Juhana Harju wrote:
> Marshall Price wrote:
>> Juhana Harju wrote:
>
>>> Here is an in-depth online lecture 'Vitamin D Pandemic and Its Health
>>> Consequences'. The lecture was presented by Professor and vitamin D
>>> scholar Michael Holick in the 34th European Symposium on Calcified
>>> Tissues last year.
>>>
>>> http://www.uvadvantage.org/portals/0/pres/
>>>
>> Is there any text available?
>
> I have not seen the text anywhere.
>
>> What's the gist of it?
>>
>> (I'm on a low-bandwidth connection here.)
>
> I saw the lecture about one and half weeks ago, so I don't remember it in
> detail but the central message is that vitamin D deficiency is common all
> over the world; sufficient vitamin D would reduce the risk of many diseases
> (osteoporosis, diabetes, many cancers, infectious diseases, hypertension,
> some skin diseases, MS); and much higher doses of vitamin D are needed than
> what the official recommendations currently are. Nothing new actually, but
> the lecture is very convincing and well presented.
>
That's what one of the expert guests on "The Charlie Rose Show" said.
I think he recommended 1,000 IU, at least for some people.
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Marshall Price of Miami
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