Vitamin D status of German adults - 2015
52% of adults have a deficient status (<30 <nmol/l) in wintertime,
30% more adults were deficient than 10 years earlier
Rabenberg M et al: BMC Public Health. 2015
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Note: Germany, like many other countries in 2016, considers 20 nanogram level of vitamin D to be adequate
Vitamin D levels around the world (2014)
click on chart for details and other regions of the world
Note: Germany does not permit sales of vitamin D dose > 1,000 IU (still as of 2016)
New Zealand and several other countries have similar restrictions
Many just order their vitamin D from other countries
See also VitaminDWiki
- Vitamin D Deficiency
- Is 50 ng of vitamin D too high, just right, or not enough
- Vast majority of Europeans have less than 30 ng of Vitamin D – Aug 2016
- 3X increase in UK children who are vitamin D deficient in just 5 years – Nov 2015
- UK proposes that 10 ng level and 400 IU is enough Vitamin D for everybody (no and no)- July 2015
UK government recommended levels are even lower than those in Germany - Osteoporosis Society UK: 20 ng vitamin D is sufficient, loading dose 300,000 IU – Sept 2014
2X higher than the UK government, but should be 4X higher than the government - Many Germans have less than 20 ng of vitamin D, hardly any over 40 ng – corrected from 2010
- Vitamin D levels in Europe – Sept 2014 lots of data, no charts
- Search VitaminDWiki for GERMANY 1370 items as of Dec 2016
- Increasing German levels of vitamin D to 30 ng could save 18,300 lives annually - Dec 2009
- Central Europe, like most of the world, has low vitamin D levels (under 30ng) – March 2014
One doctor in Germany starts with a loading dose of 400,000 IU of Vitamin D - Vitamin D3 and K2 combined supplements - perhaps 2016
another Dr. in Germany - a very large Vitamin D website - Here is a UK company that ships 50,000 IU Bio-Tech products to all of the European countries