As the New York Times attacks vitamin D, whooping cough โ easily prevented with the low-cost nutrient โ is making a comeback across America
The New York Times is on a mission: Get people to believe that at least 80 percent of them have normal vitamin D levels; that the nutrient is only important in the prevention of rickets in children and osteomalacia (a softening of the bones) in adults; that normal levels of vitamin D are anything above 20 nanograms per milliliter; and that one man โ Dr. Michael Holick โ has single-handedly convinced everybody that they need more of the hormone than they really do, all so that he can make lots of money.
Dr. Holick is a highly respected Boston University endocrinologist whose work has been published in multiple journals, including the esteemed New England Journal of Medicine. He was also responsible for overseeing the publication of a report published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism on behalf of the Endocrine Society, which is the group that produces the guidelines followed nationally by hospitals, doctors and commercial labs. Despite these credentials, The Times paints him as a quack on a mission to make money off scaremongering.
The Times quotes doctors and researchers who for their own reasons โ no doubt linked to Big Pharma โ insist that Dr. Holickโs enthusiasm for vitamin D is โextreme.โ Yet, The Times fails to note that since vitamin D is a hormone, it is the Endocrine Society, and its leaders like Dr. Holick, who are the experts in the field and should be consulted when determining the necessary levels of this hormone.
Why does it matter? Well, because only one group can be correct. Either a large proportion of the population is deficient in a hormone and is suffering the health consequences, or the problem has been overstated by people who are simply in it for the money. If Dr. Holick and his colleagues are correct โ and the science certainly backs them up โ it would go a long way towards explaining why diseases which have all but died out in recent years, including whooping cough, have been making a quiet comeback in recent years.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-09-04-as-the-new-york-times-attacks-vitamin-d-whooping-cough-making-a-comeback.html