So there’s a bit of lukewarm positive vitamin D news out there. The headline in yesterdays news is that pediatricians have doubled vitamin D recommendations.

They’ve gone from recommending 200 IU’s up to a whopping (cough) 400 IU’s. Although this can’t be denied as making progress, it certainly doesn’t help the huge percentage of kids who are currently vitamin D deficient. From what we’ve seen in our clinic, 400 IU’s won’t come close to treating a person who already has abnormally low vitamin D levels. You’ve got to use a much stronger dose to fill the empty vitamin D gas tank first! Then, once you have them in the mid-range of normal, it takes the average person about 5,000 IU’s daily to maintain it.

I’m hoping that this study will inspire even more physicians to obtain baseline levels on all of their patients, followed up by the all important re-checking to see if the treatment is working!

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