Vitamin D Theory of Autism

Vitamin-D council ^ | Dr. John Cannell

[Coleus]

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[devere]

Vitamin D may tur out to be good for everything but auto accidents.

[3AngelaD]

I think the skin cancer epidemic coincides with the campaign to discourage exposure to the sun. Everything in moderation. But if the sun is such a deadly cause of skin cancer, how did our ancestors survive?

[devane617]

Vit D is very interesting to me. Especially since I was dx’d with Prostate cancer last Oct. I think sun exposure has more benefits than risks, but the loons has guided into fear of cancer if we step outside. As I understand, 30 minutes of sun exposure for a person with fair to medium complexion will produce 15000 IU of D.

[Blogger]

Most of them didn’t. They’re dead :)

[Ditter]

You think the “skin cancer epidemic” is a government plot? You should see the arms and face of my 73 year old blond blue eyed husband. He was a sailor on an Coast guard Cutter, then he was a rancher, fisherman and hunter for the remained of his life. Now he has a standing appointment every 3 months with the dermatologist. The doc cuts new lesions off of him every appointment. So far no melanoma but he has had ever other kind of skin cancer. He never wore sunblock and this is what he gets.

[count-your-change]

The autism/vit.D connection sounds like a plausible argument, given the effect of hormones on the developing brain.

[Soliton]

I have an autistic son and a wife who spent her pregnancy by a pool in Clearwater Florida.

Neeeeeeeeext.

[pandoraou812]

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[blam]

Nationally (Worldwide), Black Africans have the lowest rates of skin cancer and Australians the highest.

Black Africans usually get skin cancer only on their bottom inside lip and the palms of their hands...both areas are white.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Sun avoidance isn’t the only factor in the epidemic of vitamin D deficiency. Maybe not even the main one. Over this same period, milk consumption has plummeted, and it has long been artificially fortified with vitamin D. This is briefly mentioned on page 8 of the article, and deserves more attention.

Excuses for avoiding milk consumption abound. A large portion of the US black population claims to be “lactose intolerant”, even though what limited research has been done on this subject has found that a majority of those who claim to be lactose intolerant actually aren’t. Still, soda and other soft drinks are used as the chief alternatives to milk by the supposedly lactose intolerant (of all races), and it’s safe to assume they also convert their children to these beverages earlier than other people. And then there’s the bizarre phobia re fat content of foods, which was promoted by both the government and the medical profession for a long time (hard to tell them apart sometimes), which has only recently started to let up. Blue milk is gross, so many people who are convinced they mustn’t drink milk with natural fat content just don’t drink milk at all. If the adults don’t have real milk around the house for their own consumption, they’re also less likely to have it handy for the young children. Plus the always-on-the-run lifestyle that has reached epidemic proportions, lends itself to carrying around sodas and juices and bottled water, but not milk which quickly goes bad without refrigeration. And then there’s the vegan fad . . . don’t even get me started on that one.

[McGruff]

I’m going to let you tell the Imuses that it wasn’t George Bush injecting little kids with mercury based vaccines. That was their theory.

[ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY]

“30 minutes of sun exposure for a person with fair to medium complexion will produce 15000 IU of D.”

NOT TRUE. One hour to 1-1/2 hours at mid-day on an uncovered body will produce about 1000-1500 IU.

[devane617]

I am probably wrong. I remember reading an article on CNN (barf) a couple of months ago detailing sun exposure and how much Vit D is made. I will try to search it out in a while.

[devane617]

ROLF, Here is a link to a CNN story with the info I quoted:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/diet.fitness/05/20/cl.vitamin.d/index.html
"1,000 IU per day --is still a small dose," Willett says. (Consider this: A fair-skinned person can manufacture 15,000 IU or more of vitamin D in as little as 30 minutes of optimal sun exposure.) "

[ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY]

Well, considering that it’s from a MSM site where EVERYTHING gets garbled by idiotic journalists, I would say that they’ve dropped an hour and got stuck on the zero key.

My info came straight from my endocrinologist; I trust the source more.

[Coleus]

that's why most doctors suggest vitamin supplementation rather than exposure. epidemiological studies started the vitamin d research as they found that people who live closer to the equator have less: prostate and breast cancer and less autoimmune diseases such as: lupus and MS.

[Coleus]

I have an autistic son and a wife who spent her pregnancy by a pool in Clearwater Florida. >>

did your wife use sunblock, how much vitamin d was in the pre-natal vitamins, how many vaccines did your son have, how much mercury was in the vaccines, was your son’s vitamin-d level ever checked after 1 yr. of age, did the article say that vitamin d was the only solution, the only preventable way to avoid autism? I don’t think so.

[Soliton]

My wife took prenatal vitamins and did away with caffeine, artificial sweeteners and alcohol during her pregnancy. She was brown as a pecan when my son was born.