Overview of VitaminDWiki

Created January 2016

Although researchers, physicians, and clinical nutritionists can't agree completely on dose rates, recommended blood levels, and expected clinical outcomes, there is no question that vitamin D status plays an important role in reducing, preventing, and in some cases, treating a wide range of chronic degenerative medical conditions. The purpose of the VitaminDWiki is to provide a convenient, comprehensive, and authoritative resource to investigate how optimizing vitamin D status may be helpful for you or someone you care about. It's a big subject so we urge you to spend some time exploring and learning about this important nutrient.

Updated 2017

Vitamin D is associated with many health problems

Less sun ==> Less Vitamin D ==> Less Health (chart)

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70 Proofs that Vitamin D prevents or treats the following diseases

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6 times to 55 times more likely to get these health problems

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CLICK HERE for entire 3X to 55X list for more information

Health problem - examples

Alzheimers-Cognition

Overview Alzheimer's-Cognition and Vitamin D has the following summary

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Breast Cancer

Overview Breast Cancer and Vitamin D contains the following summary and sections

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Breathing

Breathing category starts with the following

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Cardiovascular

Cardiovascular category listing has items along with related searches

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Diabetes

Overview Diabetes and vitamin D appears to be due to a lack of Vitamin D

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Falls and Fractures

Falls and Fractures category contains the following summary

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Kidney

Overview Kidney and vitamin D contains the following summary

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Obesity

Overview Obesity and Vitamin D contains the following summary

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Osteoporosis

Overview Osteoporosis and vitamin D contains the following summary

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Osteoporosis category includes the following

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Pain

Pain - chronic category has the following

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Parkinson’s

Overview Parkinson's and Vitamin D contains the following summary

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Schizophrenia

Overview Schizophrenia and Vitamin D contains the following summary

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Sports

Overview Sports and vitamin D has the following summary

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Groups typically needing more Vitamin D

Seniors need more vitamin D - 10 reasons

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Infants-Child

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Pregnant

Overview Pregnancy and vitamin D

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Darker Skin

Other High Risk Groups

High Risk of little Vitamin D category listing has items and has:

Vitamin D supplementation

Amount of vitamin D needed vs:

More vitamin D needed -nutshell category has the following

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Supplementation from Zika book (July 20, 2016)

Vitamin D Recommendations: based on hundreds of successful Vitamin D studies (with/without pregnancy)

  • 4,000 IU daily average minimum amount of Vitamin D
    • Similar dosing is 50,000 IU bi-weekly (Daily is probably slightly better)
    • It is 1/3 the cost and easier to remember than daily dosing.
    • Note: Taking vitamin D also increases chance of pregnancy

  • More is needed if likely to have very low levels of vitamin D:

    • 6,000 IU daily average if:

      • having twins or had a recent birth,

      • health problems associated with low vitamin D

      • indoors a lot or avoid the sun

      • dark skin

    • 10,000 IU (50,000 IU every 5th day) if:
      • Obese

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Click here for 2014 obesity study

  • if diseases run in the family

    • May want to restore levels as quickly as possible with 350,000 IU loading dose
    • during pregnancy, especially if there is the threat of Zika
    • this gets a strong immune system quickly, not with months of delay using a daily maintenance dose

  • 50,000 IU daily for 1 week if not pregnant

  • 50,000 IU every second day for 2 weeks if pregnant

    • Start ASAP during pregnancy (even before) so as to both avoid Zika and have healthy pregnancy and infant

    • Should use a vitamin D which has no known adverse affects

    • No additives, no oils (30% of oil-based Vit D which restrict vitamin D adsorption)
    • Most people (80%?) can take regular vitamin D capsules
    • Options if:

  • Not want to take pills – use liquid Vitamin D or pour vitamin D powder from capsule into food/drink

  • Poor gut – several “gut friend” forms are available

  • Vegan – several forms of Vitamin D3 are made from plants such as lichen

  • Halal, Kosher, etc.

    • Magnesium Cofactor 100+ miligrams of element daily – tell why especially during pregnancy

  • Increases the benefits of vitamin D

  • Decreases chance of allergic-type reaction to Vitamin D (from ~ 3 in 1000 to 1 in 1000)

    • Omega-3 Cofactor

    • Vitamin K2 cofactor

    • Test for Vitamin D is nice but very expensive ($60) and not really essential

    • Take vitamin D just after evening meal

  • about~30% more benefit with evening meal, but most anytime is OK

    • Just concerned about average vitamin D during a 2 week time period
    • 4,000 IU taken daily is virtually identical to 50,000 IU once every two weeks
    • OK to have missed your dose for a few days - just take nissed once all at once.

How often should I take 50,000 IU

How often should I take 50000 IU (1.25 mg) of vitamin D

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10 minutes of sun not enough

No – 10 minutes per day of sun-UVB is NOT enough

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Loading Dose - to get the benefit as soon as possible

Overview Loading of vitamin D contains the following

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Toxicity is rare

Overview Toxicity of vitamin D

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Free Vitamin D evaluation service

Free Vitamin D evaluation service had the following questions

Positive answers indicates a possible vitamin D deficiency

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Cofactors are important if you take a lot of vitamin D for a long time

Vitamin D Cofactors in a nutshell

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Genes can restrict Vitamin D from getting to the cells

Even if vitamin D levels are OD (e.g. > 40 nanogram)

Genetics category listing contains the following

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Additional Vitamin D information

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VitaminDWiki page Comment
VitaminDWiki: Your Go-To Vitamin D Website - 2019
Does Less Sun mean More Disease 5 minute video summary
Some people have problems with vitamin D Typically low Magnesium
One pill every two weeks gives you all the vitamin D most adults need 50,000 IU every 2 weeks
Vitamin D bulb for use in the home - or perhaps office
Vitamin D from low-cost UVB lamps
Hearing Loss appears to be prevented and treated with vitamin D
Vitamin D reduces hair loss - many studies
Headache with vitamin D may mean you need Magnesium
60,000 IU vitamin D weekly with daily Calcium was safe but not enough in the winter – 2012
Vitamins To Speed Up Metabolism And Aid Weight Loss – May 2011
Low cost vitamin D Blood Tests
Gallbladder removal and vitamin D deficiency If Gallbladder has been removed
must take some other form of Vit D
Water soluable, etc.
43 reasons for Vitamin D deficiency 35 reasons,
20 are new during the past 40 years
Intervention - Vitamin D 270 Vitamin D intervention studies
Diseases that may be related via low vitamin D
Reasons for low response to vitamin D
Heart Attack ICU costs reduced $37,000 by $20 of Vitamin D – Nov 2015 Example of huge Return On Investements
Vitamin D sprayed inside cheeks (buccal spray) - several studies
Do not expect a doctor to recommend a pill which will eliminate his job (vitamin D) "It is difficult to get a man to understand
something when his salary is dependent upon
his not understanding it"

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