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Feds keeping people sick: The Vitamin D story
Dr. Lee Hieb explains how medical 'consensus' robs patients of their health
by
Lee Hieb, M.D.
Dr. Lee
Hieb is an orthopaedic surgeon specializing in spinal surgery. She is
past president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, a
free market medical organization
No one said it better than Michael Crichton – who, in addition to being a best selling author, was also a physician.
During a lecture at Cal Tech, he said, “Let’s be clear: The work of
science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the
business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one
investigator who happens to be right. … The greatest scientists in
history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.”
The medical community has always been subject to “group-think,” but
in recent decades we have become the leaders. Numerous
physician-scientists have been ostracized, defrocked, de-licensed and in
some cases driven to self-destruction by a medical community that has
embraced consensus in science.
In essence, “We don’t care about your data; we all agree you are wrong.”
I once had a paper rejected from a major spine journal with a one line denouement: “Everyone knows you can’t do that.”
With time, ultimately, truth prevails, and renegade but correct
physicians are vindicated – but not in time to save those patients who
die from the mistaken consensus. Today, this “group-think” is depriving
people from some of the best and cheapest medical treatment available –
supplementation with adequate Vitamin D3.
Vitamin D deficiency has been associated with childhood rickets – a
bone disorder – for over a hundred years. And it has been known since
the 1970s that those living on the equator, regardless of particular
locale, have lower rates of multiple sclerosis, colon cancer and
depression. But more recently, many astute observers have discovered
that low Vitamin D leads to many other disorders, including cardiac
arrhythmia, breast cancer, adult fractures, dementia, heart attack risk
and even diabetes.
Most recently, studies have demonstrated that higher levels of
Vitamin D improve longevity and are beneficial at preventing influenza –
even better than vaccination. Studies showing beneficial effects of
high vitamin D levels are quite convincing. They not only show a
correlation between low Vitamin D blood levels and the problem, but show
improvement in the disease or prevention of the condition when levels
are raised up through supplementation.
As an example, it has been shown in the laboratory that heart muscle
does not contract well unless adequate Vitamin D is present. An Italian
population study showed that low Vitamin D was proportional to
atherosclerotic plaques (clogging of the arteries). Furthermore, a
Japanese study of dialysis patients demonstrated that correcting Vitamin
D deficiency significantly lowered death from heart attacks and heart
disease in general.
These are only a few of the rapidly expanding body of literature
supporting the role of Vitamin D in multiple disease prevention. But to
achieve the positive effects seen in many diseases, blood levels need to
be in the range of 50 to 100 ng/dl, not the 20 ng/dl that laboratories
report as the lowest range of “normal” (how labs determine “normal” is
the subject of another column). Specifically in the case of breast
cancer, if one achieves blood levels above 55 ng/dl, the risk of breast
cancer is diminished 85 percent.
It is the observation of many, many practicing clinicians that 1)
most patients test in the low 20s, and 2) 400 iu of Vitamin D a day –
the government recommended daily allowance doesn’t raise the levels at
all. Studies of equatorial inhabitants demonstrate that some of the
longest-lived people on the planet obtain 30,000-40,000 iu of Vitamin D
(specifically D3) a day from the sunlight – nature’s source of the
vitamin. Given that, it is not suprising that supplementing 10,000 iu a
day of Vitamin D3 has been shown to have no adverse effects.
As an Orthopaedic Surgeon, I deal with bone disorders daily, and have
long been interested in this topic. I quit testing for Vitamin D levels
in untreated people after every one of my patients tested in the low
20s. I only tested my husband because he was convinced that golfing in
Arizona 18 holes, six days a week would raise his level. It did not –
his level was 22 ng/dl.
As a final fact, D3 supplementation is cheap. For less than $12 a month you can easily take 10,000 iu of Vitamin D3 a day.
Now, given all this, what would you do?
I, for one take 10,000 units of Vitamin D3 a day. I have done so for
over 7 years, and my levels of 55 ng/dl are barely in the optimal range
of 50-100ng/dl. I recommend the same to all my patients. But I must warn
them that the government, via the Institute of Medicine and the FDA,
disagree and believe people should take only 600-800 iu a day.
Now it doesn’t take a medical degree to figure out that a cheap
treatment that has such potential upside with so little (if any)
downside is worth doing as real preventive medicine. But the government
consensus – developed by intellectuals who feel they are infinitely
smarter than we are, and should be able to make our choices for us – is
that there is no evidence for the beneficial claims.
Really? If they emerge from their collective basement, they will find
pages and pages of references. Don’t believe it? Do a simple Google
search. Or just read the newspaper. Besides frequent articles in medical
and general science journals supporting Vitamin D3 supplementation,
there are monthly news stories about this rapidly advancing science.
