Has science proven that the minimal acceptable blood level of vitamin D, in the form of 25(OH)D, is above 50 ng/mL (125 nmol/L)? No. If you’ve been trying to maintain your levels this high because you thought this was the case, I’m sorry to break the news. There is, on the contrary, good evidence that …
Experts Defend Cod Liver Oil, Citing My Work on the Fat-Soluble Vitamins for WAPF!
This January, Dr. Linda Linday, a pediatrician who researches cod liver oil, Michael F. Holick, MD PhD, and several other researchers defended cod liver oil against criticism made a year earlier by Dr. Cannell of the Vitamin D Council and 16 other researchers. They cite the WAPF December 2008 “Cod Liver Oil Update” as an …
Proven: Viamin D Prevents the Flu — Throw Out Your Tamiflu
Well, technically we only “prove” things in math and logic, when we assume our premises. But the most recent study on vitamin D and the flu, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, gets as close to proving anything as we can get in nutritional and medical science. Researchers from Japan conducted a double-blind, …
More Attacks on Vitamin A
New post over at Mother Nature Obeyed: More Attacks on Vitamin A And an addendum: Further Questions on Vitamin A
Does Meat Really Leach Calcium From the Bones?
I have a new blog post over at Mother Nature Obeyed on the Weston A. Price Foundation site: Does Meat Really Leach Calcium From the Bones? Enjoy!
When the Brain Is Hungry For Cholesterol
Those of you who have spent much time perusing my web site know that cholesterol is the limiting factor for the formation of synapses, connections between neurons that form the basis of learning and memory. In fact, one of the reasons we learn better when we get enough sleep is because the brain ramps up …