

Supplements category in VitaminDWiki has the following

Supplement	# of studies		Increase D to tissue	How Often
Vitamin D	986+	Most people do not have enough anymore	N.A.	daily to 2 weeks
Magnesium	365	Many people need Mg Vit D consumes Mg Muscle pain, Afib	30%	Several times a day
Vitamin K	157	Hard bones, soft arteries	115%	2 day
Omega-3	408	Synergistic with Vit D Independent of Vit D	30? %	2 day
Calcium	226	Reduce or add Vit K		2 day
Zinc	90	immunity	20 ?% if poor VDR	7 day
Boron	37	plants and animals need B	+20%	7 day
Resveratrol	48	antioxidant	>100% if poor VDR	Daily
Glutathione	10+	master antioxidant	Improves activation of 5 Vit D genes	Daily?

Also    Vitamin C 55

Iodine 32

Iron 68

Vitamin B12 59

Selenium 25

Folate 31

Example: Vitamin K

• Overview Vitamin K and Vitamin D
• Vitamin K1 and Vitamin K2 importance to health – Feb 2019
• Should increase Vitamin K when increasing Vitamin D – RCT Jan 2019
• Importance of Vitamin K – Pizzorno – July 2018

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Live Longer - data-based 2019

A lot more categories @ Information is Beautiful

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Yet again, review of poor nutrition education for doctors - JAMA March 2019

Nutrition Education in Medical School, Residency Training, and Practice

• "Beginning with medical school, the time devoted to nutrition is limited, with an average of 19 total hours..."
• "Similarly, requirements for nutrition education are lacking in specialty training programs. For example, the current Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Program Requirement document for internal medicine residency has 42 pages, and the document for cardiovascular disease fellowship has 41 pages, but neither document includes the words “nutrition” or “diet.”
• "In a 2017 survey of 646 cardiologists, 90% reported that they had not received adequate nutrition education to counsel their patients, even though 95% believed it was their personal responsibility to do so"
• "Is it appropriate to serve pizza and soft drinks at a resident conference while bemoaning the high prevalence of obesity and encouraging patients to eat healthier? A similarly poor example exists in medical conferences, including national meetings, where some morning sessions are accompanied by foods such as donuts and sausage"

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Note: Doctors are paid for treating health problems, not preventing them.
Doctors and hospitals have a negative financal incentive for preventing health problems
   Founder of VitaminDWiki

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Exercise

• Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity and Weight Outcomes: Does Every Minute Count? - 2013
  •  Download the PDF from VitaminDWiki
• Increased Exercise does not result in weight loss - review of 60 studies May 2019
  But, increased exercise can keep lost weight from coming back

See also: What is the easiest way to get healthy: Vitamin D, Healthy Food, or Exercise

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Ultraprocessed foods - an excellent article describing a book - July 2023

The Perils of Highly Processed Food

• "In the new book “Ultra-Processed People” (Norton), the British doctor and medical journalist Chris van Tulleken bravely turns himself into a" guinea pig to explore the ins and outs of ultra-processed food (U.P.F.)—basically, food made up of substances that you would never find at home.
• ...."he reports of his U.P.F. diet. “But at the same time, I was no longer enjoying it. Meals took on a uniformity: everything seemed similar, regardless of whether it was sweet or savoury. I was never hungry. But I was also never satisfied.” He gained weight, and so did his family: “It was impossible to stop the kids from eating my Coco Pops, slices of pizza, oven chips, lasagne, chocolate.” Sacrificing his health for science’s sake, he drinks a can of Diet Coke every morning for breakfast “and gradually began craving Diet Coke with every meal and between meals.”
• ..."we seek out the now hard-to-find, tart, low-sugar heirloom Winesap, and regard the Honeycrisp as a sensory lie of another kind, a poisoned apple. "
• "Technical names can make the familiar seem alien. We’d be put off if something were described as a concoction of luteolin, hydroxytyrosol, apigenin, oleic acid, and oleocanthal—but they’re all natural components of your extra-virgin olive oil."

Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food Amazon $7 kindle June 2023

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24+ VitaminDWiki pages with LONGEVITY etc in the title

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