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To: Future Useless Eater
-vitamin D does MUCH more than just help keep calcium in our bones...

Eh. It doesn't even do that.
Vitamin D and Calcium from US Dept of HHS

or A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Vitamin D Supplementation upon Musculoskeletal Health in Postmenarchal Females. "Despite improvements in 25(OH)D status, treatment with vitamin D2 was not shown to increase mineral accretion, bone geometry or strength, muscle force, or power. "

And as a single point, I've been quite D-deficient (<10) for 6 years, and my bone density is sharply up, not down.

And the folks who take it and think they no longer have colds need to worry about whether or not the lack of symptoms just means they've just totally suppressed the immune response to the common cold. Reversing Bacteria-Induced Vitamin D Receptor Dysfunction to Treat Chronic Disease: Why Vitamin D Supplementation Can Be Immunosuppressive, Potentially Leading to Pathogen Increase

64 posted on 12/01/2010 7:54:18 AM PST by slowhandluke (It's hard to be cynical enough in this age.)
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To: slowhandluke

Vitamin D2 is useless


75 posted on 12/01/2010 9:36:21 AM PST by goodnesswins (You deciding how to spend your health care $, thatÂ’s freedom. Govt deciding, thats a death panel)
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To: slowhandluke

The medical scammers always run their “studies” with useless synthetic vitamins, even though they know better.

A healthy population will bankrupt the scammers.


83 posted on 12/01/2010 9:57:47 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Obamacare is America's kristallnacht !!)
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