Epidemic of Vitamin D deficiency sweeping the world

Epidemic of Vitamin D deficiency sweeping the world

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Billions spent on decades of cancer research, yet no cure has been found. I love pharmaceutical conspiracies and I truly doubt that no cure exists like they pretend. Obviously, these cures are well hidden in the pharmaceutical' safes.

Being the number one killer, expensive medicines are most profitable. Keeping people ill and slowing down the process is more profitable than curing people with relatively cheap cures.

Even though I attempt to live relatively healthy, it is new to me that Vitamin D plays such a vital role in preventing cancer - 77% is extremely significant.





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[edit on 14-3-2010 by Mdv2]

hmm a bit confused because as far as I am aware most foods in the west are fortified with vitamin D......

isn't vitamin D also needed for protection from Ultra violet rays ?, The only reason i am aware of this is because i am light skinned and have ginger hair and am encouraged to take more vitamin D for skin protection .. Good find Mdv2

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hah, just move to somewhere near the equator...you couldn't get out of the sunlight if you tried

The human body makes Vitamin D when exposed to Sunlight.

So if your government is also pushing the Skin Cancer scare tactic so that you apply cream UV A&B blockers full of Aluminium (proper English spelling), cover yourself head to toe and stay in the shade then you are going to be deficient in your bodies production of Vitmain D.

You could supplement it or find natural foods that will assist, but I still think getting out in the sun for at least a few minutes each day is the best and most natural way of getting it.

Why Mainstream medicine thinks Sci-fi and Impractical "cancer cures" plus Chemoterapy, Radiation, and Surgery is "better" than Better alternative cancer cures that has been around from beginning of history?

how about Eastern People?

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people used to put their babies out in the morning sun for 15 mins a day. dont do it anymore. sick people also used to be left out in the morning sun for this amount of time each day. we used to know about vit d, but we've forgotten.

now with cancer paranoia, we're slathering our kids in sunscreens containig carcinogenic additives that are probbaly giving our kids skin and other cancers as well as making sure they get zero sun on thier skin. look for natural, safe sunscreens in your health shop.

also people sit in offices all day and never go outside as much as we used to.

Well, I don't know if it's the vitamin D, but I hardly EVER get sick. I ride public transportation, so there is a lot of potential for me to contract something from all the sneezing and coughing going on around me. This winter, after sleeping with the window open, I got a little scratchy stuff in my throat that lasted about 24 hours, while numerous people at work were coughing up their lungs. The last time I've had anything really nasty was...um.. 2004. Also, I'm 50 and take no prescription meds.

I take a multivitamin every day, plus extra vitamin D in the winter, and I eat REAL food every day. In the summer I am outside getting my daily dose of vitamin D.

Just eat a lot of fish and eggs!

Or you could just sit in the sun

I have M.S. and take one 50,000ui prescript vitamin D pill once a week. Since taking one a week I feel much better.

what do doctors tell u in a office visit???? nothing thats what. They never started testing people for this deficiency until just recently. I know cause I am D deficient. I had to ask my doctor to run a panel on me and turned out I was so deficient that I had to take a special pill so that it would correct it. Now I am on the main Vitamins that are realy good to take. I choose to buy the brand of vitamins that are in a soft gel so they go directly into your sytem. So I now take about 6 different kinds of vitamens daily. Keeping your ph balanced and imune system up is also a good idea.

Many people have become fearful of going outdoors without applying sunscreen. Many women's moisturizers and cosmetics contain sunscreen. The sunscreen reduces the amount of Vitamin D the body can make from sun exposure so people can end up Vitamin D deficient even if they're spending a good bit of time outdoors. Source.

My doctor wasn't aware of this. He suspected I was Vitamin D deficient a couple of years ago, tested me, and confirmed the deficiency. I took supplements and that increased my Vitamin D levels. So the following summer, my Vitamin D levels went down some. I forgot to take my supplements daily, but my doctor was surprised my levels went down considering I was outside in the sun quite a bit every day in the summertime.

So he increased my supplements. Since he was baffled why my Vitamin D levels would go so low after getting so much sun exposure, I decided to do some research. That's when I found out about how sunscreen can prevent the body from making Vitamin D.

So I stopped wearing sunscreen unless I had prolonged sun exposure, and that helped.

I thought wearing sunscreen all the time was good for me. After constantly hearing that it can reduce the chances of skin cancer, I started applying it before sun exposure. I had no idea it could cause Vitamin D deficiency, and neither did my doctor.

So I'm not surprised to learn so many people are Vitamin D deficient. Many of us have had it pounded into our heads to not go into the sun without sunscreen. I hope more doctors are becoming aware that many people are Vitamin D deficient so they can start testing their patients and hopefully reverse the situation.



