Why are doctors reluctant to accept vitamin D

Monday April 23, 2012

We had been speculating why the medical profession has been so slow to accept vitamin D. Probable reasons appear to include:

  1. Myth: Excess vitamin D will turn the human body into marble
    ~hs~
  2. Reversal of position for many previous supplements.
    ~hs~
  3. Risk being sued if exceed guidelines
    ~hs~
  4. Experts do not agree
    ~hs~
  5. Doctors were rarely been trained in nutrition
    ~hs~
  6. Emphasis on treatment, not prevention
    ~hs~
  7. Doctors often can only prescribe D2 anyway
    ~hs~
  8. Seems like too much of a “wonder drug”
    ~hs~
  9. Fear possible loss of income
    ~hs~
    "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary is dependent upon his not understanding it” ~hs~Upton Sinclair
    ~hs~

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