Whereas vaccines only work on adaptive, not innate immunity, vitamin D stimulates, coordinates and strengthens the entire immune system. Part 3 of a series.
Did you see the FDA announcement about approving 4th booster. Read it. Just read it. MAKES NO sense. Not effective they say , some people don’t need but then, go get one. Seriously. As Dr Jessica Rose recently said about another subject but applies here: “Ya just can’t make this stuff up!!”
Vitamin D should already be on board before getting sick - the earliest of the early treatments. I will talk about why and how to keep levels on the high side in the rest of this series.
An important point. Mega-doses after infection don't help much, I understand. Best to take the pills as a routine. I heard that the UK was distributing 200 unit pills which are better than nothing but should have been larger. The pill costs are independent of dose.
The fact that the mRNA inoculants are dangerous is becoming clear through an examination of VAERS. There is no doubt in my mind that VAERS is showing causality.
I was curious how this marvelous elixir is made and used to fill those magical capsules sold for a pittance in every drug store and grocery on the planet, apparently. Found a site foodunfolded.com that explains it in fairly grimy detail. I was heartened to learn they're careful to remove the feces:
"To produce Vitamin 3, sheep’s wool fleece is first washed to remove any impurities – which range from dirt and straw to faeces and parasites such as blow flies. A detergent is then added to extract the crude lanolin. This is then saponified: a process which converts the fatty component into chemicals that can be removed by centrifugation. The remaining lanolin alcohols are then refined further and subjected to a solvent wash and/or chromatography. This extracts crude cholesterol, which is the base ingredient for a series of chemical reactions that produce a compound named ‘7-dehydrocholesterol’, also called ‘pre-Vitamin D3’. This is illuminated by ultraviolet light to form Vitamin D3, mimicking the reaction that occurs in our skin."
There is also a vegan product for those so inclined, called D2, which is less effective but can still get the job done. Also described on that site.
Thank you. Sunlight is my favorite source, because it involves skin, kidneys, liver, likely most bio-available. But winter is another challenge . . . Planning to write about that shortly.
You can easily find vegan vitamin D3. It is made from lichen, a form of algae. Very easy to find and I don't think it is any more expensive than the animal based. You can also get D2 from eating mushrooms that have been exposed to sunlight, and I think the amount of time they need to be exposed is tiny. Of course, it would be hard to know how much you were getting from the mushrooms. Best source in the end is sunlight, so during the time of year when it is possible to get enough, depending on where you live, you should try to get as much as possible.
Have you or anyone done or discovered any studies on the covid vaccines and the incidence of rheumatoid arthritis? or psoriasis? I have several friends that have developed these maladies "out of the blue" over the past year since taking the second pfizer vaxx.
Testing vitamin D is not terribly reliable, as Alan Gaby MD writes about. (He once shocked an auditorium full of naturopathic physicians on that one at a medical conference years ago. He had tested his own patients' vitamin D serum levels on consecutive days, and found it was all over the place. The reason for this is that fat-soluble vitamins tend not to stay in the blood stream.) Nevertheless, vitamin D serum levels are the best indicator we have at the moment. I will write more about this soon, and finish this series within 2 to 3 weeks. In other words, there's no simple answer, but I will provide some ideas you can work with for determining proper dose very shortly.
How much D is needed is very individual. Varies by season, lifestyle, skin tone, and dietary other medical conditions. First step is a blood test. If your level is low, the formula is roughly 1000 iu raises the blood levels about 10 units. I've heard 50 is a good target, but I shoot for a little higher.
Note that most people are deficient in D, and also in magnesium, which is consumed in vitamin D metabolism. So D supplements can worsen the magnesium deficiency, which should also be supplemented. Our chemistry is fairly complex and keeping everything balanced is a continual process. Routine physicals usually test the important nutrients. Some doctors just tell us "normal" which is misleading because normal ranges are pretty wide. Ask for the numbers and they'll tell you.
David Watson’s answer is excellent. I want to second what he said. You have to get your levels checked. But keep in mind too that illness can deplete vitamin D. I wonder if allergies can too because I have environmental allergies and I seem to deplete mine.