Sadly, the government doesn’t just want to discourage you from taking
extra Vitamin D, they want to prohibit it. Senator Dick Durban, D-Ill.,
in 2011 introduced a bill (innocuously labeled the “Supplement Labeling
Act”) which would so over-regulate the supplement industry that they
could no longer supply products such as Vitamin D3 at a cost affordable
to the average consumer.
And state medical boards, which are now populated by many
non-physicians, sanction physicians who step out of this approved
“consensus” – what they call “standard of care.” According to them, if
you are not doing what 90 percent of your colleagues are doing, you are
by definition wrong. And they can punish you, even to the
extent of taking away your license. So, regardless of progress in
science, if 90 percent of doctors are recommending an inadequate dose of
Vitamin D, your doctor must give you this wrong advice.
To be a scientific leader in this new world order is to be wrong. If
the phone company had this philosophy, we would still be tied to land
line rotary dials.
Science and medicine are not a vote. As Dr. Crichton pointed out,
voting is for politicians. Science requires freedom to consider the
alternatives, and in medicine, the freedom to make our own choices – not
have government bureaucrats or the Institute of Medicine make them for
us.
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Vitamin
D is a fat-soluble vitamin that is found in some foods and endogenously
produced when sunlight strikes the skin and activates vitamin D
synthesis. Vitamin D promotes the efficient intestinal absorption of
calcium, primarily in the duodenum and jejunum by supporting the
synthesis of calcium-binding proteins to promote normal calcium
absorption and retention. Vitamin D also promotes the normal formation
of bone and normal bone growth and bone remodeling by osteoblasts and
osteoclasts. Vitamin D deficiency can be caused by factors such as lack
of exposure to sunlight, reduced skin synthesis of vitamin D, lower
dietary intake, impaired intestinal absorption and reduced metabolism to
active forms of vitamin D by the kidneys, all of which increase with
aging. Deficiency has been linked to numerous health concerns, and
insufficient levels of this vitamin are associated with weak bones and
muscle weakness. In addition to promoting strong bones, vitamin D also
has other roles in health, including supporting the body’s normal
modulation of neuromuscular function and immune function. Vitamin D has
been shown to support immune-modulation, and it is thought that
supplementation promotes immune health by promoting the body’s normal
regulation of T-cell function. In reference to cellular health, vitamin D
supports the modulation of many genes that are responsible for encoding
proteins that regulate normal cell cycle activity. Vitamin D levels
have been strongly correlated to healthy cells. Lastly, through its
interaction with VDR (vitamin D receptor), vitamin D supports the
healthy expression of the gene encoding renin, thus helping to maintain
healthy blood pressure.
Vitamin K2 45 mcg
Vitamin
K is a fat-soluble vitamin found in meat, eggs, dairy and natto.
Although a fat-soluble vitamin, the body stores very little K2, and its
stores are rapidly depleted without regular dietary intake. Natural
vitamin K2, also known as menaquinone-7 (MK-7), is the most bioavailable
form of K2 and has the longest half-life in the blood of any form of
vitamin K. The Japanese soy food natto is particularly rich in
menaquinone-7 (MK-7). Studies of natto consumption in Japan have linked
menaquinone-7 to bone and cardiovascular health. The correlation of
vitamin K to cardiovascular and bone health directly focuses on
supporting proper calcium utilization, whereby adequate metabolism of
calcium supports arterial and bone health. This is often referred to as
the calcium paradox. The calcium paradox is explained simply as getting
calcium in the right place (i.e., into the bone structures instead of
the arterial vessel walls.) These events are dependent upon the
synthesis of the vitamin K-dependent proteins osteocalcin and matrix Gla
protein in a process called carboxylation. The carboxylation of these
proteins is a post-translational step; that is, osteocalcin and matrix
Gla protein are translated from their respective messenger RNA and then
modified by enzymes to the active forms. These carboxylated forms
support the healthy binding and releasing of calcium. This reaction is
essential for optimal and healthy utilization of calcium. Vitamin K2
promotes the synthesis of proteins involved with calcium utilization,
thereby supporting bone retention and arterial health. While Vitamin D
supports the healthy regulation and synthesis of osteocalcin, the
mineral-binding capacity of this protein requires vitamin K-dependent
carboxylation and is thought to be related to bone mineralization. Gas6
is a vitamin K-dependent protein found throughout the nervous system, as
well in the heart, lungs, stomach, kidneys and cartilage. Although the
exact mechanism of its action has not been determined, Gas6 appears to
be a cellular growth regulator involved in cellular activities such as
cell adhesion, cell proliferation and protection against apoptosis.
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