Overview Diabetes and vitamin D

Created June 2010

Diabetes: A risk factor is low vitamin D

90% less T2 Diabetes in the group having lots of Vitamin D

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See also: Type 2 Diabetes 2 X less likely if triple the vitamin D level (222,000 Danes) - Sept 2024

76% reduced risk of Diabetes if use small vitamin D doses - meta-analysis Feb 2023

  • Vitamin D and Risk for Type 2 Diabetes in People With Prediabetes -A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Individual Participant Data From 3 Randomized Clinical Trials https://doi.org/10.7326/M22-3018

    • only used 20,000 weekly or 4,000 IU daily

    • Need to treat 30 people to eliminate one person getting diabetes (NNT)

  • Dr. Campbell video review

  • Annals Video Summary of study - Vitamin D and Risk for Type 2 Diabetes in People With Prediabetes https://doi.org/10.7326/M22-3698 Feb 2023

  • Summary for Patients: Vitamin D and Risk for Type 2 Diabetes in People With Prediabetes 📄 PDF

  • Preventing Type 2 Diabetes With Vitamin D: Therapy Versus Supplementation Feb 2023 https://doi.org/10.7326/M23-0220

4,600 hits for Diabetes and "Vitamin D" in the title in Google Scholar

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  • The Impact of Vitamin D Deficiency and Insufficiency on the Outcome of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients: A Systematic Review - 2023 FREE PDF

  • Vitamin D deficiency and its associated factors among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and meta-analysis - Oct 2023 FREE PDF

  • An Overview of Systematic Reviews of the Role of Vitamin D on Inflammation in Patients with Diabetes and the Potentiality of Its Application on Diabetic Patients with COVID-19 - March 2022 FREE PDF

  • Protective Role of Vitamin D Therapy in Diabetes Mellitus Type II- Aug 2021 FREE PDF

  • Vitamin D in Diabetes: Uncovering the Sunshine Hormone’s Role in Glucose Metabolism and Beyond - April 2023 FREE PDF

  • Vitamin D Supplementation for Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: To D or Not to D? Dec 2020 FREE PDF

5 Reasons that medical professionals do not prescribe Vitamin D for Diabetes

  1. No profit for Big Pharma

  2. Less income for doctors or hospitals if stop diabetes

  3. The Vitamin D dose needed often varies by 4X between individuals for many health problems

    • Doctors prefer using a single dose of a drug for all patients
  4. Doctors are unaware that small doses of vitamin D gut-friendly can be used
    • Gut-Friendly Vitamin D is available on Amazon, but not in pharmacies, nor by prescription
    • they are uncomfortable prescribing 4,000+ IU of vitamin D
    • in many countries, doctors can only prescribe D2 (which does not work as well), not D3
  5. Doctors are unaware that adding Magnesium helps prevent/treat Diabetes
    • they often just want to use a monotherapy

Diabetes and Interventions

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7X increase in T2 Diabetes by 2060 in those under age 20 (mainly in blacks) - Jan 2023

TrialSite News     📄 PDF

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From Hypponen - 7X less diabetes for children taking 2,000 IU of vitamin D

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US military: 3.5 X more likely to get type I Diabetes if low vitamin D - 2014

from Video by Dr. Gorham Dec 2014

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Percentage change in age-adjusted prevalence of diagnosed diabetes among adults aged >18 years Nov 2012

Diabetes average by 82% (average) in just 15 years FONT}

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The figure above shows the percent change in age-adjusted prevalence of diagnosed diabetes among adults aged >18 years in the United States during 1995-2010.

During 1995-2010, the relative increase in age-adjusted prevalence of diabetes ranged from

  • 8.5% in Puerto Rico to

  • 225% in Oklahoma, with an

  • overall median increase of 82.2%.

The age-adjusted prevalence increased by >50% in 42 states and by >100% in 18 states.

States in the South had the largest relative increase in prevalence, with the age-adjusted median increasing >100%.

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  • "'If Diabetes Was A Country, It Would Be The Third Largest Country In The World" - Huffington Post- AU 2016?

