I’ve quit trusting in medical knowledge about nutrition. There doesn’t seem to be any truly “settled science” underlying many (strongly held) assumptions. (My diabetic family still hasn’t heard about low carb diets from their doctors.)
They’ve been wrong about vitamin D and I’ll add another one, vitamin C. Vitamin C cures atherosclerosis and lowers LDL cholesterol. It doesn’t take megadoses either (total of 1000 mg will do). Many older people have symptoms of low grade scurvy and don’t know it. I didn’t and my doctor didn’t recognize it. Linus Pauling was right on this 40 years ago.
The medical community is behind the eight ball on a LOT of issues.
We found that out with the kidney stones that mr. mm deals with. They are coming around, but the natural health community, which the medical community scorns and sneers at, was right about the need for more calcium, more Vitamin D, and fewer oxylates.
I thought Arthur Robinson’s experiments disproved Pauling’s vitamin C hypothesis. Isn’t that why they had a falling out?
Also, I’d heard that experimenters with DDT used to call it vitamin DDT because of the positive effects it had on the health of rats.
However, taking very large doses of vitamin C also increase the risk of cataracts. Nothing is without risk, no matter how good it seems.