Vitamin D is unprofitable, so medicine ignores it

Image adapted from Paul Marik SubStack on Vitamin D and Cancer, May 2026

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Why doctors resist Vitamin D

• Doctors have a lot to learn about Vitamin D (Polish doctors in this case)
• "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary is dependent upon his not understanding it”
  Upton Sinclair 1936
• The illusion of evidence-based medicine (too based on money) - BMJ
• Doctors are incentivized to prescribe medicines, not improve health
• 21 reasons why doctors are reluctant to accept Vitamin D

Cost Effective

• Vitamin D has been found to be cost-effective by many studies
• Prevent a COVID death: 9 dollars of Vitamin D or 900,000 dollars of vaccine
  10,000 X lower cost
• A drug that could reduce all these health problems is worth a Trillion dollars - video Holick
• Vitamin D for all senior Germans would cost-effectively prevent 30,000 cancer deaths annually
• Give Vitamin D to 20 pregnant women to eliminate one preterm birth; 600X Return on Investment

Many Consenses, but virtually no action

• 15 Clinical guidelines now recommend vitamin D
• French pediatric consensus: 30 – 60 ng of Vitamin D
• Need 40 to 60 ng of Vitamin D – 48 scientists call for action – 2015
• 50,000 IU of vitamin D every two weeks – Jordan conclusion - RCT
• Seniors need at least 4,000 IU vitamin D, no test needed – Consensus
• Vitamin D patents became public - 1946 the year I was born