As Nutritional Science Skyrockets Ahead, Some US Medical Associations Seem to Be Looking Backward... will they turn to salt?
Vitamin D confusion in testing and treating. Statement by Endocrine Society.
During the pandemic, the critical role of vitamin D in the protection against getting severe Covid was made clear. Yet we did not hear common sense recommendations from our “experts” to test and or to treat if vitamin D levels were found insufficient (low).
Vitamin D was so essential in helping our bodies “fight” Covid, some were saying that if your vitamin D level was very low you had a statistically increased chance of ending up in the ICU. And of being intubated.
African Americans had a rougher time with Covid, on the whole. Their darker skin makes it inherently harder to start the process of absorbing Vitamin D from the sun.
Now the Endocrine Society has come out with official Vitamin D practice guidelines that seem shocking.
Makes some of us wonder if we need to add disclaimers about testing and treating with vitamin D, like we do with other hormones. Once lawyers latch onto this, who knows?
Vitamin D is a pro-hormone.
Vitamin D is BOTH:
A vitamin (need to take it regularly, as our own bodies can’t make it)
And, a hormone (it can signal genes).
Hormones are the most powerful tools in our body.
Hormones are certainly our most powerful anti-aging tools.
Even with my dental woes, which are severe, I still kayaked yesterday and then went to a Dave Asprey Bio-Hacking Brunch yesterday. With a bunch of amazing young agile thinkers. One young man in his twenties had already been studying Sanskrit for 12 years. Wow. True thinkers!
They just came from Dave’s yearly Bio-Hacking Convention in Dallas. All on anti-aging.
But when asked, they shared that there were no speakers in their 70’s or 80’s (proof is in the pudding I might venture to say).
Also, no one mentioned hormones.
Why? Even many of these thinkers - were “weary” of hormones.
Hormones, especially estrogen in women, have been vilified.
There is FDA approved testosterone for gents, but not for ladies.
It’s all a mush. It’s been this way since the July 2002 and we still don’t seem to have our feet out of the mud and on solid terra firma.
Who is the Endocrine Society?
For 100 years, the Endocrine Society, say they in their own journal, has been at the forefront of hormone science and public health.
Read about our history and how we continue to serve the endocrine community.
I remember lecturing with the amazing OBGYN doc Eldred Taylor MD once. He said the hardest lecture he ever gave was to endocrinologists. They almost threw tomatoes at him as he spoke of the amazing results of prescribing bioidentical hormones (BHRT). And the importance of measuring free T3 and reverse T3. The Endocrine Society does not support these practices that are basic in functional medicine.
Drs. Brownstein and Taylor both say they will never speak for this organization again. It has such harsh anti-functional medicine viewpoints.
Well, here they come with those viewpoints on Vitamin D.