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Article: Facts Every Health Care Professional Needs to Know About Vitamin D
- Article from:
- Dynamic Chiropractic
- Article date:
- April 23, 2005
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Vitamin D first caught my eye in 2003 when I noticed it had been removed from many protein bars and meal-replacement protein drink mixes due to an FDA order. At the time, I thought I would look into vitamin D toxicity as a possible cause, although I cannot recall ever having a patient with hypervitaminosis D in my 18 years of practice. I was very worried that I had possibly missed or overlooked this problem. That is why I wrote, "PDA's Crackdown on Vitamin D Is Troubling,"1 two years ago.
When I researched that article, it was very apparent that there was a growing problem with vitamin D. However, the problem I found was not excessive vitamin D, but the opposite: a deficiency that is ...