Re: might be true for some, but not others. do your homework people, get tested first...

Chris- no offence, but your post is unsupported. It is very clear you do not understand the issue. I could easily make the same comment about spreading misinformation to you. In fact, if you are telling people to blindly supplement with vitamin d without truly understanding all the mechanisms involved, the risks, and the true reasons for the percieved vit d deficiency, you are causing harm.

I have been hanging around this web site since its inception and have experimented with just about every holistic protocal I have ever heard of. some helped, some are just pipe dreams that make for great fantasy. I have really grown to appreciate the difference between wishful thinking/dogma, and results oriented/empirical data.

Chinese physicians understood this issue long before they knew that bacteria even existed. they knew that once pathogens or disease breached the body's first layer of defenses, and became chronic, the body could no longer expel the pathogen. at that point, the battle shifts. instead, the body uses its vital energy to contain the infection. this is now called a biofilm. its niave to think that pathogens can't hurt you. true if you are in good health. but those of who were poisoned with vaccinations and heavy metals don't have the luxury of pretending that immune systems will do the job that a healty person's would. once the l-form bacteria are in, they only way they are leaving is with a lot of outside help. go check out the lyme forum and those people if bacteria are harmless. you get my point.

the irony is, the blocked VDR issue that marshall discovered.... IS all about the terrain. fix that issue, and then your body will start to do its job and kill pathogens. problem is, taking vit d for this type of person, only futher degrades the terrain by further suppressing the immune system. So, I don't disagree with you, the terrain is important. for that reason, better get tested before you supplement with vit d.

John