Re:Correcting a vitamin D deficiency

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i heard from other holistic doctors that never take more than 2000 as the body

cannot discard extra of it as it does vit c and you will have problems later as

it builds ?

 

 

 

--- On Fri, 12/5/08, Mark Fletcher < wrote:

Mark Fletcher <

<< >> Re:Correcting a vitamin D deficiency

 

Friday, December 5, 2008, 12:53 PM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marji,

 

 

 

Some fascinating info there. I've decided to take 4000 to 5000 IU a

 

day until I reach 60 ng/dl.

 

 

 

Mark

 

 

 

Alternative- Medicine- Forum@ s.com, marjij wrote:

 

>

 

> Yesterday I attended a major Vitamin D conference at UCSD in San

 

Diego. All

 

> the big guns were there... the doctors and researchers from

 

around the

 

> country who do the actual research and trials. Holistic doctors

 

were there, MD's,

 

> chiropracters, osteopaths, cardiologists, pediatricians, even

 

> dermatologists, and many more.

 

>

 

> The information they gave was astounding. Much of it is on this

 

website:

 

> _www.vitamindhealth .org_ (http://www.vitamind health.org) . This

 

is the

 

> website of Dr. Michael Horlick, one of the major investigators who

 

has written many

 

> books on this subject, and who gave a terrific presentation of

 

the findings

 

> about the epidemic deficiency of vitamin D in this country. How

 

sunscreen has

 

> been terribly destructive to our health... it interferes with the

 

absorption

 

> of UVB rays which are what make vitamin D in the skin, it allows

 

UVA to get

 

> through to the skin, but blocks UVB which is just backward from

 

what you

 

> want. To date there have been no randomized trials by the FDA or

 

sunscreen

 

> manufacturers to show that sunscreen protects against melanoma.

 

They simply can't

 

> show that it does.

 

>

 

> The atmosphere also prevents UVB from getting through to make

 

vitamin D even

 

> if you are outside. The UVB band is very narrow compared to the

 

UVA band,

 

> so much more UVA gets through. If the sky is overcast, no UVB.

 

If you are

 

> behind glass, no UVB. If those mysterious lines in the sky...

 

chemtrails we

 

> call them, have been dumped and spread out to reduce global

 

warming... they

 

> filter out the UVB healthful rays.

 

>

 

> Amazingly, Australia and New Zealand have the highest rate of

 

melanoma than

 

> anywhere in the world. And they have the highest ozone layers...

 

which is

 

> again, backward from what we would think. The ozone layer is

 

thick and filters

 

> out the UVB. High lattitudes as well in the northern latitudes,

 

Norway,

 

> Finland, Canada, even American north states above 40 degrees

 

latitude... above

 

> San Francisco... have high rates of melanoma, from not getting

 

ENOUGH sun. It

 

> may feel hot on your skin, and you may even burn, but that's from

 

the UVA

 

> rays, not the UVB's which are more fragile and need to penetrate

 

deeper into

 

> the derma to make the vitamin D. And furthermore, get this, most

 

melanoma does

 

> not occur even on the parts of the body that are exposed to the

 

sun. People

 

> who have indoor jobs and rarely go outside get melanoma... on

 

legs, trunk,

 

> even armpits!

 

>

 

> Vitamin D supplements defeat diabetes, cancer, pancreatic,

 

ovarian, breast,

 

> prostate... high blood pressure, athrosclerosis, heart disease,

 

inflammation,

 

> C-Reactive Protein (a cardiovascular disease marker), vascular

 

stiffness,

 

> blood clots, muscle tissue, stomach disfunction, arthritis,

 

everything in your

 

> body needs Vitamin D.

 

>

 

> If the evolutionists are right, we started out in the sea. That

 

is where

 

> Vitamin D3 comes from, phytoplankton. It does not grow on land.

 

When we

 

> crawled out of the sea we got our Vitamin D from the sun. There

 

are no plants

 

> that contain Vitamin D3, except in the ocean. Milk has it

 

added. Only in cod

 

> fish oil, or oily fish such as tuna or salmon can you buy it in

 

cans. Those

 

> fish ate the plankton. Farmed salmon does not contain it...

