Comments about ‘Vitamin D-deficiency crisis looms, researcher warns’

It has been my thinking for years that the hysteria over skin cancer would cause serious vitamin D deficiencies. I looks like maybe we need to reevaluate some positions on this issue. I guess those people with more skin pigment may be superior to some of the fair skinned people.

Actually this was shown in studies 4-5 years ago that because of the skin cancer scare people weren't making vit D naturally. Scary. Anyone know how much sun you need to get enough Vit D?

This makes perfect sense. Thank you for this simple, yet profound insight.

The article should have at least mentioned how much is needed. It must be more than you can get out of a few slices of bread or a glass of milk. Supplements are expensive to resort to, so the best alterneative is more outdoor work or leisure time in the sun. In the past 40 there have been so many scare studies come out that people are afraid of their own shadows. My best suggestion is forget studies and scare reports and avoid supplemental vitamin products and stick with natural foods and normal human behaviors. Save some money and turn off the air conditioners and go outside to cool off.

I have been ill and not been outdoors in over a year. As part of my illness my endocrinologist found I had a Vitamin D deficiency and prescribed a simple once-per-week supplement. An easy solution.

I was told no one is deficient in vitamin D. I've had weak muscles for years and vitamin D level was never checked. I started taking it a year ago blindly. I got the blood spot kit and result came back low and thats after taken it for a year. Im having to check it myself. Thats in the UK

I have been sick now with asthmatic brocistis and
have a very low number 8 count in vitiam d. I cannot
seem to get better is the low vitiam d the cause of
my bad health. Get B12 shots very three weeks but
does not seem to help feel very run down and tried
all the time.

1000iu/D3/daily for each 30lbs weight + 100iu/d for each remaining 3lbs.
or 20minutes naked at noon sun exposure. Each 5mins raises 1000iu. Don't burn.
At Wisconsin Dr Davis, Heartscanblog, finds women average 5000iu/d men 6000iu/d to make 60ng. search
"Disease Incidence Prevention by Serum 25(OH)D Level" for chart showing why 60ng is needed.
YouTube search "uctelevision grassrootshealth" for a series of videos from worlds leading vitamin d experts explaining connection between Vitamin D deficiency and cancer, heart disease, diabetes, melanoma, start with Heaney's talk on Vitamin d Deficiency.

Do consider a 25(OH)D test grassrootshealth.org D Action do them for $30.

What happen if you don,t get enoght viyamin d?

The researchers have got it exactly backwards. Low Vitamin D is an effect not a cause. And taking more will make it worse.

It's a immunomodulating hormone and a steroid people - Think about it. If your on it all ready - You will have to wean off it or get very ill. The body makes all it needs all by itself as nature has intended.

Mark sounds like quite the knowitall!!! Physician by chance?

Low Vitamin D is a symptom of a sedentary society. Very little Vitamin D is found in our diets, most of it is created in our skin using sunlight. Our bodies have no way to create what they need without the sun. Our ancestors spent most of their time outdoors as part of an agrarian or hunter gatherer society.
It takes 15-20 minutes in the sun at noon day to generate 20,000 IU, after that our skin moderates the production of Vitamin D. If this much occurs naturally, then I wouldn't be too concerned with following the advice of many concurrent researchers that the RDA be changed to 2000IU for adults.
Too much Vitamin D can be dangerous, especially if you have certain pre-existing conditions. It can thin the blood, and cause hypercalcemia. That said, it would probably require 10000 IU over a couple of years to be dangerous, depending on body weight etc.
D-Con, a popular mouse poison is called just that because its principal ingredient is Vitamin D.
It is always best to consult your Dr. before supplementing with Vitamin D, and be sure to monitor your blood levels over time.

Mark's comments are "interesting." He says the body makes vitamin D all by itself as nature intended. Yes, that's why babies are born fully dressed. That's why God invented sunscreen and built drug stores where we could buy it. That's why life began not at the equator, but at the North Pole. That's why the parathyroid glands secrete extra hormone if the vitamin d level is less than 32 ng. and this hormone dissolves the bone to keep the calcium level normal in the blood. It's good to dissolve out bones from the time we are children! That's why the incidence of osteoporosis is so high in men and women over 50. That's why giving 80 year old people vitamin D will reduce the incidence of fractures within 6 months, compared to placebo.That's why vitamin D deficiency causes hyperproliferation of cells.

Bob