Diabetes RCT we expect to fail just 50,000 IU monthly - July 2014

Study protocol: a randomised placebo-controlled clinical trial to study the effect of vitamin D supplementation on glycaemic control in type 2 Diabetes Mellitus SUNNY trial

50,000 IU Vitamin D3 monthly
only six months.

See also Vitamin D Life

• Diabetes prevention RCT kicked off: adding 4,000 IU vitamin D - Oct 2013 which would be 120,000 IU monthly
• Diabetes treated by 50,000 IU of vitamin D weekly with 1 g Calcium daily – RCT July 2014 which is 4X more than RCT on this page
• Diabetes not treated by MONTHLY 50,000 IU vitamin D (which is not quite enough) – May 2015
• Overview Diabetes and vitamin D contains the following summary
• Diabetes is 5X more frequent far from the equator
• Children getting 2,000 IU of vitamin D are 8X less likely to get Type 1 diabetes
• Obese people get less sun / Vitamin D - and also vitamin D gets lost in fat
• Sedentary people get less sun / Vitamin D
• Worldwide Diabetes increase has been concurrent with vitamin D decrease and air conditioning
• Elderly get 4X less vitamin D from the same amount of sun
      Elderly also spend less time outdoors and have more clothes on
• All items in category Diabetes and Vitamin D 454 items: both Type 1 and Type 2

Vitamin D appears to both prevent and treat diabetes

• Appears that >2,000 IU will Prevent
• Appears that >4,000 IU will Treat , but not cure
• Appears that Calcium and Magnesium are needed for both Prevention and Treatment
  • which are just some of the vitamin D cofactors

Number of articles in both categories of Diabetes and:

• Dark Skin 22;   Intervention 49;   Meta-analysis 28;   Obesity 26;  Pregnancy 39;   T1 (child) 34;  Omega-3 10;  Vitamin D Receptor 18;  Genetics 10;  Magnesium 18    Click here to see details