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To be honest I stopped wearing sunscreen a while ago. I used to suffer from prickly heat when I was younger and found out that the sunscreen was blocking my pores preventing me from sweating. My father never wore sunscreen in his life, and he worked a job that constantly took him abroad and to hot climates. He never suffered any ill effects as a result of not wearing sunscreen. So this is now the route I adopt. Our body produces natural sun protection in the form of menalin (which also makes a tan!) so I prefer to trust nature instead of the money-grabbing pharma companies According to scientists my decision to do this has probably doubled my risk of skin cancer, but at least I won't be vitamin D deficient!

Yes, it is true, the deficiency of environment D or what we know as D-3 started when the manufactured business introduced the idea that the sun was harmful and will give you skin cancer so they can produce the "prevention" for it as sun blockers" and people fell for it.

Even I did, been from the Caribbean I have a natural sun kiss skin

But then again the once sun worshiping and loving US citizens started to get scare of the Sun rays and started to hide inside their homes and under sun blockers.

I got over it and started to worship the sun again.

Now the vitamin companies is turning the tables and telling that we all have deficiency of D-3 and we "need to take supplements" but it doesn't tell that you can get it free and plenty with just stepping into the sun in the early hours of the day and take a sun bath.

Well somebody has to make money one way or the other, right?

MDV2,
This is Bull ****, I am a nutrition educator one of my principle jobs is to educate children on how to get their vitamins, and where. Human beings make their own vitamin D when exposed to the sun. 15 minutes of sun exposure in a short sleeve shirt gives human ALL of the vitamin D we need for the day, its is created as we absorb the sun into our skin. Vitamin D is added to our milk products mainly for children, and started in the 1950's when scientists and doctors realized kids spent more time inside because of school, and thus were not exposed to enough sunlight, especially during the winter months. Vitamin D helps us absorb calcium thats all, and there are alot of other places we get it also.
This new study is just another way to add something extra to our foods, and raise the price- and are we sure its gonna be vitamin D and not something else more insidious?
Take it with a grain of salt and look it up- the info is out there.

As a kid I never drank packaged milk from the store, ours came straight out of the cow, and it wasn't pasturized either. Im healthy, have no deficiencies, no current diseases, and my bones are strong,. Its a load of BUNK.

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"Ultra-violet light from the sun transforms ergosterol on the skin into vitamin D which is in turn transferred from the skin into the bloodstream" KNOW YOUR NUTRITION by Linda Clark

What if the depleting ozone, and even sunscreen is preventing this process from occurring?
Cod liver oil used to be a cure-all and with good reason. Vitamins A& D.
Not too many people take a daily dose of cod liver oil these days. Vitamin D is found in smaller quantities in egg yolk and milk.

Symptoms of deficiency:
(same source)

paleness, fragile bones, soft teeth, arthritis, osteoporosis, insomnia, TB, sensitivity to pain, nearsightedness, muscle spasms, cramps, bronchitis, noseblee, restlessness, fast heart beat delayed healing. Similar to symptoms of vitamin A and calcium deficiency.

But you can overdose on D (although I am sure it is difficult even impossible unless you are taking many supplements) D is the only vitamin besides vitamin A that can be toxic when taken in too large doses. It is stored in the liver and accumulates. Symptoms of toxicity: (same source)
Nausea, loss of appetite, vomiting, cramps, tingling in fingers and toes, intense thirst, confusion, headaches, pain in jaw, hardening of the arteries(calcification) tender teeth, joints and muscles.

American journal of Clinical Nutrition says adults can benefit from 2,500 - 5000 IU vit D daily. In older people plagued with stress, illness and aging may take even more. 10,000 IU daily can cause toxicity in Vitamin D sensitive individuals and 50,000 IU may bring on toxicity to the rest.

There is no vitamin D1 in supplement forms (as of this writing)
Vitamin D2 is synthetic, known as calciferol and is made by irradiating ergosterol. Vitamin D3 is a natural form of Vitamin D.

Some people recommend large doses of Vitamin D but only twice a week since it is stored in the liver.

Interestingly only 400 IU Vitamin D were found to be safe on a daily basis for dogs. The author limits her D intake to this amount. Another doctor recommends cod liver oil capsules (which I am going to purchase after reading this thread and looking up info in my nutrition book -so thanks OP) be taken one a day to start (because they can cause "repeating") and gradually increase to 8 capsules daily.

i started taking vitamin D since last summer, i didn't get sick at all this winter, no flu, not even cold
now i'm adding some vitamin B complex and vitamin C every day
never felt better!

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Yes, of course. I was thinking "don't these people ever go outside?" lol.

Doctors generally say 10 minutes a week of direct exposure should do it, and most of us get that just going back and forth to our cars.

The health benefits outweigh the risk of overexposure.

Edit to add: Vitamin D is stored in the liver, and in the past it was "healthy" to eat the liver of an animal who lived in the sun. Such as cows. I once read there was enough V-D in the liver of a cow to last a human for about one month.

But now of course we are told not to eat the organs of animals due to fatty tissues and toxins.

Best go with sunlight and supplements, I suppose.

[edit on 3/14/2010 by ladyinwaiting]