News Report – Too much Vitamin D a bad thing?

This is precisely the kind of headline and article I find enormously frustrating. I also think it is not at all helpful and may be detrimental becuase the editors choose to headline it in a way that could create fear and someone chosing a course of action without reading the article thoroughly. Because if you read the article it essentially says we don't know anything about Vitamin D and whether it is good or bad in this specific instance. It almost certainly does not say anything about whether even if it was bad in the sense of an effect being basal cell carcinoma that the good in other health ways outweighs it by a huge factor.

As with many I'm sure on this forum, I am friends with lots of doctors. Some of these (because of my location in Seattle which has a high percentage of cancer research institutions and other commercial research companies) have done a lot of research on Vitamin D and some have had personal experiences with cancer. I've talked a lot with them about supplements and the differences they could make on the immune system and supplements in general and the impact on health. Irrespective of whether you believe in the supplement industry or not, I have found that the vast majority of docs will say there are really only two supplements which have proved efficacious in preserving and enhancing health (especially if you live in northern climes as I do). They are Vitamin D supplements (2,000 IUs daily) and fish oil.

So I'd toss this article in the trash folder until some other rigorous study comes along.

This is precisely the kind of headline and article I find enormously frustrating. I also think it is not at all helpful and may be detrimental becuase the editors choose to headline it in a way that could create fear and someone chosing a course of action without reading the article thoroughly. Because if you read the article it essentially says we don't know anything about Vitamin D and whether it is good or bad in this specific instance. It almost certainly does not say anything about whether even if it was bad in the sense of an effect being basal cell carcinoma that the good in other health ways outweighs it by a huge factor.

As with many I'm sure on this forum, I am friends with lots of doctors. Some of these (because of my location in Seattle which has a high percentage of cancer research institutions and other commercial research companies) have done a lot of research on Vitamin D and some have had personal experiences with cancer. I've talked a lot with them about supplements and the differences they could make on the immune system and supplements in general and the impact on health. Irrespective of whether you believe in the supplement industry or not, I have found that the vast majority of docs will say there are really only two supplements which have proved efficacious in preserving and enhancing health (especially if you live in northern climes as I do). They are Vitamin D supplements (2,000 IUs daily) and fish oil.

So I'd toss this article in the trash folder until some other rigorous study comes along.