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.....However,
The Lancet, the world’s best-known medical journal,
recently suggested in an editorial that most of the benefits of vitamin
D advanced by scientific studies are a “myth.” It says people tend to
have low vitamin D when they are ill because they do not go outdoors
very much.
Most of The Lancet’s trials have used low doses of vitamin D
This was also the view presented in papers published in
The Lancet
by two teams, Philippe Autier of the International Prevention Research
Institute, Lyon, and Mark Bolland of the Department of Medicine,
University of Auckland.
They argue that clinical trials of vitamin D have failed to show any
clear benefit. However, most of the trials have used low doses of the
vitamin. Professor Michael Holick, pioneer of vitamin D research at
Boston University, says 4,000 units per day is required to give an
optimum level of the vitamin in the blood, enough to prevent disease. A
number of clinical trials relied on by
The Lancet editorial and its authors used a daily dose of just 400 units.....
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