Does it benefits Drs not to use preventative nutrients.....?
Will keep out dosages where they are! Certainly has helped and even the personal Drs have noticed the positive change.
If your medical grant gig involves vitamin D, I suppose eventually you’ve got to ‘find’ something different than everyone else or there’s little reason for them to fund your next grant.
I totally agree on the need to supplement with vitamin D3. Some things I have learned on the subject...
-If you have low blood levels of D you will be sick often, plus risk heart disease and cancer
-Conversely, if you know how to keep your blood levels of D up to summertime levels you should stay very healthy.
-most people who are sick are VERY low in D, even more true the older you get.
-vitamin D does MUCH more than just help keep calcium in our bones...
Among other things, it punches holes in the lipid (fat coating) of viruses, and makes them then vulnerable to destruction by your own immune system.
-vitamin D also acts like a librarian. It helps our cells access their dna library to lookup how to defeat various infections and viruses.
-most adults would do well with 4000 or 5000 IU per day in the winter, however everyone is different, so at first, study, and guess, then after 2 months pay for a blood test to see how you are doing.
If you succeeded in getting your blood "D" levels up to normal summertime levels, you've found the right doseage for you.
-you should take ONLY gel caps, since D requires fat to be absorbed, otherwise it goes mostly down the toilet.
-you should avoid getting your D from Cod LIver Oil. The reason is that C.L.O also contains large amounts of a dangerous form of vitamin A called Retinol. THat is the activated form, and it overwhelms your system and depresses the useability of the vitamin D in your system.
Vitamin A is safe if taken in the beta-carotene form. Vitamin A is rarely as critically low as D.
-D3 can help reverse calcified (hardened) arteries. -Another fat-soluble vitamin that may be even better at that is vitamin K2
(see vitaminK2.org and go to "scientific presentations" to watch their video)
If you have ANY osteoporosis in your family WATCH THOSE videos!
-the vitamin D called D3 (cholocalciferol) is good. D2 (ergocalciferol is junk). They add D2 to milk. and the prescription vitamin D pills are usually D2.
-Avoid "Nature Made" brand of Vitamin D. It has been repeatedly shown to be worthless.
http://heartscanblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/is-it-or-isnt-it-vitamin-d.html
-As we age, our bodies get worse and worse at converting the sun to vitamin D
-(this one is uniquely my OWN opinion) due our body's loss of sun-conversion ability as we age, our livers recognize our dangerously low levels of D, and work overtime to MANUFACTURE more cholesterol.
The reason our livers do that is because cholesterol is needed to manufacture D, and by making more cholesterol, and pumping it out to our skin, the body hopes to cause more sun-conversion.
-most people on statins don't need them. Vitamin D does an even better job.
-unless you are a man, and under 50, AND have had a heart attack already, statistically you will live longer by REFUSING your pill-pusher-doctor's advice to take a statin.
-Statins somehow boost our D levels slightly. Much cheaper to just take it yourself and avoid the side effects
-Statins also mimic the very cheap amino acid L-arginine. Taking the later, is safer and more effective
-best source for toxicity info or general vitamin D info is at http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/news.shtml
-And Don't believe all 'they' tell you about high cholesterol being bad.
--The TOTAL cholesterol number is nearly worthless.
--HDL is good, (and eating MORE MEAT and LESS BREAD will raise that.)
--LDL they say is bad, but that is decieving.
--It is really SMALL DENSE LDL (sLDL) that is dangerous.
--A different type of LDL is LARGE FLUFFY LDL, and that is harmless.
--Guess what you get LOTS of if you eat lots of GRAINS? It will be mostly the dangerous sLDL.
--GUess what you get LOTS of if you avoid grains and eat lots of tasty animals? Yes, mostly safe fluffy LDL,
-There are new studies being pushed now that say that more than 'just a little' Vitamin D can be dangerous and increases certain cancer risks.
Those studies have the same flaw. The countries in the northern latitudes like FINLAND, that get their vitamin D from Cod Liver or Cod Liver oil, are damaging their VItamin D blood levels because of the dangerous Retinol that is also in that Cod Liver Oil.
-These studies seem to be paid-for by the statin industry, since they are so glaringly bad and obvious.
Here is a rebuttal: What the Institute of Medicine SHOULD have said