A letter to the Vitamin D Newsletter from a radiographer whose infant son had unexplained fractures, with Dr. Cannell's reply arguing that undiagnosed vitamin D deficiency may explain some infant fractures that were blamed on abuse.
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Influenza, Flu Shots, and Vitamin D
Answering a reader who asks whether to get a flu shot or take vitamin D, Dr. Cannell says he does not know, but has come to believe vitamin D may be at least as protective as flu shots, while noting no head-to-head comparison has been done.
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The Vitamin D Newsletter: Yet another autism case report
A Vitamin D Newsletter exchange in which a mother of a three-year-old with autism spectrum disorder, verbal apraxia and hypotonia asks Dr. John Cannell to recommend a New York doctor who treats children with vitamin D, and he replies with a journal citation and follow-up questions.
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The Vitamin D Newsletter: Another Tragedy
A Vitamin D Council newsletter prints a mother's letter: her five-and-a-half-week-old daughter's unexplained arm fracture, and later micro-fractures, led two hospitals to suspect child abuse. The baby's vitamin D was low-normal, the mother's was never tested, and neither took a full history.
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The Vitamin D Newsletter: Gary Null and Vitamin D Toxicity
The Vitamin D Council newsletter recounts Gary Null falling ill after a batch of his own supplement apparently held 2,000,000 IU of vitamin D3 per serving instead of 2,000 IU, and revisits 1930s reports of massive doses. The author warns readers not to try such doses.
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Vitamin D newsletter: Vitamin D questions and answers
A Q&A from Dr. Cannell's vitamin D newsletter, covering how a reader in Germany can get adequate doses given customs limits on importing higher-dose supplements, and how to convert 25(OH)D results reported in nmol/L to ng/mL.
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Vitamin D Newsletter: More letters
A Vitamin D Council newsletter reprinting a reader's letter to Dr. Cannell, from a 46-year-old who took 60,000 to 180,000 IU of vitamin D3 daily for about eight months, reached a blood level of 406 ng/mL with elevated calcium, and asks how to reverse the effects.
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Vitamin D Newsletter: Pseudomonas pneumonia
A reader's letter to the Vitamin D Council asking Dr. Cannell whether 30,000 IU a day is enough for her hospitalized 71-year-old mother with Pseudomonas pneumonia, with the opening of his reply.
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The Vitamin D Newletter: Update on Autism and Vitamin D
The Vitamin D Council newsletter summarises three Swedish papers it says support a vitamin D theory of autism, among them a Karolinska study in which the 10 adult psychiatric outpatients with autism had the lowest 25(OH)D levels of any group, averaging about 12 ng/ml.
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The Vitamin D Newsletter: Vitamin d and heart disease
The Vitamin D Council newsletter summarizes two Annals of Internal Medicine reviews. Pittas and colleagues pooled 32 studies and concluded that lower vitamin D status seems to carry higher risk of hypertension and cardiovascular disease, while supplements' effect on outcomes is unknown.
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The Vitamin D Newsletter: More vitamin D studies
A Vitamin D Council newsletter argues the American press is ignoring recent vitamin D research, then reviews new studies, including University of Toronto work suggesting that common variants in the vitamin D binding protein help explain why blood levels respond differently to supplements.
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The Vitamin D Newsletter: Shattered Family
A Vitamin D Council newsletter reprints a mother's letter to Dr. Cannell describing how her newborn son was found to have a fractured femur and further fractures, how the parents were accused of Shaken Baby Syndrome, and asking whether her own vitamin D deficiency could explain it.
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The Vitamin D Newsletter: Vitamin D fights cancer
The Vitamin D Council newsletter highlights a BMJ study of more than 500,000 people confirming that low vitamin D levels precede colorectal cancer in a dose-response pattern, and argues its authors underplayed their own finding that vitamin A appears to blunt that protection.
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Vitamin D newsletter: More letters on vitamin D and autism
A Vitamin D Council newsletter reprinting three reader letters sent in response to an earlier issue on autism, among them an aunt's account of her nephew's speech and mood improving after she gave him 2,000 IU of vitamin D a day.
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The Vitamin D newsletter: Another autism case report
The Vitamin D Council gives an entire newsletter to one mother's unedited case report of her son's autism, which began around age 2.5 with sleeplessness, anxiety, obsessive repetitive questions, sensory aversions, toe-walking and self-stimulating behaviors.
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More Vitamin D Studies of Interest
The Vitamin D Council newsletter covers Bruce Hollis and Carol Wagner's trial of about 500 pregnant women at 400, 2,000 or 4,000 IU a day. The highest dose caused no adverse events but left newborns averaging 27 ng/ml, and mothers needed 40 ng/ml to maximize activated vitamin D.
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New Harvard Paper on Autism
John Cannell's newsletter responds to a Harvard paper by Dennis Kinney and colleagues that accepts the vitamin D theory of autism and adds five environmental toxins. Cannell objects that pollution theories cannot explain the timing, since U.S. air and water were dirtier decades ago.
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Low Vitamin D Increases Flu Death Risk in Kids
Mercola notes that nearly two-thirds of the 36 US children killed by H1N1 had epilepsy, cerebral palsy or another neurodevelopmental condition, all of which he links to childhood vitamin D deficiency, and that anticonvulsant drugs lower vitamin D levels further.
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