5000 IUs is minimum for most people. My ND says, if you have an illness, you can, for limited period go up to even as high as 50,000 or more. Limited time period!!!!!! Most of us probably need 10,000 IUs.
Yikes, Rosemary. I agree with you. I have two family members, in their 40’s, healthy. After getting the two jab to keep their jobs, both ended up with RA. It’s despicable
I feel very awkward and ignorant not knowing that. Thanks for explanation.
(Sorry Ive worked for Drs for 32 years, NEVER once thought to look it up. Should have after both plaquenil/HCQ has come up and my eye docs, my current employers, have a few times referred odd TB type symptoms and odd symptoms occurring after a patient returned from tropical countries with an unusual eye infection that resisted normal treatment, to Rheumatology. I’m usually someone who tries to find out..... hard to admit my ignorance! But I guess this is how we learn!!!!)
Thanks for this. I've been taking sufficient doses of D from the beginning - thanks in part to Clif High who spoke of its importance early days - and have not taken the jab. I also told lots of people to do the same who didn't listen - because who the hell am I? - some of whom are now sorry they took the injection.
Agreed. Critical thinking skills are not being used by people who don't listen to urgent warnings because they demand specific and not necessarily appropriate credentials from the people who are doing the warning.
If you see me stepping in front of a speeding vehicle just rounding a corner, and you yell for me to stop, I'm not going to ignore your warning due to your not being an auto mechanic or a traffic engineer. Your eyes and ears and earlier information are certainly adequate in that scenario to save my life, regardless of your line of work. (Hoping I did not stretch the metaphor too far there.)
I was already impressed. More and more impressed by you Dr Huber. There are a lot of people on other stacks asking for help mitigating vax and covid damage. 2 questions: (1) what do you think of white pine needle tea and (2) do you and collegues have a referral network where I can send people to for seeing an ND in their area.
I have a very good one, like you he also has MD training. I’m in cen Tex. So I know this area and he knows people in Houston.
Can I refer them somewhere if not here?
To say this politely: just like all MDs are not equally bad, not all NDs are equally good. No offense.
That last line, Laura, is a tactful way of saying that there are treasures and disasters in all professions. So true. For example, my chiropractor must be worth his weight in platinum, he is so wonderful. Yet there are others . . . well, anyway.
Anyway, pine needle shikimic acid seems to have helped the COVID-vaccinated who have written about it. Eastern white pine is high in that compound. I think Dr. Zelenko addresses vaccine injury protocols at least as early and thoroughly as anyone. https://vladimirzelenkomd.com
As for naturopathic physicians, Google is still most thorough to come up with the nearest ones. Then there is also a directory at https://naturopathic.org, but is only for that organization's members and is far less complete than who you'll find on Google.
Many thanks. Just as with MDs I’d prefer to have a personal recommendation. But I appreciate it nonetheless. And very many thanks for info on the pine needle tea.
Mar 30, 2022·edited Mar 30, 2022Liked by Dr. Colleen Huber
Just thinking…..As the human body has evolved over millions of years the essential and indispensable need to have vitamin D to function properly should be obvious. What other vitamin that the body requires to function properly can you get all you need from sunshine and not necessary to obtain from a food. That alone should indicate it’s importance.
Exactly. We inherited the body-types of our distant ancestors, not a 21st century model. Their existence was inextricably tied to the outdoors. To imagine that we can spend all our time indoors away from sunlight while still sporting the ancient model physical form just doesn't make sense.
We evolved to get all the nutrients we need from the environment, most often from food, but some also generated by exercise and exposure to temperature extremes and other natural activities avoided by coddled people today. We have screwed up a lot of those evolutionary processes by adopting the trappings of civilization - junk food, air conditioning and clothing all insulating us from those natural processes that used to provide us every nutrient we need. We're especially terrified of sunlight.
Maybe outlawing clothing would be a good naturopathic prescription.
Ha! Sorry, we naturopaths are notoriously libertarian, too respecting of people's choices to even wish to outlaw such a thing as clothing. However, I completely agree with your first paragraph.
Hello! If I understand your article correctly, what you are saying of course makes sense, if you're talking about actual vaccines. But I am learning that what is actually in the "vaccines" for COVID (absolute horror) and what their actual purpose is (death and disability) has nothing to do with health and care of patients.
