The Vitamin D Solution: A 3-Step Strategy To Cure Our Most Common Health Problem (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
When I found out that I had a severe vitamin D deficiency my doctor prescribed 50,00 IU's a week of vitamin D3 for 15 weeks. I started the supplements and I started looking for answers... this book is a great resource. It has been several months since I started treatments and my levels are slowly but surely increasing. It saddens me to think that there are so many of us that suffer daily with symptoms that can easily be cured by taking a pill once a week or once daily. I tell anyone who will listen to get their levels check. I am hopeful that I will feel tremendously better once my levels are evened out! There are quite a few good vitamin D books out there and this is definitely one of them. The message in each of them is simple. Getting regular sun exposure on as much of your body as you can, without ever burning, is a great idea and if needed this should then also be boosted with D3 supplements to get your vitamin D levels optimised.The book is a bit repetitive but overall is easy to read. It contains specific dosage advice for D3 raising and maintenance D3 levels. Doses of 400 IU are inadequate and some people do best on 5000 - 10 000 IU a day and this is a safe amount to take. How much you take should be guided always by vitamin D tests. The optimal range on vitamin D testing is 60-80 ng/ml. Vitamin D tests can be posted to you and returned for analysis by post. It's so easy.Low vitamin D levels are very common in the general population. It is estimated that there are more people deficient in vitamin D than there are people with normal vitamin D levels. Vitamin D strengthens bones and the immune system , supports the pancreas, promotes well-being, improves digestion, is responsible for the regulation of over 2,000 genes in your body and improves resistance to secondary diseases. It is a hormone as well as a vitamin. I did have a few quibbles with this book. I have read so many solid explanations from orthomolecular experts on why vitamin D2 supplements should be avoided and why they are not as safe or effective as vitamin D3. It was surprising to see that this book supported the use of D2. I also don't support the continued highlighting of calcium supplements when actually many orthomolecular experts lately are saying that due to the constant hype about calcium supplements and the need for high doses of them, many people are actually taking far too much calcium and not enough magnesium.I also think this book would be better if it talked more about the need to balance vitamin A, vitamin D, and also vitamin K. Without vitamin D, vitamin A can become ineffective or toxic, and without vitamin A, vitamin D can become ineffective. It is also essential to take adequate magnesium when taking vitamin D. This is why so many good health books, such as those by Dr Sherry Rogers, recommend getting at least part of your vitamin D from cod liver oil as CLO also contains vitamin A and K. Fermented cod liver oil is a far less processed product than standard cod liver oil and is the best form of this supplement. It's such good stuff. Dosage is usually ½ to 1½ teaspoons daily of fermented cod liver oil, or 1 teaspoon to 1 tablespoon of high vitamin cod liver oil – making sure that the level of vitamin D is appropriate for you and that your vitamin A intake from all sources doesn’t exceed 30 000 IU daily.Probably my biggestissue with this book, and all the vitamin D books I have read is their huge overstating of the impact of low vitamin D levels in causing just about everything. Just like all the magnesium books claim taking magnesium fixes just about everything, and all the books on liver health claim that good liver health fixes everything. It is such an arrogant view and just silly. There is no one magic vitamin or nutrient. They all work together! If you are very deficient in any one thing it'll cause ill health. Vitamin D is wonderful and I really felt the difference in my severe neurological disease in taking my levels from around 10 ng/ml to 50 ng/ml or so. I wish I'd done it sooner. But no way this is the whole solution, it is only one part of it and of several dozen equally important things. Equally as important as vitamin D are the B vitamins, vitamin C (at a bowel tolerance dose), vitamin E, magnesium, vitamin A, healing the gut, and so much more.Getting your vitamin D level up to an optimum level is a great idea and essential if you are seriously ill and trying to heal but it is not a magic bullet, and you'll get the best results when this is done as part of a comprehensive and balanced nutritional program. If money is tight you can look up the vitamin D information from this author online for free and spend your money on a D test or some D3 instead, and soak up lots of free sun as well.Jodi Bassett, The Hummingbirds' Foundation for M.E. (HFME) and Health, Healing & Hummingbirds (HHH)
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