Several Diabetic pains reduced by injection of 300,000 IU of Vitamin D – RCT Feb 2020

Injection of 300,000 IU decreased several pain measures 12 weeks later

Poor guts need different forms of vitamin D - or injection

Guesses of Vitamin D response if poor gut

10= best bioavailable, 0 = worst, guesses have a range of +-2
Speed: Fast ~2-6 hours, Slow ~10-30 hours
Duration: Long ~3-6 months, Normal = ~2 months

Injection contains the following

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• Vitamin D injections last longer (3 month vs 2 month) than loading doses
• Getting Vitamin D into your body shows the many ways of getting Vitamin D

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• Injections are currently made by medical professionals into muscle
• Home injection of Vitamin D appears to be possible in the future
• Injections are useful for people who might forget to take their periodic supplement (children, elderly, etc) and those who cannot swallow or have poor digestion
• While Vitamin D2 is historically the common form, Vitamin D3 is far better
• Should check (if there is time) for possible allergic reaction to Vitamin D or lack of Magnesium for both for loading dose and injection
• Note 600,000 IU Vitamin D loading dose via capsules is 1/20th the cost($2.40) of an injection, and does not require a prescription
• 100,000 IU single dose of vitamin D - 2010 has the following
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• Vitamin D injection lasts longer and has bigger response than weekly oral – Jan 2017 has the following
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Pain - chronic category has the following

See also

• Overview Pain and Vitamin D
• Overview Fibromyalgia or Chronic Fatigue and vitamin D
• Overview Rheumatoid Arthritis and vitamin D
• Shingles and vitamin D
• Shin splints decrease with vitamin D
• Migraine and Vitamin D
• Headache category 63 items
• "musculoskeletal pain" 374 items as of March 2018
• "chronic fatigue" 185 items as of Jan 2017
• Category Back Pain 37 items
• "KNEE PAIN" 121 items as of March 2018

Overview Diabetes and vitamin D contains the following

• Diabetes is 5X more frequent far from the equator
• Children getting 2,000 IU of vitamin D are 8X less likely to get Type 1 diabetes
• Obese people get less sun / Vitamin D - and also vitamin D gets lost in fat
• Sedentary people get less sun / Vitamin D
• Worldwide Diabetes increase has been concurrent with vitamin D decrease and air conditioning
• Elderly get 4X less vitamin D from the same amount of sun
      Elderly also spend less time outdoors and have more clothes on
• All items in category Diabetes and Vitamin D 454 items: both Type 1 and Type 2

Vitamin D appears to both prevent and treat diabetes

• Appears that >2,000 IU will Prevent
• Appears that >4,000 IU will Treat , but not cure
• Appears that Calcium and Magnesium are needed for both Prevention and Treatment
  • which are just some of the vitamin D cofactors

Number of articles in both categories of Diabetes and:

• Dark Skin 22;   Intervention 49;   Meta-analysis 28;   Obesity 26;  Pregnancy 39;   T1 (child) 34;  Omega-3 10;  Vitamin D Receptor 18;  Genetics 10;  Magnesium 18    Click here to see details

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?)