Aside from what anyone feels about that, it is clear we have a huge profit being made by these pharmaceutical companies whose tentacles are in every aspect of the medical corridor for allopathic care now. It seems clear that "treatment" for COVID now is based on profit and milking insurance policies until it runs out (meaning the patient has died from a ventilator and Remdesivir which is a "treatment" the hospitals follow even though it causes kidney failure and drowning from fluid in the lungs).
Thank you for your continued work and passion for true health care. ❤
The positive about what is going on with these injections. A whole lot of people are getting educated.
I wish my Mayo Doctor 20 years ago for my rheumatoid arthritis would have recommended taking Vitamin D and Fatty Acids as my joints started destroying themselves. I might have avoided replacing both knees, both hips, and a shoulder joint. …….
Vitamin D and Marine n-3 Fatty Acid Supplementation and Prevention of Autoimmune Disease in the VITAL Randomized Controlled Trial
Background/Purpose: In observational studies, vitamin D has been inconsistently associated with reduced risk of several autoimmune diseases, and a large randomized, controlled trial has been lacking. Dietary marine-derived long-chain omega-3 (n−3) fatty acids decrease systemic inflammation and ameliorate symptoms in some autoimmune diseases, but no trials have tested whether supplementation lowers risk of developing autoimmune disease. We tested both vitamin D3 and n-3 fatty acids for the prevention of autoimmune disease within a large nationwide randomized, controlled trial.
Conclusion: Supplementation for 5 years with vitamin D3 and/or n-3 fatty acids reduced incident autoimmune disease by 25-30% in older adults vs. those who received neither supplement. The effect of vitamin D3 appeared stronger after 2 years of supplementation.
A thought experiment: If you in a position to do so and could change CDC/NIH/HHS/WHO policy and you declared that vitamin D were to replace quackcines and remdesivir (run, death is near), how would you go about implementing that?
Would you just advise it and leave it up to each individual to look after themselves?
Would you mandate it?
Would you mandate testing for vitamin D levels?
Would you implement testing for vitamin D levels and then charge higher insurance premiums for those who don't comply and/or have inadequate levels?
Would you create a reward system? What would it look like?
Would you create a culture in which intake of vitamin D was considered as essential as water?
Why are people willing to take drugs multiple times per day for the rest of their life, but won't take vitamin D with the same frequency for the same duration?
If vitamin D were prescribed, would it then achieve the rate of compliance required or would people still not think of it as essential as it is not a drug?
I honestly think that the 13th Amendment of the US Constitution that prohibits slavery also implicitly prohibits any forced medical interventions of any kind on other people, adults or children (and likely 14th and possibly 1st Amendments) no matter how benign or nutritive. Therefore, I think ALL mandates should be illegal everywhere, (and under the US Constitution, I strongly suspect they already are, and that it just hasn't been adequately litigated yet).
My alternative suggestion is to not have narrowly trained medical professionals entirely dominate public discussions of human health. Each adult should make his / her own health decisions and for their children, but at least let naturopathic, acupuncturist, herbalist, chiropractor viewpoints also be heard in the mainstream and social media. And definitely laypeople as well. I think this scenario will be more helpful:
Mandates for anything is usually counterproductive. Competent doctors will advise their patients correctly. The main problem comes from constraining doctors with politicized corruption. If I could mandate anything I would outlaw bureaucrats.
A prescription is a mandate from the doctor. People tend to comply as they have faith that it will help with their condition, even if after multiple refills it does not. Sometimes it is just accepted as part of life.
Sunshine is free, yet we are told not to get too much, to use sunscreen, etc. Mixed messaging leads to confusion. A prescription is clear and understandable while 'get enough sunshine' is more complicated when, as you stated, it varies by individual.
It can then be easy to see why public health wants to simplify by mandating the same shot for everyone every six months/year.
Which brings to mind another question I haven't looked into very much and that is what of those countries in the mid latitudes that have annual sunshine as opposed to dark winters, do they have adequate levels of vitamin D?
Solar intensity varies with how much atmosphere it passes through. Lower sun angle in the sky means it passes through more air, which reduces the UV needed for D production in the skin. Higher latitude, lower sun. Winter, lower sun. Cloudy weather, less sun. Vitamin D is stored in fat tissue for use when the sun isn't available, so it's important to eat well enough to maintain some fat.
