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The IOM Miscalculated Its RDA For Vitamin D
The true RDA for vitamin D is about 10 times higher than the IOM has said – not a small error. Read on to understand
March 18, 2024
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The true RDA for vitamin D is about 10 times higher than the IOM has said – not a small error. Read on to understand
Dr. Heaney explains how it was that the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force found the evidence in support of vitamin D supplementation inconclusive, while vitamin D
Dr. Heaney describes two additional physiology-based approaches to defining “normal” nutrient status – something that the currently employed phenomenological approach cannot do Key Points Nutrition
For all nutrients for which we can define a plateau, the determination of the nutrient requirement follows directly from these behaviors; an intake sufficient to
From a physiological set-point perspective, ‘normal’ vitamin D status would be a 25(OH)D concentration that requires little or no compensatory PTH response under basal conditions,
Fortunately there are alternative approaches that could be used and that have clear parallels in other fields of medical physiology Key Points We say an
Dr. Robert Heaney left us on August 6, 2016, and some time after his passing, his blog site at Creighton University was taken down; GrassrootsHealth is