News Release of Conference

Bone Density decreases with age

Prevalence in CHILDREN

Increasing number of hip replacements in a decade

Standard Osteo treatments do not yet include vitamin D

2X more Osteoporosis than in ancient Eqypt

See PDF attached at bottom of this page

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See also Vitamin D Life

• Overview Osteoporosis and vitamin D
• All items in category Bone - Osteoporosis 89 items Oct 2011
• All items in category Bone Health 88 items Oct 2011
• Lowest cost osteoporosis treatment in China was vitamin D and Calcium – Oct 2010
• Evidence-based Review of Vitamin D -2010 Osteoporosis Grade = B
• Cochrane review finds that Vitamin D helps treat Osteoporosis – Feb 2010
• 2000 to 3000 IU required to start to help with Osteoporosis – June 2010
• International Osteoporosis Foundation: Vitamin D is the first of three ways to make unbreakable bones – Oct 2011
• Do not just take more Calcium if you fear Osteoporosis- Mercola Dec 2010 from book: The Calcium Lie
• Is it ethical to not give vitamin D in osteoporosis trials– NEJM Sept 2010
• National Osteoporosis Foundation on Vitamin D - more than 30 ng - 2010
• Osteoporosis medicines - several include vitamin D from National Osteoporosis Foundation
• Vitamin D recommendations by Osteoporosis Canada - Sept 2010 800-2000 IU daily, 10,000 IU is probably safe
• Review of vitamin D pathways to bone health - July 2010 with many summaries of vitamin D INTERVENTIONS
• Prefer more than 30 ng of Vitamin D and 700 mg Calcium for Osteoporosis – Mar 2011
• Low vitamin D before orthopedic surgery – dark skin 5X more likely – Oct 2010
  • suspect not just dark skin, but those also at risk of being low on vitamin D: sunlight, elderly, medical problems, etc.
• Would there be fewer stress and bone fractures with vitamin D?
• 4000 IU Vitamin D intervention helped elderly bones – March 2010
• 890 IU of vitamin D and 1200 mg Calcium improved bone density – July 2010
• Both Calcium AND vitamin D needed to prevent elderly fractures – Sept 2010
• Calcium and just 900 IU of vitamin D can improve Bone Density – July 2010
• 400 IU of Vitamin D Magnesium and Calcium helped Twin bones – Feb 2011
  • 400 IU is the least amount of vitamin D - wonder how low of vitamin D needed if take all of the co-factors
• Hip fractures in India - editorial with recommendation Sept 2010
• 75 percent of hip fractures associated with vitamin D deficiency - Jan 2011
• Low vitamin D may account for half of the reasons for osteomalacia – Oct 2010
• Calcium citrate and more than 800 IU of vitamin D to treat Osteoporosis – Mar 2011
• 1800 to 4000 IU vitamin D to get 30 to-44 ng no risk osteo - July 2010.pdf file
• Excessive clothes and being indoors results in very low vitamin D levels – Nov 2011
• All items in category Deficiency of Vitamin D 175 items as of Oct 2011
• Jordanian women vitamin D – 16 ng if Westen Dress – 12 ng otherwise – Aug 2011
• 23 ng of vitamin D in sunny Israel – Dec 2010
• Ultra-orthodox jews also suffer from 10 ng vitamin D levels – Nov 2010 clothing restricts access to the sun
• Arab pre-term infants often have less than 10 ng of vitamin D - 2010 also a very sunny climate
• Even in Sunny Areas, Vitamin D Intake Often Too Low - May 2010
• Less than 4 ng is more common in Saudis than diabetic Saudis – July 2010
• Red Alert – one in three pre-teens in Tehran had less than 5 ng of vitamin D – Feb 2011
• Iranian vitamin D levels 13 ng summer, 12 ng winter – June 2011
• Need to avoid the sun during the summer in Dubai
• Many reasons why vitamin D deficiency has become epidemic
  • # 2 was indoors, # 16 was clothing as of Oct 2011
• Review of Vitamin D Deficiencies in developing countries - Oct 2011
• Hypothesis – China air conditioning disease is the result of less vitamin D – March 2011
• Diabetes rising quickly in areas with recent air conditioning – June 2011
• Parkinson disease increased in Israel by 50 percent in 7 years – June 2011
• Red Alert – one in three pre-teens in Tehran had less than 5 ng of vitamin D – Feb 2011
• Iranian vitamin D levels 13 ng summer, 12 ng winter – June 2011
• Vitamin D in blood is higher in winter than summer – in Middle-East Sept 2011
• Military in hot climates and vitamin D deficiency - 2010