"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary is dependent upon his not understanding it”
10th reason in Why are doctors reluctant to accept vitamin D
Does Less Sun mean More Disease 5 minute video
- Note: in 2012 one doctor reduced patient visits from 4 per year to 1 per year by getting all patients to have a high level of vitamin D
- Result of vitamin D: Lost too much business and retired early.
Proof that Vitamin D Works 78 PROOFS as of Feb 2017
Note: Many recent trials are not randomized - researchers appear to not want to condem a portion of the trial subjects to low vitamin D
When doctors will also decide that many people need vitamin D?
Less sun ==> Less Vitamin D ==> Less Health
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INTERVENTION: Give Vitamin D to some people and see what happens
639 Intervention studies Sorted by disease prevented and/or treatedMeta-analysis of the Vitamin D Clinical Trials 480 items
Vitamin D Life is focusing on those who profit from vitamin D (rather than on those who lose)
Goal of Vitamin D Life - Improve Global Health
Health Maintenance Organizations have a failry fixed annual income per participant
For HMOS: More Vitamin D ==> Less cost ==> More profit
Healthy pregnancies need lots of vitamin D summarizes the increases in health with vitamin D
Problem | Reduces | Evidence |
| 0. Chance of not conceiving | 3.4 times | Observe |
| 1. Miscarriage | 2.5 times | Observe |
| 2. Pre-eclampsia | 3.6 times | RCT |
| 3. Gestational Diabetes | 3 times | RCT |
| 4. Good 2nd trimester sleep quality | 3.5 times | Observe |
| 5. Premature birth | 2 times | RCT |
| 6. C-section - unplanned | 1.6 times | Observe |
| Stillbirth - OMEGA-3 | 4 times | RCT - Omega-3 |
| 7. Depression AFTER pregnancy | 1.4 times | RCT |
| 8. Small for Gestational Age | 1.6 times | meta-analysis |
| 9. Infant height, weight, head size within normal limits | RCT | |
| 10. Childhood Wheezing | 1.3 times | RCT |
| 11. Additional child is Autistic | 4 times | Intervention |
| 12.Young adult Multiple Sclerosis | 1.9 times | Observe |
| 13. Preeclampsia in young adult | 3.5 times | RCT |
| 14. Good motor skills @ age 3 | 1.4 times | Observe |
| 15. Childhood Mite allergy | 5 times | RCT |
| 16. Childhood Respiratory Tract visits | 2.5 times | RCT |
RCT = Randomized Controlled Trial
See also Vitamin D Life
- Vitamin D deficiency again associated with higher cost of health care – April 2015
- Save 2 billion dollars annually in fractures if take Vitamin D and Calcium – Frost and Sullivan Sept 2013
- UK would save as least 636 million dollars annually by giving 800 IU vitamin D free to all seniors – June 2014
- Getting Vitamin D into your body
Many ways include: +sun, supplement, fortify (including home fortification), injection,
Many types: topical, spray, powder, some herbs, - Vitamin D levels increasing 7 percent per year, bones denser in Japan (probably supplementation) - June 2015
- 20X increase in vitamin D sold and 36 percent decrease in osteoporosis business in Australia – Nov 2013
Australians are getting more vitamin D (typically without Dr. recommendation) ==> 36% less osteoporosis
A little story about Australians and increased vitamin D levels
For decades Australians had been told that sunshine was deadly.
They avoided the sun, and some even used sunscreen 24 hours a day, during all seasons.
Then they noticed a big increase in a great many diseases.
The public thought that these increases might be due to low vitamin D from lack of sun.
The doctors said no, could not be, and the government would not even allow selling capsules containing more than 1000 IU
The public asked for vitamin D tests (about a 100X increase in 11 years)
The government then refused to pay for any more (unnecessary) vitamin D tests.
That did not stop the public - they took matter into their own hands.
Slight increase in Vitamin D levels (entire country increased vitamin D by 20X in a decade)
While the rest of the world had DECREASING levels of vitamin D