Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Adams: In your research on this, how common is vitamin d deficiency in, say, the American population?
Dr. Holick: What's really remarkable is that vitamin d deficiency is epidemic throughout the entire United States, through all age groups. And I'll give you some examples. It's well known that elders throughout the United States are at high risk. And upwards of 40-60% are at risk for vitamin d deficiency. |
| We think that vitamin d deficiency may exacerbate type 2 diabetes, there's some mounting evidence in the literature to suggest that.
Adams: So, if I can summarize, it appears that we have a nation that is suffering from chronic vitamin d deficiency that we are giving to a whole new generation of children who are starting out deficient and are therefore at a high risk for these diseases.
Dr. Holick: I think so, and that's why we're starting to sound the alarm. I'll give you another statistic. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Australia) get more sunlight and therefore have lower rates of vitamin d deficiency. People who live in rainy climates where clouds block the sun most of the year have much higher rates of vitamin d deficiency.
Vitamin D deficiency also strongly promotes breast cancer, prostate cancer and other cancers. And wouldn't you know it: Breast cancer rates are lowest in Southern U.S. states. Depression rates, at the same time, are highest in Seattle and similar places where clouds block out the sun.
To say that depression "causes" osteoporosis is remarkably ignorant. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| And upwards of 40-60% are at risk for vitamin d deficiency. But we also now realize that even younger adults that are otherwise active and who may be always wearing sunscreen before they go outdoors, or they never see the light of day because they're working all the time. When we did a study in Boston, we found that students and doctors 18-29 years of age, at the end of the winter, 32% were vitamin D deficient.
Adams: Wow.
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| Adams: So, if I can summarize, it appears that we have a nation that is suffering from chronic vitamin d deficiency that we are giving to a whole new generation of children who are starting out deficient and are therefore at a high risk for these diseases.
Dr. Holick: I think so, and that's why we're starting to sound the alarm. I'll give you another statistic. The CDC reported that when they looked across the United States at African American women during their child-bearing years, aged 15-49 years of age, 42% were vitamin D deficient at the end of the winter time. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Over 42 percent of Americans suffer from vitamin d deficiency, and 47 percent of pregnant women are severely deficient in this important hormone. Their children tend to have weak bones that break easily, even during their childhood years. Many chronic illnesses are due to vitamin d deficiency, including osteoporosis, cancer, and depression.
You cannot stop a vitamin d deficiency by taking supplements. Sunlight is the only real remedy. To make sufficient amounts of vitamin D, dark-skinned people need to spend at least two to three times longer in the sun than do Caucasians. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Diseases and conditions cause by vitamin D deficiency:
Osteoporosis is commonly caused by a lack of vitamin D, which greatly impairs calcium absorption.
Sufficient vitamin D prevents prostate cancer, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, depression, colon cancer and schizophrenia.
"Rickets" is the name of a bone-wasting disease caused by vitamin d deficiency.
Vitamin D deficiency may exacerbate type 2 diabetes and impair insulin production in the pancreas.
Obesity impairs vitamin D utilization in the body, meaning obese people need twice as much vitamin D. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In fact, the organization continues to warn people away from sunlight, actually contributing to the mass vitamin d deficiency that's now rampant in western nations (including the U.S., Canada and the U.K.).
Vitamin D deficiency greatly reduces the body's ability to halt the growth of cancer tumors. That's why higher amounts of vitamin D circulating through the blood have been shown again and again to dramatically reduce the growth of cancer tumors, keeping them in check and preventing a breast cancer diagnosis. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| People who live in rainy climates where clouds block the sun most of the year have much higher rates of vitamin d deficiency.
Vitamin D deficiency also strongly promotes breast cancer, prostate cancer and other cancers. And wouldn't you know it: Breast cancer rates are lowest in Southern U.S. states. Depression rates, at the same time, are highest in Seattle and similar places where clouds block out the sun.
To say that depression "causes" osteoporosis is remarkably ignorant. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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 Osteomalacia can cause a bent posture and bowed legs from chronic vitamin d deficiency.
Vitamin D deficiency can be a contributor to osteoporosis. Without enough vitamin D, the bones cannot properly mineralize. In addition, increased parathyroid hormone increases the loss of bone minerals. Lowered risk of osteoporotic fracture has been found when the daily intake of vitamin D was 600 to 700 IU as opposed to lower doses.