If everybody had a healthy diet with good nutrition with some exercise the sick care industry would implode. I think most people would not even need a doctor till they were over 65. It would also force a major restructuring of the food industry. I estimate I don't have to walk down 50% of the aisles in the grocery store because it's all processed junk.
Many thanks for this Vit D series. It has been most informative. There is also some very interesting discussion in the comments section, very thought provoking.
Your ignoring the important part. There is no way the Fauci Gang can make a $1,000 a second on vitamin D.
Thank you….I love when people make sense.
“I love when people make sense”.
LOL
Did you see the FDA announcement about approving 4th booster. Read it. Just read it. MAKES NO sense. Not effective they say , some people don’t need but then, go get one. Seriously. As Dr Jessica Rose recently said about another subject but applies here: “Ya just can’t make this stuff up!!”
What it is not effective against is showing up at the ER and letting them manage your COVID experience in 2020.
Vitamin D should already be on board before getting sick - the earliest of the early treatments. I will talk about why and how to keep levels on the high side in the rest of this series.
An important point. Mega-doses after infection don't help much, I understand. Best to take the pills as a routine. I heard that the UK was distributing 200 unit pills which are better than nothing but should have been larger. The pill costs are independent of dose.
Watch for the upcoming Vitamin D shortage.
That’s funny actually. If you are in southern states or even if not, sunbathe nude for 30 minutes. That’s what my dad used to do, or is that TMI?
And Bill Gates talked about wanting to increase cloud cover. A cynic might ponder what he really wanted from messing with our sunlight that way . . .
TB recovery often involved sitting in the Sun for hours.
Fresh air was the key. Day and night. Patients slept outdoors even in winter time.
It's possible to make your own vit. D supplement by sun-drying mushrooms, gill-side-up.
The fact that the mRNA inoculants are dangerous is becoming clear through an examination of VAERS. There is no doubt in my mind that VAERS is showing causality.
https://lawrencemazzuckelli.substack.com/p/the-first-48-hours-and-and-things?s=w
Wonderful article -- thank you!
I was curious how this marvelous elixir is made and used to fill those magical capsules sold for a pittance in every drug store and grocery on the planet, apparently. Found a site foodunfolded.com that explains it in fairly grimy detail. I was heartened to learn they're careful to remove the feces:
"To produce Vitamin 3, sheep’s wool fleece is first washed to remove any impurities – which range from dirt and straw to faeces and parasites such as blow flies. A detergent is then added to extract the crude lanolin. This is then saponified: a process which converts the fatty component into chemicals that can be removed by centrifugation. The remaining lanolin alcohols are then refined further and subjected to a solvent wash and/or chromatography. This extracts crude cholesterol, which is the base ingredient for a series of chemical reactions that produce a compound named ‘7-dehydrocholesterol’, also called ‘pre-Vitamin D3’. This is illuminated by ultraviolet light to form Vitamin D3, mimicking the reaction that occurs in our skin."
There is also a vegan product for those so inclined, called D2, which is less effective but can still get the job done. Also described on that site.
Thank you. Sunlight is my favorite source, because it involves skin, kidneys, liver, likely most bio-available. But winter is another challenge . . . Planning to write about that shortly.
You can easily find vegan vitamin D3. It is made from lichen, a form of algae. Very easy to find and I don't think it is any more expensive than the animal based. You can also get D2 from eating mushrooms that have been exposed to sunlight, and I think the amount of time they need to be exposed is tiny. Of course, it would be hard to know how much you were getting from the mushrooms. Best source in the end is sunlight, so during the time of year when it is possible to get enough, depending on where you live, you should try to get as much as possible.
How much daily vitamin D for a 65 year old?
Have you or anyone done or discovered any studies on the covid vaccines and the incidence of rheumatoid arthritis? or psoriasis? I have several friends that have developed these maladies "out of the blue" over the past year since taking the second pfizer vaxx.
