When will it become a crime to fail to recommend or provide vitamin D

Will the criminals be pet owners, parents, doctors, or hospitals?

Doctors are slow to change for many reasons

Additional reasons to not recommend Vitamin D includes patents and Vitamin D2

However, benefits of vitamin D have been proven

(This was started as a Blog post Jan 8, 2012)

Will the criminals be pet owners, parents, doctors, or hospitals?

• Owners of pet monkey charged with cruelty by nor providing vitamin D Dec 2011
  • Quote: . . criminal malpractice not to recommend vitamin D
  • Quote: . . it is medical malpractice for obstetricians not to know what the Vitamin D level of their patients is

• Mother and father on trial for infant death – set free – death was due to rickets – Dec 2011

• BBC update Jan 24, 2012 found vitamin D deficiency associated with 30 infants deaths

• Perhaps in a region far from the Equator – such as Alaska   Or Scotland

• Many people stay too long in hospitals (and sometimes dies) due to lack of vitamin D

• Pregnancy ends in C-sections, low birth weight, fetal death, etc due to low vitamin D

  • Infants with low vitamin D have vastly increased asthma, diabetes, etc.
• Vets give about 3X vitamin D than the US govt recommends
  • Vets are rewarded when the patient is healthy, vs doctors are rewarded when the patient is sick

Doctors are slow to change for many reasons

• “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary is dependent upon his not understanding it”

  • Upton Sinclair

• Gynecologists may have the most to lose when patients have enough vitamin D

• Cancer doctors are a close second

• Doctors are wary of yet another vitamin which claims too much (A, B, C, E . . . )

• Doctors cannot charge for vitamin D tests in many countries such as Canada and insurance plans

• Medical professionals are often not aware of groups which are at high-risk of being vitamin D deficient, nor the causes

• Doctors who do not follow "accepted practice" (and more vitamin D is not yet accepted practice) open themselves up to mal-practice law suits.

Additional excuses that doctors have to not recommend Vitamin D

• Experts have been unable to agree on vitamin D levels: 30 ng, 50 ng, or what
  • While experts have been unable to agree, the US govt lowered the vitamin D level to 20 ng
• Many health applications of vitamin D have been patented
  • Examples: Reduce weight, reduce chemotherapy needed, reduce falls, reduce scars, improve fertility,
  •     treat heart disease, treat endometriosis, treat liver disease, treat type 1 diabetes, etc. etc.
• Often doctors can only prescribe vitamin D2
  • D2 has been proven many times to actually decrease blood levels and/or make the health condition worse
• Healthcare systems are typically rewarded for providing treatment, not prevention

However, a huge number of vitamin D trials and meta-analysis of trials have proven the great benefits of vitamin D

• All Meta-analysis items in Vitamin D Life 38 Meta-analysis as of Jan 2012
  • Note: Meta-analysis are analysis of the results of 10 to 30 Random Controlled Trials
  • As of Dec 2011 there were >700 Vitamin D intervention clinical trials - more than any other medical intervention.
• Overview Evidence for vitamin D

Many quotes on the web, such as

• Mercola Oct 2010
  • It is my impression that it is criminal malpractice not to recommend vitamin D and aggressively monitor a breast cancer patient's vitamin D level to get it between 70 and 100 ng/ml.
• March 2010
  • Dr. Hollis could not state this strongly enough. “I think it is medical malpractice for obstetricians not to know what the Vitamin D level of their patients is.”
• Vitamin D Council 2009
  • "As the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recently recommended that all pregnant women have a 25(OH)D blood test...
  • As the AAP recommendation came from an official medical body, to medical malpractice attorneys it represents evidence of a 'standard of care' for future lawsuits."