I’m going right off The Independent. Their health editor, Jeremy Laurance, has never been particularly “independent” in his reporting, but on 8th December just gone he excelled himself.In a piece entitled; Vitamin D, the cure-all supplement that could be bad for your health he wrote; But vitamin D, it turns out, has been oversold. After reviewing more than 1,000 research papers, the authoritative Institute of Medicine in the US has concluded that the high levels often recommended are unnecessary and could even be harmful. If he was accurately reported in this piece, Oliver Gillie, who wrote a book on the subject called Sunlight Robbery (the title will ring bells with some of you), was pretty feeble in his comments, saying only that; “American adults are already getting about 300 international units from sun and fortified milk and orange juice, whereas in the UK we get an average of only 150 IUs per day from all sources. So this means we need to take 450 IUs per day to fall in line with the IoM recommendation,” |
Which ignores the extensive evidence that we actually need much more vitamin D, and that it is not toxic at all at the doses we recommend. In anything concerning vitamin D, you should turn immediately to The Vitamin D Council website run by the excellent John Cannell, a psychiatrist in California. Here is some of what he said; http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/vdc-statement-fnb-vitamin-d-report.shtml After 13 years of silence, the quasi governmental agency, the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) Food and Nutrition Board (FNB), today recommended that a three-pound premature infant take virtually the same amount of vitamin D as a 300 pound pregnant woman. While that 400 IU/day dose is close to adequate for infants, 600 IU/day in pregnant women will do nothing to help the three childhood epidemics most closely associated with gestational and early childhood vitamin D deficiencies: asthma, auto-immune disorders, and, as recently reported in the largest pediatric journal in the world, autism. |
My concern is that even taking a food derived vitamin D3 supplement at the level mentioned involves the consumption of calcium. Dr Brian Clements research has shown that calcium supplementation causes problems. Therefore, could it be that it is propbably not the D supplement but the fact that D supplements always have calcium involved that is the problem?