[Koala77]

This USA article was posted in one of our main newspapers yesterday:

Insufficient intake of vitamin D, long known to play a key role in bone health, may significantly increase a person's risk of stroke, heart disease and even death, a US study said.

Examining 27,686 Utah patients aged 50 or older with no history of cardiovascular disease, the study found those with very low vitamin D levels were 77 per cent more likely to die early than those with normal levels.........

Read more here: http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news...1117-ij2e.html

I've posted this FYI only with this rider:

....because the study was only observational, definitive links between vitamin D deficiency and heart disease could not be established....

It's food for thought just the same.

[MelodyL]

Originally Posted by Koala77

This USA article was posted in one of our main newspapers yesterday:



Read more here: http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news...1117-ij2e.html

I've posted this FYI only with this rider:


It's food for thought just the same.

Hi. Alan just came home from his visit with Dr. Fred. He had a blood test last week. I had told him 'get your Vitamin D Level".

It's 27.

Now I'm not saying this is why he has Peripheral Neuropathy. But 27 is not normal.

His doctor told him to take 400 a day. I showed him what I take (1000) and I said "you start taking two of those 400 a day".

Don't know what this means, but the guy never goes in the sun so 800 a day can't possibly hurt him.

We shall see.

Melody

[mrsD]

Not enough.

Your target should be over 50. ( and some think closer to 80)

400IU is the current RDA which is about 10 times too low.

http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/

Why bother testing if the doctor gives a poor recommendation?

Begin taking vitamin D at least eight weeks prior to being tested. This will help you customize your dose once you receive your test results. To determine a basic, starting dose, it has been suggested, as per Dr. John Cannell of the Vitamin D Council (7), that you take 1,000 IU per 25 pounds of body weight. A person who weighs 150 pounds, for instance, would take 6,000 IU per day as a starting dose (150/25 = 6. 1,000 x 6 = 6,000). Do this for at least eight weeks, and then test. Perhaps this dose will put you in the ideal range, but there`s no guarantee since we are all so different, and have unique vitamin D receptor genotypes. The idea is to hopefully get somewhere in the ballpark with this method and then tweak your daily dose once the test results come back. If your results are still suboptimal, Dr. Cannell has estimated that each 1,000 IU increase in supplemental vitamin D will generally produce a 10 ng/ml increase in the vitamin D blood level (8). For example, if you have been taking 5,000 IU per day for 8+ weeks, and your results come back at 40 ng/ml, you would want to increase your dose to at least 7,000 IU (2,000 IU = ~20 ng/ml rise in blood level) to achieve a minimum of 60 ng/ml. Again, keep in mind that this is necessarily generalized, and additional blood testing every several months is recommended to further customize the dose appropriate to you.

from http://www.naturalnews.com/027345_Vi...ure_blood.html

This is similar to the B12 problems we see on this forum every day. Testing... using a low cutoff point.
Then giving a shot once a month--or saying 190 B12 is normal. Its totally Ineffective.

Knowing what Alan's test result is, you can decide how much to take, and get retested.

[mrsD]

Here is a new study, showing that higher levels of Vit D in elderly men resulted in a lower incidience of non-melanoma skin cancer:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19921445