Thu, 04 Oct 2007
Vitamin D: All guns blazing!
You may have notice my link on the right to the
provocative article
by Bill Sardi which gives some very specific details on
vitamin D deficiency caused by location and angle of the sun and the
effects of these two simple things on human health. The LEF now
also has a
cover article in their latest issue suggesting that
it might be a good idea for the President to declare a health emergency
and declare the great significance of vitamin D deficiency. I encourage
you to read both of these article.
If you remember the Vitamin D seminar around the first part of this year, Dr. Cannell mentioned that government agencies were encouraged to raise the level of both the RDI and max safe upper limit of Vitamin D. But to this day we have heard nothing along these lines. Some suggest that there is stalling taking place in order to give pharmaceutical companies more time to develop patentable analogs which could lead to bigger profits. I don't know if this is true. But I am beginning to wonder when the counter reports will start coming out. Meta studies that suggest harm or increased mortality. Perhaps we haven't reached critical mass yet where enough people are alerted to the issue and begin adjusting their supplement use by adding lots more vitamin D. Indeed, supplement manufacturers are still not providing products with more vitamin D. Multis still contain a measly 400 IU if at all. Since the safe upper limit is at 2k IU, that is the largest pill we will tend to see.
With fall nearly upon is, now is the time to order vitamin D. Make sure it is vitamin D3, not D2. The further north you live, the earlier you should start. Last winter, I took 4k every day. 2k in the morning and 2k at night. I don't know if this makes much difference (the timing that is) but in general, I think it's a good idea to try and spread out your supplements through the day.
How about some feed back? Are you persuaded by the information? Will you begin to supplement vitamin D in the fall and winter?
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