Democratic Underground - Disease Incidence Prevention by Serum 25(OH)D Level --Cancers, Diabetes, MS, Fractures, HeartAttacks

Disease Incidence Prevention
by Serum 25(OH)D Level

A chart showing the required vitamin D serum levels for prevention of many diseases
including cancers, falls, heart attacks and diabetes and several others

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Source: GrassrootsHealth (updated 10/16/08)

Ranges of optimal serum 25(OH)D concentrations by vitamin D experts:

Dr. John Cannell (10/1/2008)
Dr. Michael Holick (3/6/2009 "healthy range"= >30 to 100; "all of my patients...":)
Dr. Cedric Garland* @ :33:26 (patients: "60...about right, certainly not much lower than 50, based on data")
Dr. Donald L. Trump @ :25:26 (no toxicity @100ng/mL. Clinical opinion, incl for prostate cancer patients)
Dr. Robert Heaney** @ :16:54 (best-estimate of primitive level = 60 is "very reasonable")
Dr. Soram Khalsa (book: 40 to 70. On newer basis for "optimal penetration of all our tissues...looking like...":)

ng/mL

100

ng/mL

~48

ng/mL

serum 25(OH)D units conversion: 32 ng/mL * 2.496 == 80 nMol/L

@ :34:11

...we will not only avoid rickets, most certainly, but you will see a wide range of diseases...that can similarly be at least
"put on hold" maybe for a few centuries.

@ :22:50

...better than 85%...would have been below 80 nMol/L (32 ng/mL)...So, as a kind of a generalization -- in Boston, at least -- patients on a general medical ward are effectively all vitamin D deficient -- the vast majority of them.

@ :36:54

...serum 25(OH)D levels below 80 nmol/L (32 ng/ml) are not adequate for any body system
Calcium absorptive regulation is suboptimal below 80 nMol/L ( 32 ng/ml)

Chart, 'All Cancers' reference:
Lappe JM, Travers-Gustafson D, Davies KM, Recker RR, Heaney RP
Vitamin D and calcium supplementation reduces cancer risk: results of a randomized trial Amer J Clin Nutr. 2007; 85:1586-91

Related (see abstract):
Estimated benefit of increased Vitamin D status in reducing the economic burden of disease in Western Europe 2/11/09
William B. Grant, Heide S. Cross, Cedric F. Garland, Edward D. Gorham, Johan Moan, Meinrad Peterlik, Alina C. Porojnicu, J�rg Reichrath
and Armin Zittermann

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