Vitamin D recommendations should reduce Rickets (but not much else)

European Food Safety Authority March 2016 posted draft for comment:

Scientific Opinion on Dietary Reference Values for vitamin D

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EFSA, proposes:

20 ng level and 600 IU intake (with ZERO for age 0 to 6 months)

20 nanograms is enough to deal with Rickets

    but 40+ nanograms is needed for other BONE and BODY health

Is 50 ng of vitamin D too high, just right, or not enough has the following summary chart

• Virtually all studes define 30 ng as sufficient

• Many experts say 40 ng is good

• Some experts say 50 ng is much better for disease prevention

• Some experts say 50 ng is too much

  • But some experts feel 50 ng is not enough to TREAT diseases

EFSA summarizes some current recomendations

ADULT

CHILD

PREGNANT/LACTATING

Virtually all recommendations fail to notice

• Some groups of people need substantially need more vitamin D
  • Obese/overweight
  • Poor health - especially poor gut, poor liver, poor kidney
  •     other forms of vitamin D oten work well
  • Live far from equator
  • Pregnant (need to eat for more than one)
  • Seniors     German seniors 10 pct less than 7ng, 92 pct less than 30 ng vitamin D – Jan 2012

• More vitamin D is needed for body health than for bone health

• Higher percentage of people are Vitamin D deficient every year

  • Yet most recomendations give equal weight to studies from the past 50 years
  •     3X more kids were vitamin D deficient when entering UK hospitals than 4 years before – Oct 2014
  •     Why are so many Victorian killer illnesses making a comeback - Nov 2012

Falls in Vitamin D Life

• EFSA failed to notice that they recommended 800 IUs in 2014
  • Reduce chance of falling with 800 IU of vitamin D - European Food Safety Authority - Nov 2014

• Overview Fractures and Falls and Vitamin D 800 IU is the very bare minimum amount

• Yet again, 800 IU of vitamin D was found to be barely enough to help bones – Lancet Oct 2013

• Bone fractures reduced by a minimum of 800 IU vitamin D and Calcium – meta-meta-analysis March 2014

• Half of seniors got NO response at all from 1600 IU of vitamin D

Europe in Vitamin D Life

• Vitamin D in Europe – status, policy, etc. – Jan 2015

• Vitamin D levels in Europe – Sept 2014

• Why the UK government ignores evidence for the benefits of Vitamin D - Nov 2013

Death due to low vitamin D in Vitamin D Life

• Let 1000 die from vitamin D deficiency rather than incur 1 lawsuit
  • Conclusions from looking at A look at inner workings of committee looking at vitamin D for UK - Dec 2012
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• Should people at high risk for vitamin D deficiency wait 5 years -Feb 2013
  • They may be trying for a risk/reward ratio of about 1 in 1,000
  • Note: The word Death occurs only twice in EFSA document
• Dr. Grant on vitamin D and mortality in Vitamin D Life

Pregnancy and Vitamin D in Vitamin D Life

Healthy pregnancies need lots of vitamin D has the following summary

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Bones problems in Vitamin D Life

• Turkey gave 400 IU vitamin D to all infants and reduced Rickets by 60X - 2011
  • yes, 400 IU does reduce rickets, but not much else

• Rickets can be suspected below 36 ng of vitamin D – Oct 2012 - not just 20 nanograms

• More calcium in bones in those teenage girls getting 2,000 IUs daily – RCT Jan 2016

See also Vitamin D Life

• Proof that Vitamin D Works 68 health problems PROVEN to be helped (Feb 2016)

• More than half of the top richest US lobbys are Health related all lobbyists are opposed to size reductions

  • American Medical Association, American Hospital Association, Big Pharma are 3 of the 6 biggest spending lobbiests in the US

• 21 reasons why doctors are reluctant to accept Vitamin D

• 1600 IU vitamin D was enough to get all (white, non-obese) elderly to 20 ng – RCT Dec 2012

• Huge decrease in many health problems with more than 20 ng of vitamin D - click on chart for details

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• Recommendations around the world - click on chart for details
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  • Note this is EFSA as of 2010. EFSA is proposing in 2016 to reduce the upper limit from 4,000 IU to 2000 IU
• Less sun ==> Less Vitamin D ==> Less Health - click on chart for details
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