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 Holick: Well, it's critically important for people to realize that even if they have an adequate amount of vitamin D, if they don't have any calcium around, the vitamin D can't have the desired effect on bone health without being able to get enough calcium out of the diet and to put it into the bloodstream which will eventually get to your bones. So, making sure that you have adequate calcium intake is very important. |
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 Maybe synthetic chemicals will kill people who are already approaching death, but that doesn't say anything about the health benefits of macadamia nuts, cashews, peanuts or other natural sources of vitamin E.
Sadly, most people believe the vitamin E scare stories and change their behavior to stop taking both vitamin E and other nutritional supplements altogether. And that, of course, seems to be precisely what conventional medicine wants people to do. |
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 I've seen studies on vitamin E that were using a fraction of even the basic, minimal US RDA numbers, and even those numbers are way too low to be effective in the first place. So, of course, the results are going to be negative. But those results are manufactured for a political purpose (to discredit vitamins) and not at all based on solid science.
When I talk about nutrition and supplementation, I'm talking about taking literally dozens of capsules and eating several scoops of whole-food concentrate powder each and every day of your life. That's what I do; that's what healthy people do. |
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 As I explained, it takes months, it takes years to become vitamin D deficient, and to have such problems with your bones and muscles, and it takes months at least if not up to a year of intensive vitamin D treatment and sunlight exposure in order to reverse that effect.
Adams: That's an important bit of information: you're saying months to years to reverse the deficiency?
Dr. Holick: Right, but what I also tell my patients is that they'll begin to feel better after a month or two, but it's not something that's going to happen overnight. |
| D deficient.
Adams: Wow.
Dr. Holick: And none of the doctors at the time recognized the signs and symptoms or worked these people up for vitamin D deficiency, or treated them appropriately.
Adams: What a tragic failure of diagnosis and treatment.
Dr. Holick: I see this all the time in my clinic. I see women as well as men coming in complaining of severe achiness in their bones and muscles. A complete work up, sometimes thousands of dollars are spent, to do all kinds of tests, not to find the cause, only to be seen by me, only to find that they're vitamin D deficient. |
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 That's how conventional medicine smeared the reputation of vitamin E, by the way. Some vitamin E haters rounded up a bunch of people dying from advanced stage heart disease, then they gave them synthetic vitamin E (i.e. a non-natural chemical) in very low doses. When the people started dying off from their heart disease, the researchers put the blame squarely on vitamin E. Hence the bizarre news headlines in late 2004 proclaiming, "Vitamin E will kill you!" It's all nonsense. |
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 By then it's too late, what you really want to do is take preventative measures, and one of those is to make sure you're getting an adequate source of vitamin D, both from vitamin supplements and from sensible sun exposure. |
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 Having kidney disease or liver damage can greatly impair your body's ability to activate circulating vitamin D.
The sunscreen industry doesn't want you to know that your body actually needs sunlight exposure because that realization would mean lower sales of sunscreen products.
Even though vitamin D is one of the most powerful healing chemicals in your body, your body makes it absolutely free. No prescription required.
On the issue of sunlight exposure, by the way, it turns out that super antioxidants greatly boost your body's ability to handle sunlight without burning. |
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| And that's a great way to fill up the vitamin D tank if it's empty, and to maintain it in its full state for the patient for the rest of his or her life.
Adams: Do you think part of the reason the health benefits of natural sunlight aren't getting a lot of attention is because there's no money in it? I mean, sunshine's free.
Dr. Holick: It certainly is a part of it. And like I said, the problem is that vitamin D deficiency has such subtle but incredibly important health implications. It's the subtlety that's the problem. |
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 Once you see this map, you'll instantly understand the link between sunlight, geographic latitude, skin color, vitamin D and breast cancer.)
Is there no sunlight in Chicago?