Sources of Vitamin D
The natural source of vitamin D is from sunshine. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Rickets" is the name of a bone-wasting disease caused by vitamin d deficiency.
Vitamin D deficiency may exacerbate type 2 diabetes and impair insulin production in the pancreas.
Obesity impairs vitamin D utilization in the body, meaning obese people need twice as much vitamin D.
Vitamin D is used around the world to treat Psoriasis.
Vitamin D deficiency causes schizophrenia.
Seasonal Affective Disorder is caused by a melatonin imbalance initiated by lack of exposure to sunlight. |
Andreas Moritz
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| Many chronic illnesses are due to vitamin d deficiency, including osteoporosis, cancer, and depression.
You cannot stop a vitamin d deficiency by taking supplements. Sunlight is the only real remedy. To make sufficient amounts of vitamin D, dark-skinned people need to spend at least two to three times longer in the sun than do Caucasians. Their skin absorbs sun rays less efficiently, hence their need for extended sun exposure. Not being exposed to enough sunlight puts African-American men, for example, at a much higher risk of developing cancer of the prostate than white American men. |
Andreas Moritz
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 They found that over 90 percent of TB patients had a vitamin d deficiency. Their findings came from a study that identified an extraordinarily high incidence of vitamin d deficiency amongst those communities in London most at risk from the disease, which kills over two million people each year. In Britain, the amount of sunlight between October and April is usually insufficient to make vitamin D in the skin so much of the population becomes deficient during the winter and spring.
It is a fact that the main source of the body's vitamin D comes from exposing the skin to sunlight. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 In a study reported in The New England Journal of Medicine, there are indications that vitamin d deficiency is much more widespread than previously thought, especially in older adults. In a group of people of whom few had risk factors for vitamin d deficiency, 57 percent were found to have below-normal levels of vitamin D. Sixty-seven percent of those reporting a vitamin D intake below the RDI had deficiencies categorized as moderate to severe.
Sources
Fish liver oils, fatty saltwater fish (especially mackerel), dairy products, and eggs all contain vitamin D. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Since vitamin D is a substance that halts the growth of cancer tumors when circulating in the blood, it's not at all complex to understand why vitamin d deficiency in black women would result in higher breast cancer mortality.
This stuff is so simple to understand that I recently explained it to an eight grader who wrote it up for a school report. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Chronic vitamin d deficiency caused by darker skin pigmentation, indoor work environments, and dark-skinned people living at Northern latitudes (such as the Northern half of the United States, Canada or the U.K.) where sunlight intensity is greatly reduced. These factors explain why virtually all black children being born in the United States today are vitamin D deficient (see article) and why black women suffer such severe cases of breast cancer. Vitamin D circulating in the blood has the ability halt breast cancer tumor growth, but chronic deficiency allows cancer tumors to grow unregulated. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 The Diet-Vitamin D Connection
I he vitamin d deficiency picture is a bit more complicated than it seems on the surface. You can correct your vitamin D levels and help yourself immensely with that one easy upgrade. But you can really do worlds of good for your health by taking into account the other missing ingredients in your diet—and fixing those, too.
If you eat like many North Americans, you probably have these faux pas to correct:
?You eat too many grains and cheese, which are acid-producing.
?You don't get enough magnesium-rich foods.
?You don't get enough potassium-rich foods. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| To tell people the truth about vitamin D would cost Big Pharma billions of dollars in lost profits from treating all the diseases caused by vitamin d deficiency.
The height of medical stupidity
Now here's the most hilarious part about this whole story. The researchers involved in this study claimed that since antidepressants relieve "the symptoms of depression," they may actually help improve bone density!
Are you getting this? Let me rephrase this:
First, the researchers found a correlation between depression and osteoporosis. |
| Amazingly, none of them apparently have the presence of mind to consider the simple, common cause behind both conditions: Chronic vitamin d deficiency.
