MB comment: Mainstream medicine is stumbling onto a fact that responsible and educated parents have known for years: Vitamin D3 boosts natural immunity.
Will mainstream medicine’s newfound vitamin D3 knowledge become a broad public health policy to reduce the incidence of respiratory infections?
Of course not. Medical morons have been brainwashed since day one of their pediatric medical training by drug company-funded programs that elevate vaccines to a religious sacrament. No amount of scientific evidence could ever replace vaccines with natural health measures such as vitamin D3 supplementation and healthy nutrition in mainstream medicine.
If pediatricians and corrupt drug company vaccine divisions didn’t have well child visits to pump profit-making, damaging vaccines into healthy childrens’ immune systems they would be out of business.
Parents should take note of the growing evidence in favor of vitamin D supplementation and ditch doctors who are still in the dark ages of pharmaceutical-funded ignorance. See Dr. Mercola for sufficient (and not excessive) vitamin D3 dosage recommendation.
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Vitamin D Supplementation Cuts Respiratory Infections
Medscape August 20, 2012
Supplementing vitamin D in the diets of school children may cut the incidence of acute respiratory infections (ARIs) by as much as half, according to results from a randomized controlled trial carried out in Mongolia.
“This double-blinded [randomized controlled trial] of Mongolian children in winter found that vitamin D3 supplementation with only 300 IU daily led to a clinically and statistically significant reduction in risk of parent-reported ARIs,” Carlos Camargo Jr, MD, DrPH, from the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, and colleagues write in their article, published online August 20 in Pediatrics …
“Compared with controls, children receiving vitamin D reported significantly fewer ARIs during the study period (mean: 0.80 vs 0.45; P= .047), with a rate ratio of 0.52 (95% confidence interval: 0.31–0.89),” the authors write. “Adjusting for age, gender, and history of wheezing, vitamin D continued to halve the risk of ARI (rate ratio: 0.50 [95% confidence interval: 0.28–0.88]).”
The researchers say they saw similarly positive results when they assessed children whose vitamin D levels at baseline had been either below or above the median.
Although the researchers acknowledge that the Mongolian city where the study was carried out, Ulaanbaatar, is situated at a fairly high latitude (48 degrees north), they point out that Montreal and Paris are both at similar latitudes, and many major North American and European are even farther north.