Re: Thanks

Hello Johng,

Let me see if I understand this...

The idea that low levels of vitamin D in the body are caused because people don't spend any time exposed to UV and don't get vitamin D from their diet result in a deficiency is hard to fathom. Furthermore, the only reason a persons vitamin D levels drop are due to disease. And further, the best way to increase the bodies levels of vitamin D are to resolve the illness.

In contrast, the other side is that people are ill because their vitamin D levels have dropped below optimum, and this causes disease. The reason peoples vitamin D levels have dropped are because they don't spend enough time in UV light, because they live in northern or southern latitudes, and because their diet doesn't include vitamin D rich sources.

In addition, increasing blood levels of vitamin D only result in short term improvement.

Well, vitamin D has only been studied for 70+ years, and in all of that studying and all of the tests done on vitamin D, they results are the same. A lack of vitamin D causes problems. When you restore the vitamin D levels in the body, the problems go away.

So, on one hand we have 70+ years of study and proven testing, and on the other hand we have a theoretical model that has been developed over the last 10 years and there have been no clinical trials substantiating it.

I am not sure the choice is all that difficult to understand and make...

Tom