 

those fish eat

 

> junkfood the fish farmers toss to it. Farmed fish doesn't

 

contain much of

 

> anything good anyway. But their pretty red color is appetizing,

 

until you

 

> realize it's from red dye tossed into the food too.

 

>

 

> I have read on line that vitamin D2 supplements are made from

 

animals, but I

 

> don't know which ones or how that might be. At the conference

 

they did not

 

> mention that, but they did say that you can use either Vitamin D2

 

or D3 to

 

> increase your levels, both work equally as well in the body. So I

 

don't know

 

> why they are pushing D3, that was not explained either.

 

>

 

> Currently there is a drive on to get the public's attention to the

 

need for

 

> Vitamin D.

 

> All tissues need vitamin D. All tissues need all nutrients.

 

Serum levels

 

> of Vitamin D for all ages should be between 40 and 60 and for

 

breast cancer

 

> patients, they recommend serum levels of 72 ng/ml. Breast cancer

 

victims all

 

> have insufficient levels of Vitamin D and though it will not cure

 

the cancer,

 

> by bringing the level up to optimum it will stop further

 

metastasis.

 

>

 

> The scientists at this convention recommended taking 5000, (yes

 

five

 

> thousand) IU of D3 supplements for three months and get levels

 

checked again. When

 

> you have reached 60 ng/dl then drop back to 2000 daily forever...

 

for adults,

 

> and 1000 for children. Interesting too, mothers who's Vitamin D

 

levels were

 

> low gave birth to babies who either became sick within the first

 

month, or

 

> were subject to developing Type 1, diabetes. But by giving

 

babies and small

 

> children D supplements they prevented type 1 diabetes from

 

occurring in those

 

> nutrient rich kids.

 

>

 

> You can try the website _http://www.grassroo tshealth. org/_

 

> (http://www.grassroo tshealth. org/) which was the organization

 

that sponsored the conference

 

> in San Diego yesterday. It was put together by a local breast

 

cancer survivor

 

> who contacted the doctors and researchers there and who eagerly

 

spread the

 

> word to other professionals to attend. The grassroots

 

organization is trying

 

> to do just that... get a grassroots movement to have everybody

 

tested and

 

> treated for Vitamin D deficiency, which could lead to major

 

reduction of disease

 

> and illness in the entire population. It is a movement to

 

understand and

 

> join. I just ordered from _www.crp.org_ (http://www.crp. org)

 

six bottles of

 

> liquid, one ml gives 5000 IU vitamin D3 daily. Going to give

 

them to my

 

> family members for Christmas.

 

>

 

> Then I saw that Carlson's has an even better deal... liquid

 

vitamin D3 where

 

> ONE DROP contains 2000 IU ! One bottle lasts a whole year!

 

Please look

 

> into this... and remember, if you consult your MD he/she probably

 

won't know a

 

> thing about it. All this new discovery has taken place within

 

the last ten

 

> years and most docs have been out of med school longer and still

 

think the

 

> minimum daily requirement of 400 IU for prevention of rickets is

 

enough to keep

 

> all your cells healthy, including bones, blood and brain. Don't

 

even bother

 

> asking. Check it out for yourself.

 

>

 

> Life Extension labs does the test, and at the conference they

 

mentioned that

 

> it was one they recommended. I didn't write down any others in

 

my notes.

 

> Good luck all.

 

>

 

> Marji

 

>

 

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[Guest guest]

Just how much vitamin D does a Caucasian mowing the lawn in shorts

and a T shirt get in two hours on a summer day? If 2000 IU is

dangerous, why do not lots of people suffer dire consequences from

moderate sun exposure?

 

Alobar

 

On 12/7/08, Rita Reya <azcallin wrote:

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> i heard from other holistic doctors that never take more than 2000 as the body

cannot discard extra of it as it does vit c and you will have problems later as

it builds ?

>

>