Re: Fwd: [herb] vitamin d council critique of latest Vitamin D recommendations

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Thanks Zoe

That is really helpful,

Best wishes

Fiona

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> The latest on VItamin D from Bergner from NAIMH.

> Zoe

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>> > From: Bergner <bergnerp@... <mailto:bergnerp%40gmail.com> >

>> > Date: 3 December 2010 16:25:55 GMT

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>> > Subject: [herb] vitamin d council critique of latest Vitamin D

>> > recommendations

>> > Reply-To: Herb <herb@... <mailto:herb%40lists.ibiblio.org> >

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>> > I have previously observed that if all North Americans took 4000-10000

>> > IU of vitamin D per day, It would eliminate or greatly reduce the need

>> > for about 8 categories of drugs, and especially radically alter the

>> > field of oncology. It could also greatly reduce hospitalizations.

>> > Last month I spoke with a family practice physician in Texas who began

>> > ordering vitamin D tests on all her patients. She only found 2 out of

>> > about 300 with normal levels (note that " normal " is not a lab normal,

>> > and is about 1/2 of what a human pursuing their occupation with

>> > noontime sun exposure has). She began giving the previous upper safe

>> > limit of 2000IU, but had trouble getting patients into the normal

>> > level even with that. So she read up more on the literature and

>> > started giving most of her patients 4000-5000IU. She said that at the

>> > end of 18 months or so, her hospitalization rate for all causes had

>> > declined by 75%.

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>> > Routine supplementation with D, or exposure to noontime sun without

>> > sunblock when the sun is higher than 45 degrees in the sky could

>> > literally " bring down the machine " of the medical establishment.

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>> > Perhaps that has something to do with why the Food and Nutrition Board

>> > ignored the recommendations of all 14 testifying vitamin D experts

>> > when they issued their latest recommendations. the only ray of light

>> > is that they raised the official " upper safe limit " to 4000IU/day.

>> > Even this, though helpful for many people, is not sufficient for many

>> > catagories of patients, including the obese or pregnant or lactating

>> > moms, per published research. See:

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>> > http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/vdc-statement-fnb-vitamin-d-

>> > report.shtml

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[Guest guest]

Thanks so much for the Vit D dosage information. This has confounded me for

quite some time.

Deborah McDonnell, MCPP, MNIMH

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