Who took their Vitamin D today? 🌞 #shorts

21 Jul 2022 · 1 min

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In this short video, the speaker reflects on how the medical community’s view of vitamin D has dramatically shifted. He recalls that during his medical school days, prescribing any dose of vitamin D beyond a minimal amount was deemed dangerous and could be considered malpractice. He then notes that recent research has led to a reversal of that stance: higher doses are now commonly prescribed, routine testing of vitamin D levels is standard, and many people are found to be deficient. The speaker explains that vitamin D is more accurately described as a hormone rather than a traditional vitamin, highlighting its broader physiological roles beyond bone health, particularly its involvement in immune function.

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Vitamin D has really gone through a big transition in medicine, you know, not in reality because it's always been vitamin D, but over the years of medicine. Back when I was in medical school, if you gave somebody a supplement with vitamin D in it that had more than a tiny amount, it was considered medical malpractice, considered very dangerous. And then all of a sudden, all of this research starts coming out and people are giving bigger doses of vitamin D, they're checking vitamin D levels, or— Oh gee, everyone's too low and they're raising their vitamin D levels up. It turns out, if you look at vitamin D, it's not really a vitamin, it's a hormone, and it's a hormone that's involved in many more things than just your bone health. Now, we think of it for bone health, it's good for that. Nowadays, we hear about a lot with immune health, and that's very true.