Diabetes - video and books

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VIDEOS

Type 1
J Wright Video Aug 2010 approx 5 minutes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5BwO5iw7Xk
2000 IU to children with no overdose and ended up with 80% less Type 1 diabetes
But Finland was influenced by US and lowered from 2000 to 1000 (unconfirmed)
2nd experiment used Cod liver oil - which reduced Type 1 by 50%

Vitamin D and Diabetes-Can We Prevent it?

Feb 2009 UCDTV 48 minutes excellent - we also have the PDF from Grassrootshealth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTtmvMvgfl0 no longeravalable i Dec 2022

Dr. Zaidi -Vitamin D & Diabetes 2010 (author of books on diabetes and vitamin D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmMwL9EWkTs&feature=related

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20+ Diabetes and Vitamin D videos on Youtube

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VitaminDWiki - 4 studies in both categories Diabetes books and videos

This list is automatically updated

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VitaminDWiki - Overview Diabetes and vitamin D contains

• Diabetes is 5X more frequent far from the equator
• Children getting 2,000 IU of vitamin D are 8X less likely to get Type 1 diabetes
• Obese people get less sun / Vitamin D - and also vitamin D gets lost in fat
• Sedentary people get less sun / Vitamin D
• Worldwide Diabetes increase has been concurrent with vitamin D decrease and air conditioning
• Elderly get 4X less vitamin D from the same amount of sun
      Elderly also spend less time outdoors and have more clothes on
• All items in category Diabetes and Vitamin D 551 items: both Type 1 and Type 2

Vitamin D appears to both prevent and treat diabetes

• Appears that >2,000 IU will Prevent
• Appears that >4,000 IU will Treat , but not cure
• 90% less T2 Diabetes in the group having lots of Vitamin D
• Appears that Magnesium helps both Prevention and Treatment
• Many diabetics would be better treated if Gut-Friendly Vitamin D were used

Number of articles in both categories of Diabetes and:

• Dark Skin 24;   Intervention 56;   Meta-analysis 40;   Obesity 36;  Pregnancy 44;   T1 (child) 39;  Omega-3 11;  Vitamin D Receptor 24;  Genetics 13;  Magnesium 29    Click here to see details

Some Diabetes studies

• Take Vitamin D to prevent prediabetes from progressing into diabetes – American Diabetic Association – 2024
• Diabetes and Vitamin D meta-analyses - many studies 39+ as of Nov 2024
• 99.7% of people who got Diabetes had been regularly consuming food emulsifiers - May 2024
• Type 2 Diabetes treated by Vitamin D (often 50,000 IU weekly) – meta-analysis July 2023
• Diabetic inflammation synergistically decreased by Vitamin D and exercise – RCT June 2022
• Incidence of Type-2 Diabetes increased 3X in 30 years (by the way, Vitamin D helps) – July 2022
• Vitamin d treats Type II Diabetes in many ways (14 article review) - Sept 2021
• T2 Diabetes 30 percent more likely if poor Vitamin D Receptor – meta-analysis of 47 studies – July 2021

50 ng of Vitamin D fights Diabetes

• Saudi study defines normal Vitamin D level to be 50 to 70 ng (diabetes, etc.) - June 2020
• Diabetes 5X less likely if more than 50 ng of Vitamin D – April 2018

T1 Diabetes

• T1 Diabetes 3X lower risk if high vitamin D (over 40 ng) – Meta-analysis Nov 2020
• Type 1 Diabetes is prevented and treated by Vitamin D – review of 16 studies – Sept 2019
• Type 1 Diabetes prevention with Vitamin D and Omega-3 – Symposium April 2019

Pre-Diabetes

• 4X reduction in prediabetes progressing to T2D if more than 50 ng of vitamin D – RCT March 2023
• Prediabetes reduced by weekly 60,000 IU of Vitamin D – RCT Jan 2021
• Prediabetes 1.5 X more likely to go away if take Vitamin D – meta-analysis July 2020

Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Magnesium - many studies
Diabetic Epidemic

• Step back to 1994. Suppose an epidemic struck the United States, causing blindness, kidney failure, and leg amputations in steadily increasing numbers.
  Suppose that in less than a decade's time, the epidemic had victimized one out of every eight people
  That epidemic is real, and its name is diabetes, now the nation's sixth leading cause of death.
  Chart from the web (2018?)
  

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VitaminDWiki - Diabetes category contains

551 items In Diabetes category   34+ Prediabetes studies   64+ Type 1 Diabetes studies

see also Overview Diabetes and vitamin D  Overview Metabolic Syndrome and vitamin D

Autoimmune category listing has 200 items along with related searches

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BOOKS

Take Charge of Your Diabetes 2007 book with lots of vitamin D information

Amazon
Sarfraz Zaidi MD later wrote excellent book just on Vitamin D
Amazon - power of Vitamin D
which is reviewed on the vitamin D wiki - PDF version of the book is available from author for just $5

Diabetes Rising

Book by Dan Hurley – a medical reporter who has Type I diabetes Jan 2010
Amazonallows you to look inside of the book
Forward by the Editor of the Journal of Diabetes. Following notes by Henry Lahore March 2010
Part two of his book explores possible reasons that Diabetes is occurring more often in recent decades.
(The increase can be due to more than a single cause)
Hypothesis: weight gain
Hypothesis: cow’s milk
Hypothesis: persistent organic pollutants
Hypothesis: Too little sunshine
Hypothesis: Too clean

• CLICK HERE to read more about the book