Yeah,,,and vitamin C deficiency doesn't cause health problems, bad health causes vitamin c deficiency. I knew it was just a matter of time before Big Pharma/Big Drugs started targeting Vitamin D3 supplements. There isn't a vitamin or mineral supplement they don't want to make illegal. The BBC article says the Lancet study said there is no need for more studies as they won't contradict their study.
C’mon
Why would they want us to take care of ourselves and to not be on our way out?
Were they smart enough this time to say whether they studied Vitamin D3???? Or just the ubiquitous Vitamin “D”? Sheesh...I am getting sick of this.
Researchers...
Some of these revelations make me picture two guys in three week old yellow underwear, with hot dog skewers and marshmallows in their living room, with a tape drive TRS-80 and a black and white monitor with hacked up food on it.
For every research study out there, there a ten others that will point to diametrically opposed conclusions.
I don’t know about others, but for me daily exercise for 25 minutes on treadmill helps like crazy to keep my BP in check, my glucose in check, and my heart works better. I take no supplements on regular basis. May be a vitamin pill once a week is all. But I eat lots of fruits and veggies.
A, D, and K2 interact in complicated ways - supplementing with one when you're not getting enough of the others can make things worse.
All hail Big Pharma .....
I won’t put liberal politics past this. Vitamin D instantly explains the significantly shorter life expectancies that people of African descent have in northern latitudes—but it’s much easier to blame it all on “racism”.
From a biological sense, it does not make any sense whatsoever to take supplements. We evolved eating an omnivorous diet, which remains the diet most suited for our health. In the case of vitamin D, we evolved to make it ourselves in exactly the quantity we need. Unless a specific nutrient is lacking—such as iodine for people who do not have a supply of ocean fish—we should not have to take any supplements.
The effects of chronically overloading one’s body with excess quantities of micronutrients are only now being seriously studied. So far, it looks like this practice has some deleterious health effects.
No one would seriously suggest that one should load up their body with macronutrients (fats, sugars, and proteins). Yet, when it comes to micronutrients, some people eat them like candy. I guess that part of the reason is that we can easily see the effects of gorging on macronutrients—obesity—but the damage caused by gorging on micronutrients is more subtle.
Meanwhile, the Daily Mail reports widespread Vitamin D deficiency amongst British children, whose mothers have been cutting down on sausages and fish, and slather them with sunscreen on those occasions when they are allowed to play outside under the overcast British sky.
I take a multi-vitamin, Glucosimine-Condroitin, Vitamin D3, saw palmetto, 25 mg of DHEA, a supplement for hair and skin, and, one asperin a day.
I’m almost 61 and in great health. Don’t need a little blue pill do get the job done, either.
They do not like our vitamin D. They do not like our expensive pee....
“...the study authors reviewed more than 40 previous trials...”
These AssHats did not do a study. They ran previous trials through their statistical $hit and came to the conclusions stated. Well, good for them. Time to do that re the Pharmaceutical trials that the FDA uses to justify approval of all the Big Pharma Drugs that kill people.
D3 has extrodinary benefits to the human body. There is proof of that from legitimate studies. D3 is one of the more important supplements available to us. 10,000 units a day is not too much.
Just tell these misfit researchers where to go...and btw, it is very warm there.
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It’s not Big Pharma doing this. Who do you think makes the D3 supplements?
I seem to benefit greatly from vitamin D.
I don’t believe it. I’ll continue to take 10k IUs per day.
snort... Before I started taking D3, my Irish-ancestry skin turned lobster-red after 15 minutes in the garden, and I live at the top of the ID Panhandle (for over 5years now). A vampire burns slower than I did. Now, I am out all day, in a cut-off tank and a pair shorts, digging away all day without any burning.
Never has flu shot. I know what is in them. No way, ever. Same goes for my daughter and my grandsons. They had a day of flu last week. The rest of their friends who are part of the flu shot-kool-aid crowd, all were down for over two weeks.
Debbi
If vitamins don’t work...why do doctors prescribe Occuvite to patients? It is a vitamin supplement that helps with vision.
You can bet they are going after D3 because of its benefits
