Why is there so much confusion about vitamin D? Dr. Patrick McCullough, MD, discusses the IOM's vitamin D recommendations in comparison to his clinical experiences with vitamin D. He had been researching the vitamin D literature since 2009 and started treating patients in his hospital with vitamin D before the 2011 IOM report on vitamin D came out. He came up with own protocol based on literature, giving 10,000 IU as his standard of care. When the IOM report came out, it said that what he was doing was wrong, however, based on the results his patients were getting, he was only doing good!
He also discusses how his patients, many coming from ICU and long-term acute hospital care, had not been receiving vitamin D, had not been out in sunshine; some had vitamin D levels that were undetectable, and at least 60% had vitamin D levels less than 32 ng/ml.
His protocol is evidence based, and has been working well, with no negative effects.
@2:20 Dr. McCullough discusses several problems with the 2011 IOM report.
There are many deficiencies in the IOM report. First of all, it is based on the assumption that the only diseases that vitamin D could be beneficial for were bone diseases (rickets and osteoporosis) - they did not include any benefit of vitamin D for autoimmune diseases.
Addressing psoriasis (an autoimmune disease) with vitamin D has a history of published research - yet there is no mention of psoriasis in their report. Psoriasis treatment with vitamin D had even been resurrected, yet still no mention of it in IOM report.
The IOM recommendation was also not made based on how much vitamin D could be produced from sun exposure; instead, it was made based on how much vitamin D would be absorbed through the gut from food. Nothing in the diet comes close to providing as much vitamin D as proper sun exposure provides.
@6:00 Dr. McCullough discusses several phototherapy effects on diseases that work in part by restoring vitamin D status. His own paper on psoriasis included baseline and treated vitamin D levels; resulting levels with phototherapy alone (not supplementation) could get up to over 100 ng/ml, yet the IOM says not to go over 50 ng/ml. This is another case showing how the IOM did not acknowledging the literature on other diseases affected by vitamin D, especially psoriasis.
@9:28 Dr. McCullough describes his use of vitamin D in his current practice, with the collection of data to compare 5,000 IU to 10,000 IU vitamin D per day among his patients.
Asthma is also discussed - most studies give doses that are too low, showing no effect of vitamin D; 10,000 IU per day has helped several of his work colleagues with asthma. What is the best dose for asthma? These are the types of research studies that still need to be done...
As Dr. McCullough states, "We can safely control autoimmune diseases and other diseases with physiological levels of vitamin D!"
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