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One study states that Northern folks who get a lot of sun in the summer will get enough vitamin D to carry them over the winter.
Personally, there’s no question how much I need vitamin D. I don’t take supplements in the summer - a few days without sun and I’m not feeling so good. A good afternoon in the sun and it’s all reversed. Supplements in the winter is a must.
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Shoddy? Shoddy methods? What a crock. Vit D deficiency is a myth? This report sounds shoddy.
Doctors hate supplements...healthy people are BAD for business...
All I know is I heard about taking vitamin D supplements on a podcast about a year ago. I started taking about 3,000 units a day and I’ve not had a single cold or sore throat the entire time. I used to get sick several times a year without the supplement. It’s cheap insurance.
On a scale of 1-100 my vitamin D level tested to a 13. The Dr. told me should be above 30.
I’m not surprised. A vast number of studies end up showing what the study authors set out to find in the first place—i.e., they’re biased to begin with.
Anyone eating a balanced diet does not need supplements. Pill popping is a rather new phenomenon—humans certainly did not evolve to require nutritional supplements to survive. The only time such supplements are actually needed is when there is clearly malnutrition. We have a good food supply—most of us have never even seen someone with malnutrition.
As a biochemist, I am very hesitant to put anything into my body that is not food. You either have enough nutrients, or you don’t—consuming 100 or 1000 times your daily needs is not 100 or 1000 times better. It puts stress on your body, because now your liver and kidneys must work extra hard to remove all those excess chemicals (yes, vitamins and minerals are chemicals) from your body. And if the vitamin is fat-soluble, then your body cannot remove it easily, and it can have very deleterious effects by being present for prolonged periods at levels far higher than the body’s needs.
Of course, the nutritional supplement industry is a multi-billion dollar per year business. They have a vested interest in convincing people that more = better. Otherwise, we’d all be satisfied with good, wholesome food the way God and nature intended for us to eat.
I have two questions.
Question 1)How many people have died from a Vitamin D over dose?
Question 2) How many people have died from prescription drugs annually?
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No. I hadn't noticed. I'm glad they're there to point that out to us. We ignerint, unwashed masses might have not ever figured that out otherwise.
I take 3000 IU of Vitamin D3 daily, plus, 1600 IU Calcium. I was dx’d with Prostate cancer on 2007. Every Dr I have visited has recommended V-D3.
The last thing these geeks want id for the general public to become aware of how easy it is to control disease through proper life habits.
It would put them all in the poorhouse.
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This is one reason I totally distrust the medical establishment. I've seen with my own experiences that supplements are far more effective than drugs and without the side effects.
This article reinforces my opinion that most medical doctors are either brainwashed by the pharmaceutical industry and they're too lazy to do alternative research or they're part of the scam.
Since I've upped my intake of Vit D, I've not had a cold. Too bad for the medical profession, they'd rather write a presciption.
People would be healthier if they stayed away from doctors and drugs.
Yesterday's front page news in my local newspaper (Mobile Press-Register) was about a local doctor who said that 80% of her patients who she tested for vitaman 'D' had levels that were to low.
So....
The Institute of Medicine is funded essentially by Johnson & JOhnson, BIG PHARMA. BIG PHARMA doesn’t want you taking vitamins—they’d rather you take their products and really be sick!!! Always check the source of the information, and the source of funding for the information. And by the way, don’t be fooled when the funding is by a “Foundation” —