Nutrition

Editor on January 19th, 2012

January 11, 2012 — Dr John Cannell In a paper critical of higher levels of vitamin D for allegedly increasing a marker of inflammation, c-reactive protein (CRP), Drs. Muhammad Amer and Rehan Qayyum of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, began their paper by saying: “The cardiovascular protection offered by vitamin D and its analogues [...]

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Editor on November 25th, 2011

Organised crime is switching to food fraud from activities such as drug trafficking, because detection methods are less developed and penalties are softer. http://www.foodmanufacture.co.uk/Ingredients/Criminals-drop-drugs-for-food-fraud

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Editor on October 28th, 2011

From The Vitamin D Council Newsletter When we talk about T scores, osteopenia and osteoporosis, we assume we are talking about older people, especially post-menopausal women. However, a group of obstetricians and pediatricians from the University of Sienna, led by Dr. Franco Bagnoli, reported that 42% of infants have osteopenia. Bagnoli F, Casucci M, Rossetti [...]

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Editor on October 5th, 2011

The following is an important article by Dr John Cannell of the Vitamin D Council. In September, 2011, two papers with three case reports of vitamin D toxicity were published. Two cases were manufacturing errors and one was a pharmacist’s mistake. Vitamin D levels associated with clear toxicity ranged from 194 to 1220 ng/ml. To [...]

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Editor on September 26th, 2011

Why should you keep your vitamin D level around 50 ng/ml? Four different sources, using four different rationales, and four different lines of reasoning, all lead to the same conclusion. First, what is the vitamin D level of our closest simian relatives, such as chimpanzees living wild in Africa? Professor Reinhold Vieth reports the answer [...]

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