Sunshine can prevent rickets – Poland 1822

Shining light on the vitamin D Holick 2009

• In “1822 the Polish physician, Sniadecki, realized the importance of exposure to outdoors and sunlight for the prevention and cure of rickets.”

• “… it would take another 70 years before the British Medical Association in 1889” caught on

By 2016 (194 years later) there was finally a global concensus:Vitamin D prevents and cures rickets

• Consensus that treatment of Rickets by a single supplement took 80 years, how long for health problems needing 2 supplements – Feb 2016

• Rickets needs Vitamin D and Calcium - Global Consensus Jan 2016

• History of Vitamin D from 500 million years ago to orthopaedic practice today – 2019

• Biochemical rickets non-existent if breastfeeding mother got 600,000 IU of vitamin D (3 dollars) – RCT Dec 2017

• Rickets in England – huge recent increase – Feb 2014 - due to

  • Being indoors more
  • Eating meat/eggs/fish which had been raised in factory farms
  • Drinking (skim) milk which provides has about 1/3 the Vitamin D to the bady as whole milk
  • Having much less Magnesium in diet and water - Magnesium is essentialfor the both to use Vitamin D
  • Fear skin cancer (only if get tto mjuch time in the sun)
  • Less Cholesterol in diet (needed to make vitamin D)
  • Increased salt in food - which decreases Magnesium needed by Vitamin D
  • More dark-skined people living in Northern climates
    • 43 reasons for Vitamin D deficiency

• Vitamin D home fortification- don't wait 100 years for your govt