No Tricks Zone By P Gosselin on 4. August 2021
“Vitamin D – Hope Or Hype?” German Professor Says Widespread Deficiency Being Grossly Ignored
I’ve always thought I was getting enough vitamin D, but now realize I’ve been wrong. I’ll be boosting my daily supplement intake to 4000 IU/day.
Often the media and medical establishment spread disinformation about nutrition, the importance of a healthy, balanced diet and supplements.
In an excellent video: Vitamin D “Hope oder Hype”, Prof. Dr. Jörg Spitz looks at the importance of Vitamin D. He concludes that there’s an epidemic of Vitamin D deficiency and that public health officials and institutions are doing nothing about it.
The 90-minute video unfortunately is not available in English and due to time constraints I’m only able to provide you here some of the main takeaways:
Status: Claims that most people aren’t really lacking vitamin D are false.
You can’t “tank up” on Vitamin in the wintertime by spending time in the sun. It doesn’t work because the sun’s rays at higher latitudes are well below a 45° angle and the needed UVB radiation doesn’t reach the surface.
88% of Germans have vitamin D levels under 30 nanograms per mL, which is far below the target range of 40-60 ng.
Only 6% of German women and 1% of German men supplement their Vitamin D intake.
More and more people, including kids, have become chronically Vitamin D deficient over recent years due to poor nutrition and indoor sedentary lifestyles.
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Risks A lack of sun, Spitz says, is as dangerous as smoking.
If you’re below 20 nanograms/milliliter of Vitamin D, your chances of becoming chronically ill are 2 – 3 times greater.
You can’t get the needed Vitamin D through food intake alone. You have to synthesize it with sunlight absorbed by the roughly 2 square meters of skin you were given. Don’t use sunscreen too often.
More:
https://notrickszone.com/2021/08/04/vitamin-d-hope-or-hype-german-professor-says-widespread-deficiency-being-grossly-ignored/