Is there an IQ vortex in Chicago that sucks the intelligence out of doctors' heads? How did 100 doctors, nurses and cancer experts get together for a task force on breast cancer and completely miss the single most obvious cause of the disease in black women? |
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| They give synthetic vitamin E and other chemicals to heavily diseased people who are typically suffering from advanced-stage cardiovascular disorders, and then they take the results from those distorted studies and announce to the whole world that "vitamin E will kill you!" Maybe synthetic chemicals will kill people who are already approaching death, but that doesn't say anything about the health benefits of macadamia nuts, cashews, peanuts or other natural sources of vitamin E. |
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| Holick: Well, it's critically important for people to realize that even if they have an adequate amount of vitamin D, if they don't have any calcium around, the vitamin D can't have the desired effect on bone health without being able to get enough calcium out of the diet and to put it into the bloodstream which will eventually get to your bones. So, making sure that you have adequate calcium intake is very important. |
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 Be sure to print out the vitamin D myths, facts and statistics page summarizing the key points of this interview.
Adams: How do you think our country would look in terms of healthcare costs or patient counts if every person were out there getting sensible sunlight and getting adequate vitamin D? What would change?
Dr. Holick: It's almost incalculable, because like I said if you just think about the study that was done in Finland where it can reduce your risk of getting type 1 diabetes by 80%. |
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D deficient, causing widespread vitamin D deficiencies in their unborn children, which predisposes them to type 1 diabetes, arthritis, multiple sclerosis and schizophrenia later in life. 81% of the children born to these mothers were deficient.
Up to 80% of nursing home patients are vitamin D deficient.
 What you can do:
Sensible exposure to natural sunlight is the simplest, easiest and yet one of the most important strategies for improving your health. |
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| If you have adequate vitamin D or some sun exposure.
Adams: Cod liver oil is of course a great source of vitamin D, as you mention, but some people are concerned about contamination of these oily fish with heavy metals - is that a concern?
Dr. Holick: Yes, PCBs. And so, what you have to do is if you're going to buy it, buy it from a respectable source. Certainly it's a step in the right direction. But you know there are omega fatty acids in there that have benefits to the heart, and have other health benefits. |
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 Is there a direct calculation where you can say X number of minutes under the sun at this latitude equals a certain number of units of vitamin D?
Dr. Holick: Within reason. The problem is that obviously there are clouds in the sky, and there's pollution in the air including ozone which absorbs the vitamin producing rays... |
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 Nearly-free prevention methods are well documented and include nutritional supplementation with vitamin D. We know how to prevent cancer, it's just that the corrupt politicians and dirty non-profits in charge of this country won't allow the disease to be prevented at all. There's too much money to be made in treating cancer, and there's no incentive whatsoever to teach the public how to prevent cancer and avoid becoming cancer patients.
The curtain is closing on America's future
America is a public health disaster. |
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| But to suggest that sensible sun exposure, making vitamin D, vitamin D probably evolved early in evolution to modulate cell growth, decrease risk of cancer, modulate your kidney to produce the blood pressure hormone renin, which regulates your blood pressure ... I mean all of those things are very subtle, you can't feel your blood pressure, and you can't feel your cells growing, but you certainly know if you have cancer. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 The results have been, and continue to be, very good. vitamin B-3 is one of the most important nutrients for most childhood health conditions, except for children with infantile autism, where pyridoxine is more useful.
1 Rajakumar K. Pellagra in the United States: A historical perspective. Southern Medical Journal 200o;93(3):272-277.
2 Rajakumar K. Pellagra in the United States: A historical perspective. Southern Medical Journal 200o;93(3):272-277.
3 Latham MC. Human nutrition in the Developing World. FAO Food & Nutrition Series No. 29. |
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 Mike: So, you have vitamin D, I see?
Supkoff: We have vitamins A and D. We have the complete line of B complex; of course, the B12 is a very popular item because of the instant-dissolving-under-the-tongue aspect.
Mike: And you have zinc, I see?
Supkoff: Yes, we have zinc in the line, as well -- standard zinc chelate as well as the zinc lozenge.
