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Vitamin D Revolution Underway -- Vanquishes Both Major Causes of Mortality; Will Modern Medicine Follow?

Humanity is on the verge of a gigantic leap forward in health promotion, says health journalist Bill Sardi ( Bill's Sardi Knowledge of Health ).
Rapid-fire discoveries point to a single vitamin D pill that may vanquish cancer and heart disease, the two leading causes of mortality in the U.S., as well as quell autoimmune disease (rheumatoid arthritis, lupus), diminish the occurrence of diabetes, reduce obesity, and effectively treat multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis, Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia and high blood pressure, plus conquer the common cold and even defeat tuberculosis, an infectious lung disease that affects one-third of the people of the world.

San Dimas, CA PRWEB) February 21, 2007 -- Literally leading medicine "out of dark ages" is the sunshine vitamin --- vitamin D. Long mischaracterized as a vitamin that can be toxic if taken in amounts that exceed what is found in common multivitamins, and mistakenly said that vitamin D must be chemically altered to produce a man-made version that does not induce over-calcification, most physicians, pharmacists and dietitians have been incorrectly trained to warn the public away from higher doses of vitamin D.

Most multivitamins provide no more than 400 IU (international units) of vitamin D, and the National Academy of Sciences says 2,000 IU is the safe upper limit, with toxicity beginning around 10,000 IU. In many European countries, consumers cannot purchase more than 200 IU of vitamin D in a pill.

But Reinhold Vieth Ph.D., researcher at the University of Toronto, notes that blood levels don't even measurably rise till 4,000 IU is consumed and toxicity begins at 40,000 IU only after many weeks of use.

To demonstrate just how ridiculous the warnings of vitamin D overdose have been, says Sardi, a person standing in the summer sun for an hour at noontime in a Southern latitude (Arizona, Florida) in swim trunks would naturally produce about 10,000 IU of vitamin D through skin exposure.
Sun poisoning from vitamin D overdose has never been reported.

Vitamin D and heart disease

It is increasingly becoming apparent that it is excessive calcium, and not cholesterol, that causes hardening of the arteries and heart attacks,

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Vitamin D Revolution Underway -- Vanquishes Both Major Causes of Mortality; Will Modern Medicine Follow?

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