"From your posts, anyone would think that Vitamin D is a panacea for the world’s ills! "
From your posts anyone would think you didn’t want to understand how your body was set by the evolutionary process to function naturally. Every tissue in your body has Vitamin D receptors. Without sufficient vitamin D no part of your body can function as it evolved to function best.
This chart is absolutely meaningless
Only to those who do not want to learn
Your agressive response tells us more about you and your attitude than it does about anything else.
It doesn’t take very long to discover who GRASSROOTSHEALTH are an their scheme for postal 25(OH)D testing and the information they are collecting from those who are supplementing with vitamin D and regularly getting tested.
Those who want to understand how I have managed to chuck out my neuropathic painkillers, analgesics, opiates and muscle relaxants may want to follow this link
and read the article here "More About Vitamin D & Knee Pain
If we are going to expect vitamin D to work as human DNA evolved to function best we have to start with the 25(OH)D level at which Vitamin D is most effective at resolving inflammation.
How Vitamin D Inhibits Inflammation How vitamin D inhibits inflammation -- ScienceDaily
and understand Traditionally living populations in East Africa have a mean serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentration of 115 nmol/l 46ng/ml and rising with pregnancy and age.
Vitamin D3 is activated in the presence of magnesium, modern diets don’t contain sufficent magnesium and most of us have less than the current magnesium RDA in our diets.
We also know that the Omega 3 fatty acids EPA and DHA act as nutritional vitamin D receptor ligands and activate the production of the active form of Vitamin D3.example here
“Omega-3 fatty acid supplementation increases 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D and fetuin-A levels in dialysis patients”
So if you want to manage with fewer neuropathic painkillers, analgesics, opiates and muscle relaxants like I do (in fact I no longer use any pain medication or antibiotics) the key point is to raise 25(OH)D level above 50ng/ml 125nmol/l and keep it there for at least 2 years and then see how much pain medictions you are using them.
But adding 100mg magnesium with each meal and before bed and correcting omega ratio (raising 3 levels lowering omega 6 intake) will improve Vitamin D’s abilty to resolve inflammation and control the inflammatory response.
Can we have a bit of reality please?!!
I’m simply relating my personal experience of learning how to manage chronic neurophatic pain which I worked out after reading this paper
The Biochemical Origin of Pain – Proposing a new law of Pain: The origin of all Pain is Inflammation and the Inflammatory Response PART 1 of 3 – A unifying law of pain The Biochemical Origin of Pain – Proposing a new law of Pain: The origin of all Pain is Inflammation and the Inflammatory Response PART 1 of 3 – A unifying law of pain - PMC
If it works for me it may well work for you.
The point is that maintaining the NATURAL level of anti inflammatory reserves that human DNA evolved with can only help.