07/07/2022
Yesterday I read on an internet page a medical article published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), a previously respectul medical journal. It was written by 5 physicians from England. It reports a case history of a male patient admitted to the hospital with a massive overdose of vitamin D, and it lists all the bad effects he had. I read the original article online from the BMJ and it listed a total amount of vitamin D the patient had been taken for many months. The amount was equal to the amount of vitamin D found in 30 capsules A DAY of 5000 units capsules. In order to calculate this, it was necessary to divide his total daily intake, convert it to
units, and divide by 5000 units. The article in the BMJ had the email of one of the five physician authors of the article, so I emailed him,. I POLITELY told him about my experience with treating 12,000 patients over 18 years with low vitamin d levels, and the results I have seen with many patients suffering from illnesses worsened by insufficient vitamin D. I pointed out to him that many patients (perhaps many thousands) will get scared of continuing to take vitamin d and stop it, and many broken hips and many other vitamin d related illnesses will result, and there will likely be unfortunate deaths. I suggested he publish a clarification in the next issue of the BMJ pointing out this patient took the amount of vitamin D present in 30 capsules of 5000 units A DAY for an extended period of time. No physician would ever recommend anywhere close to this amount. And it is doubtful any individual other than this one in the article would ever take anywhere close to that amount. So far five people have emailed me to ask me about the article, but I know the amount of people who read the well published article is very large. So far I have not gotten a response from the co-author of the study. It is impossible that the 5 physician authors of the article did not understand the negative consequences of their "scare" article.