Testing vitamin D is not terribly reliable, as Alan Gaby MD writes about. (He once shocked an auditorium full of naturopathic physicians on that one at a medical conference years ago. He had tested his own patients' vitamin D serum levels on consecutive days, and found it was all over the place. The reason for this is that fat-soluble vitamins tend not to stay in the blood stream.) Nevertheless, vitamin D serum levels are the best indicator we have at the moment. I will write more about this soon, and finish this series within 2 to 3 weeks. In other words, there's no simple answer, but I will provide some ideas you can work with for determining proper dose very shortly.
How much D is needed is very individual. Varies by season, lifestyle, skin tone, and dietary other medical conditions. First step is a blood test. If your level is low, the formula is roughly 1000 iu raises the blood levels about 10 units. I've heard 50 is a good target, but I shoot for a little higher.
Note that most people are deficient in D, and also in magnesium, which is consumed in vitamin D metabolism. So D supplements can worsen the magnesium deficiency, which should also be supplemented. Our chemistry is fairly complex and keeping everything balanced is a continual process. Routine physicals usually test the important nutrients. Some doctors just tell us "normal" which is misleading because normal ranges are pretty wide. Ask for the numbers and they'll tell you.
David Watson’s answer is excellent. I want to second what he said. You have to get your levels checked. But keep in mind too that illness can deplete vitamin D. I wonder if allergies can too because I have environmental allergies and I seem to deplete mine.
5000 IUs is minimum for most people. My ND says, if you have an illness, you can, for limited period go up to even as high as 50,000 or more. Limited time period!!!!!! Most of us probably need 10,000 IUs.
I take 6000 and my last test, in December, was about 75, which is probably safe. I reduce it a little in summer as I get outside more.
I'm a 65 year old female and take 5,000 IU daily. It's tincture and it contains K2 as well.
https://www.amazon.com/Organic-Vitamin-Maximum-Strength-Absorption/dp/B08CY92YHP/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=2353W5PKKHNVV&keywords=vitamin+d3+k2+drops&qid=1648689350&sprefix=vitamin+d3+k2+drop%2Caps%2C141&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUFKTEowQlNBMzE0REgmZW5jcnlwdGVkSWQ9QTA3OTczMjBaME1RN1BPSDFSNFAmZW5jcnlwdGVkQWRJZD1BMDA0ODI3MTJFRzNZNUtKVkxSVzEmd2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGYmYWN0aW9uPWNsaWNrUmVkaXJlY3QmZG9Ob3RMb2dDbGljaz10cnVl
Yikes, Rosemary. I agree with you. I have two family members, in their 40’s, healthy. After getting the two jab to keep their jobs, both ended up with RA. It’s despicable
About 5,000 IUs, IIRC. Anyone with an autoimmune disorder needs to consult with the rheumatologist before taking a vaccine.
Why rheumatology? I’m missing something here?
Vaccines work by affecting the immune system. Rheumatologits are specialists in the immune system.
I feel very awkward and ignorant not knowing that. Thanks for explanation.
(Sorry Ive worked for Drs for 32 years, NEVER once thought to look it up. Should have after both plaquenil/HCQ has come up and my eye docs, my current employers, have a few times referred odd TB type symptoms and odd symptoms occurring after a patient returned from tropical countries with an unusual eye infection that resisted normal treatment, to Rheumatology. I’m usually someone who tries to find out..... hard to admit my ignorance! But I guess this is how we learn!!!!)
Thanks for this. I've been taking sufficient doses of D from the beginning - thanks in part to Clif High who spoke of its importance early days - and have not taken the jab. I also told lots of people to do the same who didn't listen - because who the hell am I? - some of whom are now sorry they took the injection.
Agreed. Critical thinking skills are not being used by people who don't listen to urgent warnings because they demand specific and not necessarily appropriate credentials from the people who are doing the warning.
If you see me stepping in front of a speeding vehicle just rounding a corner, and you yell for me to stop, I'm not going to ignore your warning due to your not being an auto mechanic or a traffic engineer. Your eyes and ears and earlier information are certainly adequate in that scenario to save my life, regardless of your line of work. (Hoping I did not stretch the metaphor too far there.)
I was already impressed. More and more impressed by you Dr Huber. There are a lot of people on other stacks asking for help mitigating vax and covid damage. 2 questions: (1) what do you think of white pine needle tea and (2) do you and collegues have a referral network where I can send people to for seeing an ND in their area.
