Resistance of Average Doctors to Apply Harmless Vitamin D Treatments to Fix Immune System

Tags: South Beach Diet, HFCS, Obesity, Fruit juice, High BP, Uric Acid, Vitamin D Cures Pneumonia

My friends who live in Miami and love South Beach and loved the South Beach Diet which seems to work well. When I was talking to my investment advisor today, she said that she used the South Beach Diet and she mentioned that one thing the authors said about High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS). She said that the book's author said that when they use to eat foods and drinks with HFGS they were hungry all the time! Fruit juice probably has more Fructose than Coke and Pepsi which is pushed as a healthful drink by some doctors! It takes a number of blemished oranges or apples to make one small glass of orange or apple juice.

Metabolism of Fructose in the liver produces glucose going to stored glycogen and the harmful LDLP, uric acid, and triglycerides. In addition Fructose somehow stops our ability to produce Leptin which prevents over-eating and the hormone Ghrelin produced by the Omentum or belly organ which grows in size as we eat too much.

My Doctor Lisa Emond, decided to give me a uric acid test, an insulin test, and the comprehensive one to determine such things as fasting glucose, pH of the blood, and other health parameters. Uric acid was tested routinely in the past, but stopped based on conclusions which has been to shown wrong by Richard Johnson in "The Sugar Fix: The High-Fructose Fallout that is Making You Fat and Sick" and a Journal of the American Medical Association or JAMA in 2008.

We must remember that even Nobel Prize winners can be wrong based on the assumptions they made by selecting data available at that time that supported their theories. We paid that price during the recent Financial Meltdown that led the World to the Great Depression. No one has a lock on the absolute truth. We are all flawed and the more we realize that, the closer we would come to making the right decisions most of the time by being open to opposing rational views.

Below is a letter by a woman to Dr. Cannell who runs the www.vitamindcouncil.org which reports on recent academic work by leading scientists on the wonders of vitamin D. When she was told by a team of doctors that her mother will die within 5 days, she forced them to give her a test of vitamin D and they agreed on 5,000 IU. Without the knowledge of the doctors she gave her mother 30,000 IU of vitamin D daily and she remarkably got a lot better!

Dr. Cannell told the daughter that we are working in an unknown area, but he is recommending boosting the dose every day to 50,000 IU and a few other vitamins including vitamin K2 until she gets over the lung infection.

Jim Kawakami, April 14, 2010, http://jimboguy.blogspot.com

Vitamin D Council

4/13/2010

Dear Dr. Cannell:

My 71 year old mother is in the hospital diagnosed with Pseudomonas pneumonia. Because she also has COPD along with years of prednisone use, her doctors have given her only a 5% chance of survival. The hospital is against patients taking any supplements without doctors orders (they kind of have a don't ask/don't tell policy on supplements), but they have prescribed her Vitamin C and zinc. But they failed to prescribe any Vitamin D.

Under my insistence, six months ago my mother had her vitamin D levels tested and found out she was critically low. So she has been taking 5,000 IU a day since then. But after finding out she had Pseudomonas, unknown to her doctors, I have been giving my mother 30,000 IU of vitamin D for the last 5 days (based on the studies I saw about Pneumonia and Vitamin D). The first few days she had a fever of 99+, but these last 2 days her temperature has returned to NORMAL. Needless to say, her doctors are astounded. They fully expected her to be near death now. But out of fear I am not planning on informing them of her Vitamin D intake unless/until after she fully recovers.

At any rate, I do not want you personal medical advice. But because you have studied Vitamin D so thoroughly, I wanted to ask you, based on the studies and research out there, is 30,000 IU enough for this? Does research show if it is safe or beneficial to take more for this condition? Is there any other cofactors that research shows would be beneficial as well? Really, what has the research shown?

Thank you for any information you can provide. It will be simply wonderful if Vitamin D actually ends up saving my Mother's life.

Much kind regards and thank you for all you do.

Linda Thomas, New York

Dear Linda:

Increase her dose to 50,000 IU per day and continue that dose until she is fully recovered and then reduce it to 5,000 IU per day. Doses of 50,000 IU per day should only be used by critically ill people; they are safe to take for many weeks. This is to be used in addition to her antibiotics, not instead of them.

There is no direct or even much indirect science to support my advice. However, I cannot fail to give my best advice and let your mother die. As far as co-factors, vitamin D needs many but magnesium, zinc, boron, and vitamin K2 are the ones most people are deficient in.

Good reason exists to think that the antimicrobial peptides that vitamin D upregulates (increases) will be effective in a wide variety of infectious disease that peaks in the wintertime, such as pneumonia and meningitis.

I hope your letter may have the effect of reaching others who may be in similar situations.

John Cannell, MD

Executive Director

Vitamin D Council

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HFCS, Soap Triclosan Ban? Allergies Autoimmune Vitamin D

Tags: HFCS, Soap, Triclosan, Antibacterial, Interferes, Brain-Reproductive Development, Increases Deadly Bacteria

Has anyone tried using vitamin D to fix your immune system? It does something very few medicines can do: It increases the effectiveness of our immune system to attack bacteria and viruses, but also fixes our immune system so it does not over-react causing auto-immune diseases which has already helped many patients including myself.

