Re: Vitamin D & Influenza by Cannell, MD

[Guest guest]

So what is the dosage for vit d for children?

Noelle

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On Feb 25, 2009, at 1:41 AM, a DeVelbiss <gabrieladevelbiss@...

> wrote:

> As readers from 3 years ago remember, this newsletter first published

> evidence vitamin D would prevent influenza and many varieties of the

> common cold in 2005:

>

> http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/newsletter/2005-nov.shtml

>

> I then published the theory in:

>

> Cannell JJ, et al. Epidemic influenza and vitamin D. Epidemiology

> and Infection. 2006 Dec;134(6):1129-40.

>

> As Science News reported, I realized this after observing an

> influenza epidemic at Atascadero State Hospital.

>

> The antibiotic vitamin: deficiency in vitamin D may predispose

> people to infection. Science News, November 11, 2006

>

> Last year, we used vitamin D to explain virtually all of the many

> unsolved mysteries of influenza.

>

> Cannell JJ, et al. On the epidemiology of influenza. Virology

> Journal. 2008 Feb 25;5:29.

>

> Our second influenza paper is by far the most accessed paper in the

> journal this year.

>

> Top 20 most accessed articles for last year in Virology Journal

>

> Today, researchers from Harvard and the University of Colorado,

> writing in the Archives of Internal Medicine, published convincing

> evidence my observations at Atascadero State Hospital were correct.

>

> Vitamin D deficiency linked to more colds and flu. Scientific

> American, Feb 23, 2009

>

> Adit A, et al. Association Between Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Level

> and Upper Respiratory Tract Infection in the Third National Health

> and Nutrition Examination Survey. Arch Intern Med. 2009;169(4):

> 384-390.

>

> Influenza kill around 35,000 Americans every year and similar

> viruses cause additional mortality and untold morbidity. As I have

> said, It appears Linus ing was right about everything he said

> about vitamin C, but he was off by one letter. The Vitamin D

> Council, the nearly broke non-profit educational organization, now

> believes most influenza deaths and many other respiratory

> infections, like the common cold, could be prevented if Americans,

> and their doctors, understood some simple facts:

>

> · Vitamin D is not a vitamin, but a steroid hormone precurso

> r, which has profound effects on innate immunity.

> · The amount of vitamin D in most food and nearly all multiv

> itamins is literally inconsequential.

> · The correct daily dose of vitamin D for adults is approxim

> ately 5,000 IU/day, not the 200-600 IU recommended by the Institute

> of Medicine, the National Institutes of Medicine and the FDA.

> · The only blood test to determine vitamin D adequacy is a 2

> 5-hydroxy-vitamin D, not the 1,25-di-hydroxy-vitamin D test many phy

> sicians now order.

> · Healthy vitamin D blood levels are between 50-80 ng/ml, le

> vels obtained by fewer than 5% of Americans.

> · Medicare’s new proposed rule change, which forbids

> Medicare carriers for paying for virtually all vitamin D blood tests

> (Draft LCD for Vitamin D Assay Testing (DL29510), will kill tens of

> thousands of Americans yearly.

> · The mechanism of action of vitamin D in infection, dramati

> cally increasing the body’s production of broad-spectrum natural ant

> ibiotics (anti-microbial peptides or AMP) suggests pharmaceutical do

> ses of vitamin D (1,000 IU per pound of body weight per day for seve

> ral days) will effectively treat not only influenza and the common c

> old, but help treat a host of other seasonal infections, including m

> eningitis, septicemia, and pneumonia, in both children and adults.

> · In 1997, when the Food and Nutrition Board (FNB) set the c

> urrent guidelines for vitamin D intake, they forgot to correct for t

> he widespread sun avoidance that began in the late 1980’s when the A

> MA’s Council of Scientific Affairs warned against sun-exposure, and

> recommended that all Americans should make every effort to never let

> a photon of sunlight strike their skin. The failure of the 1997 FN

> B to compensate for sun-avoidance, has led to millions of deaths aro

> und the world.

> · Physicians who ignore vitamin D deficiency will eventually

> suffer medical-legal consequences.

> · While many think the influenza virus causes influenza, Can

> nell notes it was Bernard Shaw who first understood: “The cha

> racteristic microbe of a disease might be a symptom instead of a cau

> se.†Bernard Shaw, (Preface on Doctors, The Doctor’s

> Dilemma, 1911).

>

>

> Cannell, MD

> http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/

> The Vitamin D Council

> 9100 San Gregorio Road

> Atascadero, CA 93422

>

> Love, Gabby. :0)

> http://stemcellforautism.blogspot.com/

>

> " I know of nobody who is purely Autistic or purely neurotypical.

> Even God had some Autistic moments, which is why the planets all

> spin. " ~ Jerry Newport

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Vitamin D Dosage is: 55 IU per pound of weight... this is for children and

adults!!! Both my sons take 2,000 IU per day I take 4,000 per day and may be

short on dose!!! But I have noticed better sleep for all of us, calmness and

feel better to!!! More Stamina but not hyper!!! I like Life Extesion brand of

D3...it comes in small capsules of 1,000 IU...

Love, Gabby. :0)

http://stemcellforautism.blogspot.com/

 

" I know of nobody who is purely Autistic or purely neurotypical. Even God had

some Autistic moments, which is why the planets all spin. " ~ Jerry Newport