I have a very good one, like you he also has MD training. I’m in cen Tex. So I know this area and he knows people in Houston.
Can I refer them somewhere if not here?
To say this politely: just like all MDs are not equally bad, not all NDs are equally good. No offense.
That last line, Laura, is a tactful way of saying that there are treasures and disasters in all professions. So true. For example, my chiropractor must be worth his weight in platinum, he is so wonderful. Yet there are others . . . well, anyway.
Anyway, pine needle shikimic acid seems to have helped the COVID-vaccinated who have written about it. Eastern white pine is high in that compound. I think Dr. Zelenko addresses vaccine injury protocols at least as early and thoroughly as anyone. https://vladimirzelenkomd.com
As for naturopathic physicians, Google is still most thorough to come up with the nearest ones. Then there is also a directory at https://naturopathic.org, but is only for that organization's members and is far less complete than who you'll find on Google.
Many thanks. Just as with MDs I’d prefer to have a personal recommendation. But I appreciate it nonetheless. And very many thanks for info on the pine needle tea.
Another fine work on vitamin Daytime sun shine
I wonder what the supplement is made from? Is it vegan?
I always feel much better after some daylight outdoors sunshine
John Denver (was his airplane crash a hackaxxxxident?????). Wrote that great song about vitamin D...
Sunshine on my shoulder makes me high....
From when music was still legal in betwixt Neil young and Joni Mitchell censorship of fools....
D2 is vegan. D3 is made from sheep wool.
There is also vegan D3 made from lichen. Just as effective as that made from sheep wool and easy to find.
Just thinking…..As the human body has evolved over millions of years the essential and indispensable need to have vitamin D to function properly should be obvious. What other vitamin that the body requires to function properly can you get all you need from sunshine and not necessary to obtain from a food. That alone should indicate it’s importance.
Exactly. We inherited the body-types of our distant ancestors, not a 21st century model. Their existence was inextricably tied to the outdoors. To imagine that we can spend all our time indoors away from sunlight while still sporting the ancient model physical form just doesn't make sense.
We evolved to get all the nutrients we need from the environment, most often from food, but some also generated by exercise and exposure to temperature extremes and other natural activities avoided by coddled people today. We have screwed up a lot of those evolutionary processes by adopting the trappings of civilization - junk food, air conditioning and clothing all insulating us from those natural processes that used to provide us every nutrient we need. We're especially terrified of sunlight.
Maybe outlawing clothing would be a good naturopathic prescription.
Ha! Sorry, we naturopaths are notoriously libertarian, too respecting of people's choices to even wish to outlaw such a thing as clothing. However, I completely agree with your first paragraph.
Sunscreen makers making $
Hello! If I understand your article correctly, what you are saying of course makes sense, if you're talking about actual vaccines. But I am learning that what is actually in the "vaccines" for COVID (absolute horror) and what their actual purpose is (death and disability) has nothing to do with health and care of patients.
Aside from what anyone feels about that, it is clear we have a huge profit being made by these pharmaceutical companies whose tentacles are in every aspect of the medical corridor for allopathic care now. It seems clear that "treatment" for COVID now is based on profit and milking insurance policies until it runs out (meaning the patient has died from a ventilator and Remdesivir which is a "treatment" the hospitals follow even though it causes kidney failure and drowning from fluid in the lungs).
Thank you for your continued work and passion for true health care. ❤
Pharma tentacles reach into pretty much all of our current systems, unfortunately
You mean how with this "vaccine" mandate nonsense they are reaching into everyone's homes, and careers, and livelihoods?
Congress. Pharma lobby. CDC and FDA are revolving doors between their executives . PHARMA runs many parts of "our" govt
The positive about what is going on with these injections. A whole lot of people are getting educated.
I wish my Mayo Doctor 20 years ago for my rheumatoid arthritis would have recommended taking Vitamin D and Fatty Acids as my joints started destroying themselves. I might have avoided replacing both knees, both hips, and a shoulder joint. …….