Allergies is another case where our immune system reacts inappropriately to harmless substances. So far no one has suggested this application, but as I have said before, it is certainly worthwhile to try if your vitamin D blood test metabolite 25-hydroxy Vitamin D is too low. The normal range is usually listed as 30 to 80 nanograms/ml or abbreviated ng/ml, but more doctors are recommending we keep it the middle of this range to build up a store house.

Taking 2,000 IU vitamin D3 daily gives us a 12 day stored supply, but we have the ability to store it for about 2-3 months to take advantage of our need during the winter months. Evolution would have wiped out Europeans if they where not able to develop light skin to absorb UVB, now blocked out with the heavy use of sunscreens to cause great deficiency of vitamin D in Americans leading to an increase in cancer and other diseases. Heavy weight loss also decreases our level of vitamin D.

Get tested for vitamin D metabolite in spite of what your doctors tell you and unless your doctor prescribes at least 2,000 IU of vitamin D3 daily, take 2,000 to 5,000 IU daily with meals. Remember 30 minutes with large skin exposure in the 10-4 o'clock maximum sun exposure times during most of the summer and some of the fall gives us about 22,000 IU of vitamin D!

Most doctors now recommend getting it from your foods which is wrong since sunscreens prevent natural production of vitamin D. If you have autoimmune disease, it is mandatory you get the test and I hope he or she will prescribe large doses of at least 50,000 IU per week. One Eugene doctor had to give 30,000 IU Vitamin D daily according to my nurse.

So far I have lost 4 lbs this week by avoiding high fructose foods and especially juices, but still continue my high fiber diet which is also important for weight loss. The food corporations have removed almost all the fiber from foods such as grains leading to white bread, white pasta, and all foods made from flour. Without the fiber, these carbohydrate foods are converted to sugar starting with our saliva! Fiber protects the carbohydrates so less is absorbed and will help us lose weight.

I stopped drinking 24 oz of orange juice daily and temporarily stopped eating high sources of fructose in bananas and apples. We should ban HFCS in prepared foods, fast foods, and everything else and go back to cane sugar which we used before the Obesity Crisis where 80 percent of Americans Overweight or Obese.

We should consider banning most fruit juices in school vending machines along with HFCS soft drinks because we get huge doses of fructose sugar. High Fructose Corn Syrup or in short HFCS prevents our natural ability to stop eating when we have eaten enough. Because of the high hfcs in juices, I was always hungry and had to eat late at night so I could sleep. Now I do not get hungry at night and lost 4 lbs this week!

Jim Kawakami, April 11, 2010, http://jimboguy.blogspot.com

Washington Post The Food and Drug Administration said recent research raises "valid concerns" about the possible health effects of triclosan, an antibacterial chemical found in a growing number of liquid soaps, hand sanitizers, dishwashing liquids, shaving gels and even socks, workout clothes and toys.

The FDA and the Environmental Protection Agency say they are taking a fresh look at triclosan, which is so ubiquitous that is found in the urine of 75 percent of the population, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The reassessment is the latest signal that the Obama administration is willing to reevaluate the possible health impacts of chemicals that have been in widespread use.

In a letter to a congressman that was obtained by The Washington Post, the FDA said that recent scientific studies raise questions about whether triclosan disrupts the body's endocrine system and whether it helps to create bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics. An advisory panel to the FDA said in 2005 that there was no evidence the antibacterial soaps work better than regular soap and water. ... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/07/AR2010040704621.html

The Journal of the American Medical Society Reported 20 Years or So Ago that Triclosan in Soap is Ineffective in Removing Deadly E-Coli H7-157 from Our Hands and Kills Friendly Bacteria to Increase H7-157 Levels. Jim

... In animal studies, triclosan has been found to interfere with hormones crucial for normal brain development and function and reproductive system development and function, Janssen says. ...

http://www.webmd.com/news/20100409/triclosan-question-and-answer April 9, 2010 --

With the FDA reviewing the antibacterial chemical triclosan, widely found in everyday products such as hand soaps, body washes, toothpastes, cosmetics, toys, clothing, and furniture, should you or shouldn't you ditch products with this ingredient?

Here are the most frequently asked questions about triclosan, with answers from experts on both sides of the debate, to help you decide.

Q: What is triclosan?

Triclosan is a chemical added to many products for its antibacterial action.

Q: How long has it been in use?

''It's been in use for over 40 years," says Brian Sansoni, a spokesman for the Soap and Detergent Association, whose members produce soaps and body washes. Initially, its use was only in health care settings such as hospitals, he says.

In the last 15 years, triclosan began showing up in consumer hygiene products, he says.

Q: What prompted the recent FDA investigation of triclosan?

The FDA announcement this week about triclosan was in response to a letter from Rep. Edward J. Markey, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment. ...

Markey had sent the letter in January, requesting information about the status of the FDA's ongoing review of triclosan in consumer products.

Markey is concerned and is calling for the FDA to ban the use of triclosan in personal care products. He wants the Environmental Protection Agency to take steps, too, such as evaluating the potential of triclosan -- washed down the drain with personal care product use -- to contaminate drinking water and contribute to antibiotic resistance. ...

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