Is Your Doctor Doing you a Disservice by Prescribing you Vitamin D?

Vitamin D has been in the news for the last year or so. New research has shown that the levels once thought to be beneficial are too low. Now you can go to your Doctor and get a prescription of a 50,000 unit you can take once a week. Unfortunately the type of D your doctor will give you a prescription for will not do the job.

Caroline Hoester a biomedical researcher and an avid user of Shaklee products comments on D3 levels below:

 The Random Control Trials show ONLY natural D3 will do the job, but doctors are prescribing D2 which the macrophages do not accept to do their work in the body and 50,000 IU when doctors are always telling us not to take large doses!  Hypocrites!

In any case, they have not proven that the synthetic D works in making bones stronger where natural D3 has shown that it does.  The macrophages clean up debris, diseases, etc. and can also fight against serious diseases when the range reaches 90 which is what we are suggesting to everyone to do. Most recommend 30 ng/ml but that is just basic and you do not have a high enough level for any cure care at this level.  If you are fighting a disease  90 ng/ml  is a better level of D3 .

So I take my Vita Lea, OsteoMatrix and 2 Shaklee D3 daily because it is inexpensive insurance with a big return.  The ergocalciferol that is prescribed cannot do this but makes doctors feel good.

Editor’s note: If you are taking Shaklee Vitalizer you will have 2 of the shaklee Vita Lea (multi-mineral vitamin in the bubble pack)

Below is a testimony of two people and their results with Doctor prescribed Vitamin D and one on the Natural Shaklee D product:

Hi !My name is Tom Leenheer.

In May of 2010 my wife Cathy had her annual physical at our family physician‘s, Dr. Paul Rich. When her blood work came back, he pointed out that she was low in VitaminD. This was a new test that they were including in the blood work for the first time that year. He wrote a prescription for a Vitamin D capsule for her to start taking. She began to take this prescription tablet of 50,000 IU once a week. She was faithful in taking this prescription for the whole year plus until her next physical. She was late in having her physical and blood work in 2011. When she finally got into the office it was September.

She had now been taking this prescription Vitamin D capsule for 16 months. The result was positive. The reading on her 25-Hydrox-Vitamin D in May of 2010 had been 18 ng/mL. The Optimal Range was 30-100. The Intermediate Risk Range was 15-29. The High Risk Range was 14 or lower. After 16 months of the 50,000 IU capsules once a week, her Vitamin D level rose from 18 to 30.

Meanwhile, when I went for my annual physical and blood work in June 2010, my Vitamin D level also showed up low. It was at 20, so I too was in the Intermediate Risk Range. Dr. Rich suggested the Vitamin D prescription for me also, but I told him that I would rather try a different approach. I then started on Shaklee’s Vitamin D supplement. I began to add one 1000 IU Shaklee Vita-D to my normal daily Vita-Lea (2). Thus I was getting 12,600 IU of Vitamin D a week from my Shaklee supplements compared to my wife’s 50,000 IU in a prescription capsule. I too was faithful in taking my supplements daily until my annual physical and blood work in 2011. I had that blood work completed in June, one year after the previous blood work.

I was happy to find that my Vitamin D level had rose from 20 to 31. So my Shaklee supplements had basically the same results for me as the prescription had for my wife, but with a substantially less intake of Vitamin D.

I wonder why ???? I think we all know. Plus, it cost less for me to add the Shaklee Vita-D to my daily routine than it did for my wife to pay for her prescription capsules.

One last note. We live in Warren Ohio where we only see about 150 sunny days a year. Neither of us changed our diet or daily routines during the year. My wife spends her days as a nurse doing consulting flying weekly to hospitals throughout the US. I have an income tax preparation business and spend an awful lot of time in my office.

                                                                                                                     Tom Leenheer

 

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