Widespread vitamin D deficiency problem in the United States
Hi, I’m Dr. JR Kille and today I’m discussing the widespread vitamin D deficiency problem in the United States. Four years ago at age 44 I broke my collar bone. That seems normal enough given the fall I took playing softball but I had fallen harder many times at a younger age. What was the difference? I was vitamin D3 deficient. Here is some valuable information that my help you make some important choices in your diet and sunscreen use.
According to Mike Adams, Natural News Editor of www.diabeteslibrary.org:
32% of doctors and med school students are vitamin D deficient.
40% of the U.S. population is vitamin D deficient.
42% of African American women of childbearing age are deficient in vitamin D.
48% of young girls (9-11 years old) are vitamin D deficient.
Up to 60% of all hospital patients are vitamin D deficient.
76% of pregnant mothers are severely vitamin 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.
C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D says “Vitamin D3, Cholecalciferol, is the single most important boost for the immune function.” I have been taking 50,000 IU of vitamin D3 per week (about 8,000 IU per day) for the past 3 years. Sunlight on the hands and face for 15 minutes can give about 400 IU of vitamin D3, the FDA’s recommended daily dosage. Someone in Florida wearing a bathing suit with no sunscreen gets about 8,000 IU of vitamin D3 per hour.
Things that make you say, “REALLY”
If Vitamin D3, Cholecalciferol, helps prevent skin cancer and SPF8 or above sun screen stops Vitamin D3 production, then does sunscreen increase your chances of skin cancer?
Fifteen facts you probably never knew about vitamin D and sunlight exposure.
Vitamin D prevents osteoporosis, depression, prostate cancer, breast cancer, and even effects diabetes and obesity. Vitamin D is perhaps the single most underrated nutrient in the world of nutrition. Truth is, most people don’t know the real story on vitamin D and health. So here’s an overview taken from an interview between Mike Adams and Dr. Michael Holick.
Vitamin D 3 is produced by your skin in response to exposure to ultraviolet radiation from natural sunlight.
The healing rays of natural sunlight (that generate vitamin D in your skin) cannot penetrate glass. So you don’t generate vitamin D when sitting in your car or home.
It is nearly impossible to get adequate amounts of vitamin D from your diet. Sunlight exposure is the only reliable way to generate vitamin D in your own body.
A person would have to drink ten tall glasses of vitamin D fortified milk each day just to get minimum levels of vitamin D into their diet.
The farther you live from the equator, the longer exposure you need to the sun in order to generate vitamin D. Canada, the UK and most U.S. states are far from the equator.
People with dark skin pigmentation may need 20 – 30 times as much exposure to sunlight as fair-skinned people to generate the same amount of vitamin D. That’s why prostate cancer is epidemic among black men — it’s a simple, but widespread, sunlight deficiency.
Sufficient levels of vitamin D are crucial for calcium absorption in your intestines. Without sufficient vitamin D, your body cannot absorb calcium, rendering calcium supplements useless.
Chronic vitamin D deficiency cannot be reversed overnight: it takes months of vitamin D supplementation and sunlight exposure to rebuild the body’s bones and nervous system.
Even weak sunscreens (SPF-8) block your body’s ability to generate vitamin D by 95%. This is how sunscreen products actually cause disease — by creating a critical vitamin deficiency in the body.
It is impossible to generate too much vitamin D in your body from sunlight exposure: your body will self-regulate and only generate what it needs.
If it hurts to press firmly on your sternum, you may be suffering from chronic vitamin D deficiency right now.
Vitamin D is “activated” in your body by your kidneys and liver before it can be used.
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.
Things that make you say, “REALLY”
Some pharmacies sell high concentration, 50,000 IU, vitamin D3 capsules for as much as $4 per capsule. At our office you will only pay 28₵ per capsule.
Important dosage facts taken from C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D
Everyone needs D3. For adults, the IDEAL is 50,000 units once a week. For children under 12, 50,000 units once a month. For individuals over 140 pounds, 50,000 units daily is generally safe if you do not take any calcium supplements and have normal kidney function. BUT, if you do then you must check calcium levels frequently. The amount of calcium in a multivitamin/mineral is fine and calcium foods are fine. If you do choose to take 50,000 units daily, do not check your D3 level for at least 8 months, as it will be very high for at least that long. HOWEVER, check your calcium level in about 6 weeks and at least every 6 months! If you are not going to check the calcium levels, do not take more than 50,000 units of D3 once a week!! Blood calcium levels are the only test related to the D3 that make sense. If your blood calcium level is within the normal range, then there is no known toxicity.
For more information and references go to www.normshealy.com and check archived articles on Vitamin D.
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