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Posted November 16, 2020: by Bill Sardi
I recently had occasion to forward an email to others about the “casedemic,” the fact new cases of COVID-19 remain high because of excessive testing but deaths are down considerably. The report shows how a panic can be caused by news reports citing an increase in cases which spawn draconian lockdown measures.
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Posted September 12, 2020: by Bill Sardi
A growing body of published studies indicate vitamin D supplementation may allay the symptoms and severity of COVID-19 infections, enough to keep hospitalized patients out of the intensive care unit. The most recent of these studies, published in The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Aug 29,2020) is more than convincing.
But this remarkable study is not likely to change the practices of modern medicine, even though it completely abolished COVID-19-related deaths in the intensive care unit (ICU) and reduced admission from a standard COVID-19 care ward to the ICU from 50% to 2%.
The study involved 76 hospitalized patients who were COVID-19-positive and had symptoms of coronavirus infection such as dry cough, shortness of breath, fever and diarrhea who were on a standard-care COVID-19 hospital ward.
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Posted September 21, 2019: by Bill Sardi
Given that an estimated 100 million American adults are diabetic or pre-diabetic, will this sub-population begin to receive prescriptions for vitamin D from their doctors? This question is now asked because of a revealing study showing diabetics in particular are at 4.5-times greater risk for an early death when their blood levels of vitamin D are low. The risk of death from infectious disease also doubles for individuals who are deficient in vitamin D.
While an abject deficiency of vitamin D is defined as a blood concentration of 10 nanomoles per liter of blood, survival data confirms “a strong association of vitamin D deficiency (under 50 nanomoles/liter or 20 nanograms/millilter) with increased mortality.”
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Posted November 12, 2016: by Bill Sardi
When an iconic source of information in modern medicine, The New England Journal of Medicine, publishes a report saying Americans don’t need more vitamin D, contrary to many other published reports, how is the public to sort out this scientific debate?
According to the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) report only 6% of Americans are vitamin D deficient. The NEJM claims too much vitamin D can lead to a slew of health problem that includes constipation, abnormal heart rhythm and kidney stones. [New England Journal Medicine Nov 10, 2016]
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Posted March 20, 2015: by Bill Sardi
You could almost hear the vitamin D advocates sigh in disappointment just like you hear the crowd at a baseball game groan in unison when a fly ball drops two inches into foul territory with the bases loaded. That was 2011 when the Food & Nutrition Board set the Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) for vitamin D at 600 international units (IU), equal to about 4 minutes of midday sunshine/skin exposure. Many criticisms of that decision followed.
The RDA is defined as the amount of a nutrient needed to meet the requirements of 97.5% of the population. Two leading vitamin D researchers claim the Food & Nutrition Board’s RDA of 600 IU achieves a blood concentration of 26.8 nanomoles per liter of blood rather than the optimal goal of achieving a 50.0+ nanomole/liter blood concentration, which is the goal for optimal health.
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Posted August 16, 2014: by Bill Sardi
A noted expert on the topic of vitamin D and public health is calling for universal vitamin D blood testing and widespread dietary supplementation to augment dietary and sunshine sources of this essential nutrient. Adoption of these practices should not wait for further definitive studies in an effort to “rescue as many patients with vitamin D-related illness as we can during the interim and not wait for further clinical trials to end.”
These are the words of Dr. Cedric F Garland, professor, Division of Epidemiology, University of California San Diego and were posted at Medscape.com in an article entitled “Vitamin D and mortality risk: should clinical practice change? [MedScape.com Aug 13, 2014] MedScape is a website dedicated to educating doctors.
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Posted March 25, 2014: by Bill Sardi
Vitamin D was discovered to cure rickets in 1922. A short time later ergocalciferol, synthetic vitamin D, was developed and is still today the only FDA-approved prescription form of vitamin D despite it being inferior to natural form cholecalciferol – vitamin D3.
Over 90 years have passed since that discovery. The 1920 and 1930s was the era of vitamin discovery. During that time the practice of medicine gravitated away from use of crude medicines such as quinine, opium, cocaine, digitalis and nitroglycerin to synthetic molecules like procaine and barbital that garnered patent protection for pharmaceutical companies. Atabrine was among the first patentable drugs approved for many uses and is related to melfoquine used today to treat malaria.
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Posted December 4, 2012: by Bill Sardi
Recently it has been realized that cholesterol-lowering statin drugs are (marginally) effective only when vitamin D levels are adequate. In fact, statin drugs raise vitamin D levels, which may explain all of the proposed benefits of taking statin drugs. It has also recently been discovered that low vitamin D levels increase triglycerides, a type of blood fat associated with heart problems. And like vitamin D, statin drugs reduce calcification of arteries.
Now another part of the vitamin D/statin drug puzzle has been unraveled. Muscle soreness is a commonly reported side effect among statin drug users. A recent study found that low vitamin D levels increase the risk for muscle soreness among statin drug users by over 10 times (1000%).
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Posted November 28, 2012: by Bill Sardi
Heart doctors are circling the wagons in defense of digoxin which has now been found to increase the relative risk for death from any cause by 41% among patients being treated for atrial fibrillation (fluttering heart muscle in the top chambers of the heart). About one in six patients taking digoxin for an abnormal heart rhythm will die from the drug rather than their heart rhythm disorder over a 5-year period says the report published in the European Heart Journal.
Digoxin (digitalis), first approved for heart failure in 1998, was originally derived from the herb foxglove and used traditionally since the late 1700s.
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Posted September 4, 2012: by Bill Sardi
Comment: Postmenopausaal women don’t have cholesterol/heart disease, they have calcium/heart disease. As their bones wither with the loss of estrogen, calcium is lost from bone and deposited in arteries.
The largest increase in cardiovascular risk is immediately following the onset of menopause. Measuring cholesterol, C-reactive protein, insulin resistance, amounted to measuring incorrect markers of disease, not disease itself. Women’s arteries stiffen due to calcifications. Calcium represents ~50% of arterial plaque, cholesterol about 3-20%. This is why supplemental calcium also increases the risk for mortal heart attacks.
You have to ask yourself, if doctor’s don’t know this, why are they treating your mother? Vitamin D is an anti-calcifying agent, not an anti-cholesterol agent. It appears this study was intentionally designed to fail.
Bill Sardi, Knowledge of Health, Inc.
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