Sun Scare

more from letters on autism...

Super interesting letters on what Vitamin D does to get our children's health on track;

So a boy's aunt wrote into the Vitamin D Council telling of her nephew who exhibited all kinds of delayed development (nearly 3, eerily unresponsive, giving one-word answers). Concerned, and noticing that he was always completely covered up in summer and with sunblock she gave a bottle of D to his Mum.

There is a rather lively exchange on the observation that it is the offspring of the educated that are most severely deficient in Vitamin D. The media is all pervasive and totally convincing to the well-read, I guess.

So the next time the aunt sees the parents they're all excited about the amazing change in their son for the better. At the same time she finds out that they've been giving him really high amounts (60,000 to 150,000 IU per day!), completely flooding his system with Vitamin D. It's lucky they did not try this with multi-vitamins!! They dropped it to about 2000 IUs daily. His father says he's a whole new kid speaking naturally in complete sentences and making sense and they're so happy about it.

Keeping his bloods levels around 80-100 ng/ml all the year round is what Dr. Cannell says is needed.

An aside: back in 1955 till 1990 (in Germany) every kid got 300,000 IUs (every 3 months) in their doctor's office until age 1-and-a-half. Kids in the US stopped getting it around 1980. Sad.

In the next letter, we see that high dosing with Vitamin A interferes with Vitamin D (competes with receptor site).

A lady wrote in lamenting that her kids were not that much better with upping their Vitamin D, but the D doctor noted she gave them "sub-clinical Vitamin A toxicity" which blocked the D, so she was holding to the vaccination connection pretty strongly.

Actually, you have to admire mothers: it's not easy to find out and do what's right for your child and she was undoubtedly doing her very best for her children as far as she knew. I'm glad the doctor responded to her letter.

I wish I knew this stuff when I was raising my 4. It's like it was "the dark ages".