Don Smith

FYI To Ask Don's Army:

Millions of women in the USA (including my bride) are, understandably, confused about the startling information contained in the HRT (hormone replacement therapy) report. [Note: In case you have been living in a cave, the government just reported that the "risks" of HRT outweighed the "benefits" and (1) recommended that all women taking HRT talk to their OB/GYN, and more importantly, (2) stopped the "clinical trial" two years ahead of time because of the increased risk to the participants.

Here's what the study found.

1. The "benefits" of preventing osteoporosis can be accomplished by "less risky" means including UVR exposure, taking calcium supplements and participating in a "weight bearing" excercise program.

2. Not only was there no benefit regarding the prevention of coronary heart disease, there was an increased risk of CHD and strokes!

3. There was a "statically significant" increase in the incidence of breast cancer.

4. There was a staticstically significant" increase in the incidence of cervical cancer.

The frightening thing (and the lesson to be learned by the indoor tanning industry) is that 11 years ago a "warning" was made about HRT by respectable, responsible physicians that EXACTLY PREDICTED the current situation!

Why were these warnings ignored?

Because the pharmaceutical companies who sell $60 billion of HRT products EACH YEAR (that's right, 60 billion dollars!) also spend $3 billion each year "advertising and promoting" these products. They spent zero dollars studying the safety and effectiveness of their products; the HRT study was paid for by the American taxpayers!

So, what is the "lesson" for us, you ask?

The same thing is going on (on a smaller scale) by (1) the sunscreen industry (who sell products that are intended to "mimic" facultative pigmentation, better known as a "tan") and their "allies" the anti-tanning segment of the dermatology community, and, (2) by the companies (and their "allies" the anti-tanning segment of the dermatology community) who are desparately trying to find a vitamin D analog (prescription product) that will work as well as the vitamin D produced by the action of UVR on the skin.

Now do you see why our industy is being attacked?

Now do you see who the REAL enemies are?

And now some questions that we MUST answer.

1. What is "in it" for the anti-tanning segment of the dermatology community in this?

2. Are they being "subsidized" by the sunscreen and pharmaceutical industries?

3. How do we find out what is going on?

The "lesson" to be learned from the HRT study is that ethics go by the wayside when large amounts of money is involved. Millions of women were "encouraged" to take dangerous HRT products even though the manufacturers knew, or ought to have known, that their products were dangerous.

Thus, considering how much money is made by the sunscreen industry and considering how much money CAN BE MADE by a company coming up with a vitamin D product that is a good as the UVR-induced form, is it any wonder that our industry is being attacked?

More on this subject later!

Don "Who Sees What We Must Do!" Smith

solarmeter

Food Sources of Vitamin D
USDA databases compiled in the 1980s list the following foods as rich in vitamin D. The amounts given are for 100 grams or about 3 1/2 ounces. These figures demonstrate the difficulty in obtaining 4,000 IU vitamin D per day from ordinary foods in the American diet. Three servings of herring, oysters, catfish, mackerel or sardines plus generous amounts of butter, egg yolk, lard or bacon fat and 2 teaspoons cod liver oil (500 iu per teaspoon) yield about 4,000 IU vitamin D—a very rich diet indeed!

Cod Liver Oil
Lard (Pork Fat)
Atlantic Herring (Pickled)
Eastern Oysters (Steamed)
Catfish (Steamed/Poached)
Skinless Sardines (Water Packed)
Mackerel (Canned/Drained)
Smoked Chinook Salmon
Sturgeon Roe
Shrimp (Canned/Drained)
Egg Yolk (Fresh)
(One yolk contains about 24 IU)
Butter
Lamb Liver (Braised)
Beef Tallow
Pork Liver (Braised)
Beef Liver (Fried)
Beef Tripe (Raw)
Beef Kidney (Simmered)
Chicken Livers (Simmered)
Small Clams (Steamed/Cooked Moist)
Blue Crab (Steamed)
Crayfish/Crawdads (Steamed)
Northern Lobster (Steamed)
10,000
2,800
680
642
500
480
450
320
232
172
148

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20
19
12
12
12
12
12
8
4
4
4

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The Many Forms of Vitamin D
There are two types of vitamin D found in nature. Vitamin D2 is formed by the action of UV-B on the plant precursor ergosterol. It is found in plants and in was formerly added to irradiated cows milk. Most milk today contains D3. Vitamin D3 or cholecalciferol is found in animal foods. Both forms of vitamin D have been used successfully to treat rickets and other diseases related to vitamin D insufficiency.

Many consider D3 the preferred vitamin, having more biologic activity. Vitamin D3 as found in food or in human skin always comes with various metabolites or isomers that may have biological benefit. Dr. Price believed that there were as many as 12 metabolites or isomers in the vitamin D found in animal foods. When vitamin D is taken in the form of fish oil, or eaten in foods such as eggs or fish, these metabolites will be present. Both D2 and D3 can be toxic when taken inappropriately in large amounts.

When humans take in vitamin D from food or sunlight, it is converted first in the liver to the form 25(OH)D and then in the kidney to 1,25(OH)D. These active forms of vitamin D are available by prescription and are given to patients with liver or kidney failure or those with an hereditary metabolic defect in vitamin-D conversion.



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Source: http://westonaprice.org/vitamins/nutrition_vitaminD.html

solarmeter

Sooo - for type 2 skin how many IUs if vitamin D result from, say:

15 min of 500 uW/cm^2 UVB? (0.50 mW/cm^2)

Steve

Neon Beach

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