Mike: How can customers purchase this product -- directly from your website or retail?
Supkoff: Well, we go through dealers, so they really want to ask for it at their health food store or drug store. |
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 Call them cells gone wild. But vitamin D does several things to keep this from happening. It
?slows the cell life cycle;
?stimulates tumor suppressor genes;
?partners with growth factors to promote normal differentiation;
?facilitates programmed cell death in abnormal cells.
The development of cancer is something like the I Love Lucy assembly-line episode in which Lucy and Ethel tried to process chocolate candies that were coming down the conveyor belt so fast they couldn't be handled. One mistake was compounded by another. And that's essentially what happens to produce cancer cells. |
| The charts in chapter 5 will show you how to maximize sun exposure and vitamin D and minimize risk.
Q: Please explain the difference in the kinds of sun rays and what that means to our health. We need UVA or UVB or both or what?
A: The three spectrums of ultraviolet light are A, B, and C. All UVC is absorbed in the ozone. Small amounts of UVB penetrate the ozone, depending on its thickness, the angle of the sun, cloud cover, upper atmospheric changes, and solar activity. The variable that dominates the changes in UVB that pass through the ozone is the angle of the sun relative to you. |
| By the same token, people who have rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and/or fibromyalgia also may have vitamin D and dietary deficiencies, so this is tricky to diagnose.
KATIE'S ACHES, FATIGUE, IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME, AND POOR SLEEP
Katie, thirty-five, ached all over. She was going to have surgery to relieve her foot pain. Her health problems included disc disease in her lower back and neck, polycystic ovarian disease, headaches, depression, and irritable bowel syndrome. For six years, the pain had been getting worse. |
| Three months later, with a new vitamin D level of 48, Katie had lowered her MHAQ scores to 0-0-35-25-7. She now had only a couple of minutes of stiffness in the morning; her weight was 196 pounds. She was functioning normally, and most of her pain had disappeared. She slept better, and the stiffness had resolved. Overall, she felt 50 percent better.
Six months into the program, with a D level of 70, Katie scored 0-0-20-0-6. She weighed 189 pounds; her function was normal; and she had no pain. She had less stomach pain, constipation, and diarrhea. |
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 Individuals caught seeking sunlight may be charged with not only possession, but trafficking of the vitamin D drug. DEA agents have been alerted and will be called in to arrest sunbathers. Sunscreen checkpoints will also be set up in public places where sunlight may occur, and any citizen who fails to test positive for the presence of sunscreen on their skin will be immediately arrested and charged with trafficking vitamin D.
Hat companies and sunscreen manufacturers hailed the FDA's decision. |
| Since sunlight exposure causes vitamin D production in the human body, individuals who intentionally expose themselves to sunlight will now be arrested and have their blood confiscated by federal health authorities. All citizens are advised to coat themselves with sunscreen every time they go out in the sun and avoid sun exposure until further notice.
Individuals caught seeking sunlight may be charged with not only possession, but trafficking of the vitamin D drug. DEA agents have been alerted and will be called in to arrest sunbathers. |
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 Anywhere that we could get people to participate in this test, we could help dramatically reduce the vitamin D deficiency across the population, which would have enormously positive consequences for the health of newborns especially.
Vitamin D detector would have strong supporters, but vehement opposition from the sunscreen industry
However, if such a device existed, I can tell you right now who would be against it. Sunscreen manufacturers apparently don't want people to get more sunlight. They want people to block sunlight, because that's how they sell their products. |
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 It's a terrible way to get vitamin D. The most efficient vitamin D supplement is still fish oil, and cod liver oil is the best way to go.
There are four main points you should take from this:
You have to get sunlight into your life in order to be healthy and prevent or even reverse major chronic diseases. Start getting more sun.
Boost your antioxidant count, because antioxidants will protect you from the risk of overexposure to sunlight. Astaxanthin, green foods powder, Berry Green, and other green foods are all excellent sources. |
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