Vitamin D and Marine n-3 Fatty Acid Supplementation and Prevention of Autoimmune Disease in the VITAL Randomized Controlled Trial
Background/Purpose: In observational studies, vitamin D has been inconsistently associated with reduced risk of several autoimmune diseases, and a large randomized, controlled trial has been lacking. Dietary marine-derived long-chain omega-3 (n−3) fatty acids decrease systemic inflammation and ameliorate symptoms in some autoimmune diseases, but no trials have tested whether supplementation lowers risk of developing autoimmune disease. We tested both vitamin D3 and n-3 fatty acids for the prevention of autoimmune disease within a large nationwide randomized, controlled trial.
Conclusion: Supplementation for 5 years with vitamin D3 and/or n-3 fatty acids reduced incident autoimmune disease by 25-30% in older adults vs. those who received neither supplement. The effect of vitamin D3 appeared stronger after 2 years of supplementation.
https://acrabstracts.org/abstract/vitamin-d-and-marine-n-3-fatty-acid-supplementation-and-prevention-of-autoimmune-disease-in-the-vital-randomized-controlled-trial/
A thought experiment: If you in a position to do so and could change CDC/NIH/HHS/WHO policy and you declared that vitamin D were to replace quackcines and remdesivir (run, death is near), how would you go about implementing that?
Would you just advise it and leave it up to each individual to look after themselves?
Would you mandate it?
Would you mandate testing for vitamin D levels?
Would you implement testing for vitamin D levels and then charge higher insurance premiums for those who don't comply and/or have inadequate levels?
Would you create a reward system? What would it look like?
Would you create a culture in which intake of vitamin D was considered as essential as water?
Why are people willing to take drugs multiple times per day for the rest of their life, but won't take vitamin D with the same frequency for the same duration?
If vitamin D were prescribed, would it then achieve the rate of compliance required or would people still not think of it as essential as it is not a drug?
I honestly think that the 13th Amendment of the US Constitution that prohibits slavery also implicitly prohibits any forced medical interventions of any kind on other people, adults or children (and likely 14th and possibly 1st Amendments) no matter how benign or nutritive. Therefore, I think ALL mandates should be illegal everywhere, (and under the US Constitution, I strongly suspect they already are, and that it just hasn't been adequately litigated yet).
My alternative suggestion is to not have narrowly trained medical professionals entirely dominate public discussions of human health. Each adult should make his / her own health decisions and for their children, but at least let naturopathic, acupuncturist, herbalist, chiropractor viewpoints also be heard in the mainstream and social media. And definitely laypeople as well. I think this scenario will be more helpful:
https://colleenhuber.substack.com/p/re-imagine-healthcare
Mandates for anything is usually counterproductive. Competent doctors will advise their patients correctly. The main problem comes from constraining doctors with politicized corruption. If I could mandate anything I would outlaw bureaucrats.
A prescription is a mandate from the doctor. People tend to comply as they have faith that it will help with their condition, even if after multiple refills it does not. Sometimes it is just accepted as part of life.
Sunshine is free, yet we are told not to get too much, to use sunscreen, etc. Mixed messaging leads to confusion. A prescription is clear and understandable while 'get enough sunshine' is more complicated when, as you stated, it varies by individual.
It can then be easy to see why public health wants to simplify by mandating the same shot for everyone every six months/year.
It's a shame so many people need a medical authority to tell them to go outside.
Which brings to mind another question I haven't looked into very much and that is what of those countries in the mid latitudes that have annual sunshine as opposed to dark winters, do they have adequate levels of vitamin D?
Solar intensity varies with how much atmosphere it passes through. Lower sun angle in the sky means it passes through more air, which reduces the UV needed for D production in the skin. Higher latitude, lower sun. Winter, lower sun. Cloudy weather, less sun. Vitamin D is stored in fat tissue for use when the sun isn't available, so it's important to eat well enough to maintain some fat.
If everybody had a healthy diet with good nutrition with some exercise the sick care industry would implode. I think most people would not even need a doctor till they were over 65. It would also force a major restructuring of the food industry. I estimate I don't have to walk down 50% of the aisles in the grocery store because it's all processed junk.
Many thanks for this Vit D series. It has been most informative. There is also some very interesting discussion in the comments section, very thought provoking.
Thanks, Colleen. Very helpful.