This new research found that 17 percent of women with depression showed thinner hip bones, while only 2 percent of non-depressed women showed the same thinness of hip bones. The mainstream media is reporting on the study in articles like this one at the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7109955.stm
The more idiotic media outlets are even reporting that depression causes osteoporosis. See this article in The Hindu: http://www.hindu. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 There are several conditions that can lead to magnesium deficiency and therefore hypoparathyroidism and vitamin d deficiency. These include diuretic use (urinary loss), alcohol abuse (nutritional deficiency), diabetes (urinary loss), and chronic diarrhea (malabsorption). Otherwise, magnesium deficiency is rare. From the conventional scientific viewpoint, the main reason why magnesium is part of calcium supplements is that carbonates are constipating and magnesium has a laxative effect, and therefore the combination is usually better tolerated. |
| Low bone mass may be due to osteoporosis and/or poor bone quality. vitamin d deficiency and other causes of hyperparathyroidism can lead to poor
237 bone quality as well. Clinically, the term osteoporosis is used in reference to loss of bone associated with relatively atraumatic fractures of the ribs, spine, wrist, and hips. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And get this: They're going to give higher (better) ratings to sunscreen products that cause the greatest vitamin d deficiency to their citizens! Apparently, in the univers of Allopathia, the products that cause the most harm to the people receive the highest ratings from government regulatory agencies. Thank goodness our own FDA would never resort to such silliness.
Gastric bypass surgery is good for you!
The Allopathia press is also reporting this week that gastric bypass surgery is really good for you! |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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| Cortical bone loss occurs with calcium and vitamin D abnormalities such as vitamin d deficiency and leads to an increased risk of extremity fractures. An extreme form of this is rickets, which presents with bowing of the femurs that results from small microfractures of those bones. Because of the differences in cortical and trabecular bone, many practitioners prefer to measure both the hip and the spine when doing bone density testing.
The Role of Menopause in Osteoporosis
As we age, bone resorption increases. This increase is worsened by a decrease in bone formation in women after menopause. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Today, vitamin d deficiency is widespread among the populations of the world, and especially in wealthier nations where people spend less time outdoors. This problem is even worse in countries at Northern latitudes like Canada, Germany and the U.K. These are all regions that don't get much sunlight. Since sunlight creates vitamin D in your skin, living at higher latitudes typically results in vitamin d deficiency in the population.
And yet we're learning that vitamin D is quite simply one of the most important nutrients in the human body. I call it a super vitamin. |
The Life Extension Editorial Staff
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 Vitamin D
The possible role of vitamin d deficiency in otosclerosis (abnormal bone growth in the inner ear), unexplained cochlear deafness, presbycusis, bilateral cochlear deafness, and bilateral sensorineural hearing loss has been the subject of scientific studies (Brookes 1983, 1985a,b; Ikeda et al. 1989). These researchers concluded that vitamin d deficiency is likely one of the causal factors in some cases of otosclerosis, cochlear deafness, and presbycusis. According to Brookes (1983; 1985a,b) and Ikeda et al. (1989), vitamin d deficiency should be considered in persons with hearing loss. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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| When women present with postmenopausal osteoporosis, it is assumed that it is related to being female and postmenopausal with low estrogen, but it is also important, as discussed earlier, to rule out other causes of osteoporosis such as parathyroid hormone problems, concomitant steroid use, and vitamin d deficiency.
Calcium is also very important, and many women do not tolerate the most common and least expensive form of calcium, calcium carbonate. |
| Another study of postmenopausal women undergoing hip replacement surgery showed that women with hip fractures were more likely to have a vitamin d deficiency than those undergoing elective joint replacement.81 More recently, the NoNOF study of survivors of hip fractures demonstrated that vitamin D supplementation, either orally or by injection, suppresses parathyroid hormone, increases bone mineral density, and reduces falls.82 The effects were more marked with cosupple-menting with 1,000 mg of calcium per day. |
| Several dietary factors affect bone health and are involved in the development of osteoporosis: insufficient calcium intake, vitamin d deficiency, low calcium and high phosphorus intake, low fatty acid intake, insufficient dark leafy greens, a high-protein diet, excess salt intake, and excess alcohol. See Chapter 14 for dietary and lifestyle factors, supplements, herbs, hormones, and other conventional medications for prevention and treatment of bone loss.
Foods for Heart Health. Heart disease is the other major concern in the postmenopausal years. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Vitamin D deficiency is common in people suffering from intestinal malabsorption. The Cedars-Sinai website gives vitamin D supplements a three-star rating (their highest) for Crohn's disease, meaning there is reliable and consistent scientific data showing a health benefit.
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