Vitamin D

There is a lot of research coming out that the vitamin D rage is another marketing gimmick. In Europe they consider 20 to be an acceptable level where in the USA doctors have been brain washed to think we need to be at 50 to 80.

First of all no vitamin D you buy in a bottle is what the body is used to using. It is a toxin filled (solvents and growth media) compound as chemists attempt to copy the natural substance. Most is made from sheep's wool, fungus or fish oil (rancid from the start). Then it goes through an elaborate chemical process to arrive at a structure that is close to real vitamin D but not the same. There are left over toxic chemicals in every pill...same with fish oil only worse- it has hexane that is neurotoxic.

Our bodies evolved over eons to recognize and use real food based vitamins and light activated vitamin D. These chemical substitutes are so new to our bodies they are considered toxins, often create a stress response and are shuttled into the liver for rapid elimination.

Humans have existed for tens of thousands of years without supplements and even those living in far north area lived healthy lives without supplements like D. If you do the research many people are made worse with vitamin D – also the B vitamins and other supplements.

Remember years back when vitamin A was the rage – then they found A in a bottle can promote cancer. Then it was vitamin C for the immune system – then the man who discovered vitamin C admitted it was not useful for scurvy like an orange is.

 

I gave you a subject line so  you would get more responses.

 

Sherrine

Post Edited By Moderator (Sherrine) : 11/7/2012 9:36:33 AM (GMT-7)

This is a report by one the the premier food chemists/nutritionists in the USA

http://www.newswithviews.com/Ellison/shane158.htm

Osteoporosis is partly genetic and largely from lack of weigh bearing exercise. If you are mature and you don’t exercise sufficiently no amount of calcium will rebuild your bones. You have to stress the osteocytes for them to lay down new bone tissue.

Calcium is an excitory mineral that causes increased firing of the nerve cells – fibro is an HPA axis over stimulation caused by over firing of neurons and vitamin D not regulated through the sun/skin system (by mouth) can drive these neuron into higher depolarization and more fibro symptoms. Vitamin D increases the cellular level of calcium.

As far as people living longer – people throughout history that contacted a disease that there were no drugs for died early – others lived the same life span we have now or longer.

In the cultures with the longest life span they are indigenous people that do not take supplements and in fact do not have ready access to them. If you look at the oldest people on record they were born before supplements

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldest_people#Oldest_people_ever

Careful making statements that are wide-sweeping and all-inclusive. You start from a relatively reasonable premise (excessive vitamin D) to a more suspicious statement (getting vitamins and minerals from food sources) to statements which are far harder to support (calcium). The discussion of health in old age is really a fallacy, not germane to the point you are originally trying to make.

Yes, food is a way to get vitamins and minerals, things our bodies need.

The effects of vitamin D are still being studied.

Sometimes food products or natural sources are not enough and sometimes a person will have difficulty processing what is already there. So they need a little help.

So, osteoporosis is bone degeneration, usually in women.
Woman at risk for osteoporosis need higher levels of calcium, and vitamin D to help absorb the calcium.
Women with a family history of osteoporosis are more at risk.
Lack of weight-bearing exercise might make people more at risk.
Some medications can lead to the development of osteoporosis.

As Sherrine said, one basket only leaves lots of people outside that basket.

Facts are not really facts, or even true, but interpretations of information that may (or may not) prove a statement. That is what makes science and medicine so durned tricky.

Have a great day!