Post Tagged with: "vitamin D"

Pressure rises for Vitamin supplements to protect against the virus

4 by / on 12 Dec 2020, / in vitamins

By Jerome Burne For almost […]

UK slow to recognise vitamin D as covid fighter

15 by / on 28 Oct 2020, / in vitamins

By Jerome Burne It’s no […]

Citizen researchers: fighting for truth about treatments

10 by / on 12 Sep 2019, / in evidence based medicine

By Jerome Burne Rufus Greenbaum, a […]

The hidden cause of costly vitamin deficiency among older people

4 by / on 21 Nov 2014, / in evidence based medicine, vitamins

A new, as yet unpublished, study shows that the elderly are very likely to seriously lack vitamin D, raising their risk of broken bones. What’s more care homes rarely offer supplements. Making the situation even worse are the cocktails of prescription drugs that many of these patients swallow daily.

Great caution and profound shame

14 by / on 21 Nov 2013, / in vitamins

News that the Chief Medical Officer, Dame Sally Davies, is “profoundly ashamed” at the return of rickets is greatly encouraging. Rickets, the bone disease of children, is only one of dozens of diseases associated with, or known to be caused by, insufficient vitamin D in early life. At last it seems the risks of vitamin D deficiency are being taken seriously. (Read more…}

Why does the government ignore evidence for the benefits of Vitamin D?

12 by / on 16 Nov 2013, / in vitamins

Some years ago I became interested in how the government and the Department of Health deal with preventing illness. My own health had improved after I had lost a lot of weight and I felt so much better that I began researching what else could keep me feeling so well. One bit of advice that kept cropping up was to keep Vitamin D levels topped up. (Read more…)

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