Is Vitamin D Dangerous?

I was not scheduled to publish this topic in my blog today, but I felt the need to do so.

Many times throughout the history of science and medicine, there have been studies and hypothesis that have been proven to be flat out wrong.

Here Are Two Great Examples:

1. The Lipid Hypothesis that was perpetrated by Ancel Keys, Ph.D, claimed that saturated fat caused cardiovascular disease and premature death.

America bought into this false hypothesis hook, line and sinker. Keys manipulated data to produce this outright lie, which landed him on the cover of Time magazine on January 13, 1961. Soon after that, margarine became the "Queen of America"!

On June 23, 2014, Time had a new cover, declaring butter the healthy alternative to margarine. It only took 53 years to get to the truth.

2. In 1991, the World Health Organization declared a possible link between cancer and drinking coffee. In June 2016, the World Health Organization announced that coffee may prevent at least 2 types of cancer and other research indicates coffee may also help to prevent diabetes. This is another about-face.

In that same month, June 2016, another study came out stating that it isn't the coffee, but drinking any liquid, even water that is over 149 degrees F. that can burn the esophagus and lead to esophageal cancer. Coffee was just an innocent bystander, falsely accused.

Similar situations have occurred with red wine and with eggs, which both went from the villain status to the hero status, in the blink of an eye.

Things Are Not Always What They Appear To Be:

The truth is out there, but many times it takes a long time for the truth to emerge.

Now we come to the topic of the day!

The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) is one of the most respected medical publications on the planet. This isn't Page Six of The Post!

JAMA is a peer-reviewed medical journal, which is published 48 times a year by the American Medical Association. JAMA publishes original research, reviews and editorials covering all aspects of the biomedical sciences. JAMA was established in 1883.

An analysis of 39,243 participants was published 2 days ago in JAMA, which concluded that adults taking more than 4,000 IU of vitamin D a day, increased their risk of abnormally high blood calcium levels, as well as calcification of the heart, kidneys, soft tissues and blood vessels.

For years I have emphasized that if you don't take vitamin K2, along with your vitamin D3 and calcium, all of those bad things can occur and will occur.

Vitamin K was discovered in 1929. In the 1950s, 10 varieties of vitamin K2 were isolated. The most commonly used in supplements are the MK7 version, from plant sources and the MK7 4 version, from animal sources.

Dr. Weston Price was a famous dentist and nutritionist, who traveled the world and was amazed by the healthy teeth that he found when he studied indigenous tribes. Vitamin K2 wasn't discovered yet, but he praised this unknown nutrient and called it “Activator X”. In the 1950s Activator X was named vitamin K2. The ten varieties of vitamin K2 were discovered and isolated. The most commonly used varieties in supplements are the MK7 version from plant sources and the MK7 4 version from animal sources.

In my opinion, the best ratio is if you take 10 micrograms of the MK7 version of vitamin K2 with every 1,000 IU of vitamin D3. If you do that, the calcium should go to the bones and teeth, where it belongs and not into the heart, kidneys, soft tissues and blood vessels, where calcium doesn't belong.

Another interesting fact is that statin drugs, such as Lipitor and Crestor, are taken to lower cholesterol and to reduce the likelihood of atherosclerosis, which is fatty plaque that forms on the arterial walls. Arteriosclerosis is when that plaque hardens with calcium.

The piece of the puzzle that is usually missing, is that statin drugs rob the body of vitamin K2. When vitamin K2 is low, calcium tends to deposit more on the arterial walls. Anyone taking statins should then increase their vitamin K2 intake, so they don't cause what they are trying to prevent.

The exception to this is if they are on blood thinners, since all forms of vitamin K can thicken the blood. According to Dr. Stephen Sinatra, who is a world famous cardiologist, if you take vitamin K2 with Coumadin, it can actually cause more deposition of calcium in the arteries.

The good news is that there are ways to thin the blood naturally, without Coumadin. By the way, if you don't know this, Coumadin is also a rat poison. The only problem with this natural alternative, is that it isn't within what is defined as the medical "standard of care". So even if your doctor knew what to do, which most don't since they are never taught natural alternatives, your doctor could get into hot water helping you to get off dangerous blood thinners. The side effects of these blood thinners can eventually be organ failure.

Many alternative doctors know how to do this, but are reluctant to do so, for potential liability reasons. If for some reason the patient's health took a turn for the worse, they might be inadvertently blamed.

It is amazing to me that this JAMA article was published and no mention was made about vitamin K2.

The truth will become common knowledge some day, but that day is not today.

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