  • |nsulin nearly tripled in cost from 2002 to 2013 New York Times Jan 2017

    • Lawsuit made Jan 30, 2017 against Sanofi, Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly. Insulin now costs up to $900/month

  • GreenMedInfo Nov 2017

    • "Diabetes just became the #3 killer in America and the #1 killer in Mexico"

    • "1 out of 2 Americans ALREADY have diabetes or pre-diabetes."

Diabetes is prevented and treated by Curcumin (which increases activation of the VDR)

BMI and Diabetes Washington Post Aug 2015

Interactive graphics. Black line = US, nothing about vitamin D

About 347 million adults in the world have diabetes, more than twice as many as in 1980.

Diabetes rates in adults since 1980, adjusted for age

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Prediabetes

33+ Vitamin D Life pages with PREDIABET in title

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Diabetes Types 3, 4, and 5

{FONT(size="16")} 📄 Diabetes type 3 (Alz), 4 without obesity

    ((Link between diabetes and Alzheimers is probably low vitamin D {FONT(size="16")} 📄 Diabetes type 5 (malnutrition) - official as of April 2025 **{FONT}

Diabetes complications (nothing about Vitamin D) - 2016* Briefly Discusses *Skin Complications, Eye complications, Neuropathy, Foot Complications

Ketoacidosis & Ketones, Kidney Disease (Nephropathy)

High Blood Pressure (Hypertension), Stroke

Hyperosmolar Hyperglycemic Nonketotic syndrome (HHNS)

Gastroparesis. Heart Diseases, Mental Health, Pregnancy* 📄 Download the PDF from Vitamin D Life *---

Finger blood sugar tests do not help unless using Insulin

Is the Finger-Stick Blood Test Necessary for Type 2 Diabetes Treatment? June 2017

  • "Blood glucose testing does not offer a significant advantage in blood sugar control or quality of life for patients with type 2 diabetes* who are not treated with insulin *, according to a study published online by JAMA Internal Medicine."

  • "In the MONITOR trial, 450 patients were assigned to no blood sugar monitoring, once daily glucose monitoring, or enhanced once-daily glucose monitoring with an internet-delivered tailored message of encouragement or instruction for 1 year."

  • "Results showed no significant differences in blood glucose control across the 3 groups. There were no significant differences in health-related quality of life or for hypoglycemia, hospitalizations, and emergency room visits."

  • "There was also no difference in the number of individuals who had to start using insulin treatment to better control blood glucose levels."

New type of Insulin (GMO) results in increased deaths - Aug 2017

GMO Insulin Increases Morbidity and Mortality in Type 2 Diabetics GreenMedInfo

The GMO forms have a different structure and 4X as much of GMO form is needed to get the same benefit

  • 1. of references at GreenMedInfo for other diabetic treatments: ginger (37), spirulina (38), and black cumin seed (39), nutraceuticals such as L-arginine (40), vitamin C (41),* magnesium (42), omega-3 fatty acids (43), and vitamin D *(43), and both high-intensity interval training (44) and aerobic exercise (45)

If diabetic and taking metformin you must check Vitamin B12 levels* Routine vitamin B12 screening may prevent irreversible nerve damage in type-2 diabetes *Nov 2018

Diabetic Epidemic

  • Step back to 1994. Suppose an epidemic struck the United States,* causing blindness, kidney failure, and leg amputations *in steadily increasing numbers.

    • Suppose that in less than a decade's time, the epidemic had victimized* one out of every eight people That epidemic is real, and its name is diabetes, now the nation's sixth leading cause of death **.

    * Chart from the web (2018?) * image

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Food more costly ==> more diabetes

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Spain 2018

Many Diabetic associations recognize plant-based diets - 2019* Plant-Based Diets Recognized by Diabetes Associations Dr. Greger *5 minute video and transcript

  • As Dr. Williams put it, the evidence “for the benefits of plant-based nutrition continues to mount.” “This now includes lower rates of stroke, hypertension, diabetes…, obesity, [heart attacks, and cardiac death], as well as many non-cardiac issues that affect our patients in cardiology, ranging from cancer to a variety of inflammatory conditions.”

