Pages tagged with "Pregnancy"
- Gestational Diabetes treated with 50,000 IU every two weeks – RCT
- Stop Zika birth defects
- US OB-GYN Vitamin D survey – lack consensus, lots to learn
- Perinatal depression decreased 40 percent with just a few weeks of 2,000 IU of vitamin D – RCT
- Recurrent miscarriage associated with half as much vitamin D getting to fetus
- Pregnancy – adding 35,000 IU Vitamin D weekly was nice, but not enough – RCT
- Vitamin D helps during pregnancy – meta-analysis
- Just 400 IU of daily Vitamin D reduced miscarriage (recurrent) by 3.5 times – RCT
- Vitamin D once during pregnancy reduced infant health care costs (300 times ROI) – RCT
- Increased cows milk allergy if Folic acid or Folate added to vitamin D during pregnancy
- If having twins, need more vitamin D
- Miscarriage 70 percent more likely if low vitamin D (see also data on CYP27B1)
- Zinc helps pregnancies – 14 percent fewer preterm births, etc. – Cochrane RCT
- Preterm birth has become the leading cause of infant mortality (vitamin D not mentioned) – JAMA
- Premature birth and infant mortality worse if dark skin (low vitamin D) - 2015
- Neural tube defects – ALL of the women had low vitamin D
- Preterm birth 30 percent more likely if low vitamin D – meta-analysis
- Autism 17 times more likely with excessive Folic Acid and B-12 (now added to bread)
- Prenatal soft drink resulted in 2 times more overweight babies at age 12 months (vitamin D not mentioned)
- Multiple Sclerosis 2X more likely if vitamin D deficient as a fetus decades earlier