Vitamin D is good for your heart

[crimple]

Also in today's Daily Mail, "Scientists at Leeds University have found that taking Vit D3 increases the heart's pumping power by upto a third. Patients with heart failure saw an increase between 26-34% in the amount of blood pumped by the heart".

[Allyson1]

From the article you linked, this part stood out to me in particular:

"our gut microbes are responsible for producing around a quarter of our vitamins and a third of our blood metabolites and also respond to changes in vitamin levels picked up by receptors in our gut lining. Any artificial addition of large amounts of chemicals will upset some sensitive immune processes"

I can't help but think about the sudden increase in diarrhea, sinus infections, and skin infections some of us experience with high dose B12. Is it really detox?

[Treepie]

Like that new spelling.I suppose personalised medicine will get there after our time.

[Allyson1]

I just wonder if b12 megadoses don't have the potential to increase infections...

It wasn't short-lived, so I had stopped the b12, and that's when the nerve damage happened..

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Epic,

There is research for a microbe producing Vit C. 

There was a previously published paper that claimed human gut commensal produced vitamins and ascorbate was included. Unfortunately it was not substantiated for Vit C but was for other.

I love that those of us with an MTHFR polymorphisms can take/make Lactobacillus strains to produce the active methylated form of folate — 5-methylenetetrahydrofolate. 

The author of your article Fearless Parent has done his own research in Vit C being made in the body but unfortunately I can't remember where I read this..

There is also much research into probiotics reducing not only gut inflammation but other in the body. We are what we eat..