  • "Reading the existing [scientific] literature and evaluating the impact of plant-based nutrition, it clearly represents the* single most important yet underutilized opportunity to reverse the pending obesity and diabetes-induced epidemic of disease and [death].” Updated Oct 2023 ** Dr. Kim Williams, the American College of Cardiology’s immediate past president, began an editorial on plant-based diets with a classic quote from Schopenhauer: “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”

  • In 2013, plant-based diets for diabetes were “ridiculed” and placed in the “Fad Diets” section of the official endocrinology practice guidelines despite acknowledgment that the eating pattern reduces diabetes risk and improves management better than the American Diabetes Association recommendation.

  • By 2015, the guidelines explicitly endorsed a plant-based diet as its general recommendation for diabetic patients, and, now, the American Diabetes Association itself is also on board.

  • The Canadian Diabetes Association has taken the lead by recommending plant-based diets—“a regimen that encourages whole, plant-based foods and discourages meats, dairy products, and eggs, as well as all refined and processed foods”—for disease management and also recommending Canadian diabetes education centers to develop educational materials and provide individualized counseling sessions to address obstacles to change in order to improve people’s perceptions of plant-based diets.

  • Ignorance may be the biggest barrier to eating plant-based. Nearly nine out of ten patients interviewed hadn’t heard of plant-based eating to treat or manage diabetes, despite most staff being aware of its benefits, yet only about one in three diabetes educators and clinicians recommending it to their patients.

  • Two common reasons given were that they didn’t mention it because they didn’t believe their patients would eat a plant-based diet and they were unclear about the supportive scientific evidence. However, the researchers cited studies in which vegan diets had a greater than 95 percent adherence rate, likely because the participants experienced significant improvements, and plant-based eating has been shown to be more effective than an ADA-recommended diet at reducing the use of diabetes medications, long-term blood sugar control, and cholesterol.

  • There is a delay in the dissemination of new scientific findings from the scientific literature to the clinician and finally to the patient, which is one of the reasons I started NutritionFacts.org.

  • The science on plant-based diets is clear, but the bigger challenge is overcoming the “inertia, culture, habit and widespread marketing of unhealthy foods,” says Dr. Williams. “Reading the existing literature and evaluating the impact of plant-based nutrition, it clearly represents the single most important yet underutilized opportunity to reverse the pending obesity and diabetes induced epidemic of morbidity and mortality.”

  • "...strictly plant-based diets were “well accepted with over 95 percent adherence rate,"

* Greger category listing has items **along with related searches

Diabetic problems: map of the body* Healthline *image

CDC US Diabetes maps 1994, 2015

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Testing for diabetes in US: start at age 35 if BMI >25 USPSTF - Aug 2021

US Preventive Services Task Force lowers diabetes screening age for overweight

American Diabetes Association and American Association of Clinical Endocrinology disagree

    - the age should be 45 years old. not 35

Each additional decade of T2 Diabetes reduces lifespan by 2.5 years - Oct 2023* MD Edge *---

Voice analysis determened persons having Type 2 diabetes with 71% accuracy - Oct 2024* Medscape ** Still gathering data: [www.colivevoice.org] *Proably many years until this becomes available as an online service

Dabetes is assocated with categories: Intervention 56, Pregnancy 43, Infant-Child 39, Obesity 34, Cardiovascular 33, Magnesium 27, Skin - Dark 24, Vitamin D Receptor 23, etc.** (as of Oct 2023)__ Intervention - non daily 22, Metabolic Syndrome 17, Hypertension 13, Virus 12, Genetics 12, Kidney 12, Depression 11, Omega-3 11, Cognitive 10, Autoimmune 9, Deficiency 9, Cancer 9, Loading dose 8, Mortality and D 8, Vision, 7, Rheumatoid Arthritis, 7, Multiple Sclerosis, 6, Lupus, 6, Immunity, 6, Injection, 6, Antibiotics, probiotics, 6, Middle East, 6, Youth, 5, Stroke, 5, Vitamin D and Vitamin K, 5, Vit D Binding Protein, 5, Thyroid and parathyroid, 4, Sports and Vitamin D, 4, Bone - Health, 4, Books, videos on Vitamin D, 4, Fortification with Vitamin D, 4, Pain - chronic, 4

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