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It's another attack on Vitamins.

Correction. It may well be taken as another attack on Vitamins, in the popular press (thanks to Big Pharma money and influence.)

But it was clearly intended as a specific concern with Vitamin D, which closely interacts with complex ways with the human immune system. He raises important questions as to whether we should be including Vitamin D in our common food supply as much as we do.

The work that Marshall is doing on the causes of autoimmune diseases, as visible on his blog at http://www.marshallprotocol.com/forum39/ is very impressive, for his energy, his attitude, his talent and his understanding. I wish Mr. Marshall well in his endeavors.

Marshall himself suffers from Sarcoidosis, an autoimmune disease which is often fatal within a decade or two. Sarcoidosis is characterized by boils on the lungs and failure of the lymph nodes. He came down with it in the 1970's. He began his current studies in an effort to understand his own disease.

From the Wiki page for Trevor Marshall:

Trevor G. Marshall, PhD (b. 1948, Adelaide, South Australia), is a biomedical researcher. Over the last few years, he has developed a medical treatment, called the 'Marshall Protocol', which uses low-dose antibiotics, an angiotensin II receptor antagonist (being used as a VDR agonist, and avoidance of Vitamin D, to treat a class of chronic diseases, which he argues are caused by L-form or cell wall deficient bacteria. His protocol is being used by physicians worldwide to treat a variety of chronic diseases. Waterhouse reported these include include Sarcoidosis, Fibromyalgia, and rheumatoid arthritis.

Marshall first began to suspect Vitamin D when he noticed that his condition got worse with more sunlight. Notice that his Marshall Protocol includes Vitamin D avoidance.

One of the finest friends of my life, a woman named Linda, died of Lupus, another autoimmune disease. She too reacted negatively to sunlight, as is typical with Lupus victims.

Thank-you, blam, for posting this. It has led to a better understanding than I ever expected to have of such autoimmune diseases.

“It may well be taken as another attack on Vitamins, in the popular press (thanks to Big Pharma money and influence.)”

Here is Dr. Marshall’s agenda, in his own words:

“Tang et. al, suggested that ‘if Vitamin D is to be used as an adjunct supplement to calcium, its dose should be 800 IU or more.’ It would seem that, if supplementation with Vitamin D is to be effective in the reduction of osteoporosis, it should be administered by a physician, and not via the food chain. Both risks, and benefits, should be evaluated thoroughly.”

You got that? He thinks Vitamin D is a drug that should be controlled by the medical monopoly. I guess you’ll also need a prescription from your doctor to be admitted to the beach during the summer, since 20 minutes of intense summer sunlight causes your body to make 10,000 IU of Vitamin D. Maybe soon the nanny state will require a prescription from the doctor just to cross the street.

I’m sorry that Dr. Marshall has an uncommon condition that causes him to react badly to Vitamin D supplementation ( and presumably sunlight also ). Even the most harmless substance known to man, co-enzyme Q10, has a contra-indication, yeast infection. But I don’t think he has made a rational case that Vitamin D supplementation is anything but helpful for a large majority of the population.