Low Vitamin D is worse for your health than smoking

Vitamin D Deficiency is worse than smoking	Vitamin D Deficiency	Smoking
Increase in a health problem	19 X Dementia 60 X Rickets 55 X Surgery after bone fracture 23 X Vertigo	23 X Lung Cancer
Cause of premature death each year in US	400,000 5X more likely to survive Lung Cancer if high Vit D	480,000 (CDC)
Causes of problem	1) Less Sunlight 2) Less D in Food 3) Less Magnesium 4) Lower Omega-3 index	Tobacco
Associated with top causes of death	10 of the top 11	6 of top 11
Number of PubMed studies before US consensus	>29,000	7,000
Number of associated diseases	> 300	39
The number of randomized controlled trials which have confirmed the problem	> 600	0 trials found
Perhaps 30 years from problem indication until US consensus	1990 - 2020?	1934-1964

Smoking reduces vitamin D
Increasing Vitamin D decreases health problems due to smoking
Vitamin D appears to reduce the need to smoke
Smoking reduces vitamin D levels by 9 ng
Both 2nd-hand and 3rd-hand smoke reduces vitamin D levels
Both VDD and Smoking cause fetus and infant problems - including death
Infant VDD worse than 2nd-hand smoke
Avoiding the Sun is Just as Dangerous as Cigarettes - video March 2024
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3 to 55 X more likely to have these health problems if low Vitamin D
4,000 IU of Vitamin D is OK - 19 organizations agree - 2018
4,200,000,000,000 dollars for wellness – Oct 2018 people spend a lot of money to become or stay healthy
Vitamin D levels have been crashing, RDA is not keeping up
Polish Children + US Military (SOF)

>30% of males in Russia, Indonesia, China, Bangladesh, Boliva ... still smoke

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