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Article: Doctor preaches wonder cure: Vitamin D; Minnesota's own evangelist is using the nutrient to teach a different approach to medicine.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- September 21, 2008
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Byline: JOSEPHINE MARCOTTY; STAFF WRITER
The young man was back in the hospital again. Flare-ups from his sickle-cell disease have put him there repeatedly over the years, and he's only 25. This time, though, something was different. Sunlight streamed across his bed as Dr. Greg Plotnikoff held his hand and gently asked if the new pills were working.
"I'm feeling stronger," the patient said, nodding eagerly.
It wasn't the newest pharmaceutical that brightened the young African immigrant's eyes with hope. It was what Plotnikoff heralds as the single most cost-effective medical intervention in America today: Good old-fashioned vitamin D. There is ...