Could Vitamin D be more important in the Long Term than the Short Term?

When Researchers found out that Vitamin D Deficiency was the cause of Rickets, they thought that their problems were solved. Minute amounts of Vitamin D in milk basically solved the Rickets problem. End of story, pat on the back, job well done boys. We can now go solve some more important world health problems, right? Well, so much more research is being found out about Vitamin D, but doctors are still in the “If you Don’t have Rickets then you don’t have Vitamin D Deficiency” mode of the 1800′s and unfortunately, it doesn’t look like it’s going to change anytime soon.
 
 

But what Researchers are now showing is that Certain Vitamins can cause obvious short term problems at ONE LEVEL of Deficiency, and other- no-so-obvious problems if a HIGHER level if not met.
 

 
Vitamin D, along with Calcium and Folic Acid, is one of those Vitamins.
 
 

The US may not have a rickets epidemic anymore, but we still have a RAMPANT EPIDEMIC of Vitamin D Deficiency Diseases. The amount of research is all but SCREAMING this fact, but doctors still can’t see beyond rickets to investigate the LONG TERM INSIDIOUS DISEASES caused by the long term effects of Vitamin D Deficiency!
 
 

These diseases, called Long Latency Diseases, come about only after many years of low level Vitamin D Deficiency.
 
 

Surprisingly, or not so surprisingly to those that follow my blog and website, these diseases look a LOT like the vast majority of chronic illnesses that doctors have had absolutely no success in treating!
 
 

These Diseases include:

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Heart Disease
Diabetes
Periodontal Disease
Chronic Pain Conditions
Fibromyalgia
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
“Dementia” and Mental Decline
Diabetes
Loss of functioning in old age
Breast Cancer
Osteoporosis
Hypertension
Depression
Other Cancers

 
 

None of these diseases are very responsive to drugs- and patients keep going back to the doctor. Sometimes patients go from doctor to doctor and get on an assortment of different drugs- One, and sometimes two drugs, for EACH of these “different” problems. But since doctors are trained in finding a diagnosis and prescribing a drug or recommending surgery for that problem, they rarely look for the underlying root cause of these problems.
 
 

I’m not suggesting that Vitamin D is going to fix all of these problems. It is not the magic bullet that people are looking for to fix all of their problems- another very Western Medicine approach to disease states.

But, in the case of ALL of these diseases, each one individually has been studied using Vitamin D and EACH ONE has had a measure of success being either prevented or improved using Vitamin D.
 
 

Yet doctors, when they have a patient with ALL of these problems together- Not an uncommon situation- refuse to look at Low Vitamin D Levels as a possible cause and as an element of the treatment regimen. The Medical Establishment does not change as quickly as research does- and is often takes Decades or even Centuries for medicine to change in response.
 
 

(For those who think that I am exaggerating, there were studies done as far back as the late 1800′s that showed that smoking contributes to health problems, yet the AMA took no formal stance on smoking until the 1970′s!)
 
 

 

So, unfortunately, it is generally up to the health care consumer (in other words YOU!) to do their own research so that YOU can promote your own health and be proactive. I urge you to get your Vitamin D Level Checked and Take Enought Vitamin D to get your Vitamin D Blood Levels between 50-80 as recommended by many researchers. It could take the Medical Establishment 100 years to come around to understanding the “Long Latency Effects” of Vitamin D on health.
 
 

I for one, don’t want to wait that long and the technology to do this is right here, right now!
 
 

Kerri Knox, RN
Functional Medicine Practitioner
http://www.easy-immune-health.com