Epidemic Influenza And Vitamin D

Medical News Today ^ | 09/15/2006 | Dr. J. J. Cannell

[devere]

Also see

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1736605/posts

from last year.

Stay healthy and keep posting!

[Perdogg]

There is a theory now that lack of naturally producing Vitamin D can lead to MS.

[dljordan]

That was extremely interesting. Thank you.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Everybody wants to be Nostradamus.

[kinoxi]

Hmmm...

[Cicero]

Very interesting and suggestive, indeed.

[mel]

btt

[Domestic Church]

“2,000 units per kilogram of body weight per day for three days”
Isn’t a kilogram equal to 2.205 pounds?
So how much does a 180 lb man need to take?! 120,000 iu???

[devere]

“Everybody wants to be Nostradamus.”

This is science, not fortune telling. And serendipity is a large part of science. Dr. Fleming got his Nobel prize in Medicine for stumbling upon penicillin. It only seems fair to me that Dr. Cannell should someday get his.

[wideminded]

A single, twenty-minute, full body exposure to summer sun will trigger the delivery of 20,000 units of vitamin D into the circulation of most people within 48 hours.

Many years ago my young son ate a large number of children's chewable vitamins. Because they contained vitamin D, and the theory among all doctors was that even a slight increase in the consumption of fat-soluble vitamins above the RDA could be toxic, my son was given ipecac by the doctor, which made him ill in a way that was very unpleasant for him.

On another occasion, a similar thing happened with our dog. Only this time when the dog was given ipecac, he aspirated some of the vomit, got pneumonia, and had to be treated in an animal hospital at incredible expense.

In neither of these cases was there 20000 IU of vitamin D in the entire container of vitamins.

So all this induced vomiting and expense was entirely unnecessary.

Doctors and nutritionists have told us for decades that doses of vitamins above the RDA are unnecessary and even harmful. But they have gradually had to retreat from this position, which they have maintained at great harm to millions of people.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

In a related story, my 92 year old mom is in a nursing home. We had had her on a vitamin regimin. In an effort to save resources, she was taken off the vitamins. There was a dramatic decline in her mental condition. Her condition declined so rapidly I thought she was dying. She was having mini strokes and leaned to the right and was sleeping so soundly, we could not wake her. When we did, she had no idea where she was even though we thought she usually recognized us.

We asked to have her put back on fish oil, Vit C, Vit E and a multi vitamin.

I went to see her today and the change is remarkable. I still can't say the vitamin regimine is definitely the difference but it's getting highly suspicious. She's not going off the vitamins.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

This is science, not fortune telling.

You know what?

Bad things are going to happen in the future.

And I'd be willing to bet dollars to donut holes that the bad things that happen won't have been predicted by you or any other "scientific" soothsayer.

Just this week the United Nations admitted that it has been exaggerating the AIDS epidemic for decades... for the children, of course.

That same United Nations is now on the Anthropogenic Global Warming bandwagon, hoping to become a de facto world government by being granted the authority to decide who gets to produce how much carbon dioxide.

Catastrophe science ain't science - it's politics.

[SweetCaroline]

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[Fractal Trader]

FYI

[ansel12]

“Bad things are going to happen in the future.”

It depends on who you vote for, some of the candidates have already taken a strong stand against “Bad Things”.

In fact, the Democrat party platform is dedicated to “No More Future Bad Things”.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

As an interesting aside, one of the groups with the highest occurance of Lupus is African American women (who could be low in vit. D to begin with). I an Caucasian (very fair) and when Lupus is suspected, one of the first things the pt. is told is to avoid sun exposure (not just on the face to avoid the 'butterfly' rash) but to use a strong SPF on all exposed areas and avoid the sun. Which, using the theory that autoimmune problems can result from low vit. D levels begins a downward spiral where the popular advice could actually be exaggerating the symptoms. I hope more research in done on this...it sounds promising.

[webstersII]

“highest occurance of Lupus is African American women “

The higher the rate of skin pigmentation, the lower the absorption of UVB from the sun, which makes Vitamin D in the body.

So that would correspond to you statistic about Lupus in African-American women.

[Born Conservative]

Hmmm; it would be interesting to see the infection rate of CKD (chronic kidney disease) patients, as the vast majority (if not all) of them are taking Calcitriol or another form of activated Vitamin D.

[Razz Barry]

The third way vitamin D is different from other vitamins is the dramatic difference between natural vitamin D nutrition and the modern one. Today, most humans only make about a thousand units of vitamin D a day from sun exposure; many people, such as the elderly or African Americans, make much less than that. How much did humans normally make? A single, twenty-minute, full body exposure to summer sun will trigger the delivery of 20,000 units of vitamin D into the circulation of most people within 48 hours. Twenty thousand units, that's the single most important fact about vitamin D. Compare that to the 100 units you get from a glass of milk, or the several hundred daily units the U.S. government recommend as �Adequate Intake.� It's what we call an �order of magnitude� difference.

So, in winter we should all have sky lights in our homes and walk around nude. Seriously, this is great news but comes as no surprise to me. My grandmother told me forty + years ago that the sun was good for me. She based it on watching the animals and how good sun bathing fells.

[Born Conservative]

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