Vitamin D again: High-dose vit D to attenuate bone loss in patients with prostate cancer on ADT, phase 2 RCT result

[Maxone73]

I take it for other reasons (and I am taking zometa) but this thing with vit D and bone loss is a never ending story….

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/385...

[Voodoo33993]

Thank you for posting Max! I also take D3 (2000 ICU) + caltrate daily.

[traxcavator]

Decades ago I had chronic stress fractures of both tibia, I did some research, and concluded I needed Vitamin D. Since then there have been no futher problems.

Things I learned: The RDA is bogus. Around a hundred years ago they took a group of young white men. They fed them diets with gradually reduced amounts of the test vitamin until they showed signs of deficiency. Since they didn't know Vit D is a hormone, they didn't control for sun exposure, so the results were meaningless. Most of us living outside the tropics need supplementation during less sunny months.

One Brit. study looked at Vit D blood levels in women with hip fractures. They found levels were 2% of normal to nil.

"They" use hip fracture as an index for other medical procedures. It's a constant in most western countries. The exception is Hawaii where the rate is around half of elsewhere. They didn't look at Vit D levels. I've drawn my own conclusion.

John

[j-o-h-n]

1 bottle of sunrays should fill your bill.........

Good Luck, Good Health and Good Humor.

j-o-h-n

[RMontana]

Vit D has many other benefits for PCa (prostate cancer) patients...I found this podcast informative. Check it out....Rick

healthunlocked.com/active-s...

[janebob99]

Excellent reference. Thanks for posting it.

I routinely take 10,000 IU of Vit-D daily, and I have always had a high bone mineral density.