See today’s video review above and last night’s video review at the link directly below—both are on the same theme of Vitamin D Guidelines for Healthy Children and Adults (JAMA 2025)
Their errors and my corrections
Error: "A vitamin is something that our bodies cannot make."Correction: This is an irrelevant definition that skips the function of vitamins; this definition is wrong because the body can make several vitamins including lipoic acid and niacin; this definition ignores the important concept of conditionally essential nutrients which has been established for at least 25 years; they are also ignoring the concept of Biochemical Individuality that Roger Williams published more than 70 years ago.
Error: Food sources except for fish liver oil are inadequate for the provision of vitamin D in amounts required for meeting the physiologic requirements of adults at 3,000-5,000 IU per day established by Heaney et al Am J Clin Nutr 2003 and Vasquez et al Altern Ther Health Med 2004
Error: Editor denigrates people as taking vitamin D supplements "empirically" as if they don't have evidence. Correction: The data on the value of routine vitamin D supplementation has been established for at least 21 years (Vasquez et al Altern Ther Health Med 2004) and continues to get stronger
Error: They are at least 15 years behind the research in their claim that 25ohD is simply the storage form of vitamin D. Correction: 25ohD accounts for most of the biological activity of vitamin D at the receptor
Error by omission: They only mention cathelicidin as a mechanism of vD-mediated immunomodulation. Correction: vD plays many roles in anti-infection defense, immunomodulation, anti-inflammation, and downregulation of viral replication; see my 2001 video review
Error: Over emphasis on statistics when they have not even discussed proper dosing. Correction: vD effects are dose-dependent therefore any mention of effect has to be contextualized per the dose and duration and serum response of the treatment. Dosage too high, dosage too low, and delayed administration are some of the most common strategies to corrupt nutrition research.
Error: Medical authors corrupt the conversation on nutrition by routinely ignoring basic Pharmacology. Correction: Such absurd ignorance of basic pharmacology knowledge would never be permitted in discussions on drugs but is a common strategy in the negation of nutrition to make the field appear unscientific and mysterious.
Error: Clinical guidelines omitted key data in physiology and clinical trials to obfuscate the topic. Correction: Such unprofessional behavior and omissions of important data is scandalous.
Error: They admit to using "average weighted dose and duration" which is a strategy to skew the conclusion toward inefficacy because most or many of the studies will have used too short a dose for too short a duration. Correction: They need to be looking at quality of data and not just lumping everything together in order to strategically overlook the importance of dose, duration, and serum response.
Error: They strategically exclude data showing the importance of optimized serum 25ohD levels so that they can create the false illusion that laboratory testing is unworthwhile. Correction: The clinical data supporting optimized serum 25ohD levels is sufficient, consistent and actionable.
Error: The major goals of medical reviews on nutrition are confusion and inaction. Correction: They should perform competent reviews of the literature with appropriate clinical contextualization. The major medical organizations and journals use a wide range of tactics to confuse the topic of nutrition, with the major goals being indifference, inaction, confusion and repulsion in order to keep the population of patients and doctors sick and uninformed and therefore dependent on drugs and injections.
Here is the citation
Gillman MW, Fu LY. Vitamin D Guidelines in Primary Care. JAMA.2025;333(20):1779–1780. doi:10.1001/jama.2025.5544
Here is my personal copy with a few highlights and notes
Here is a compilation of most of my published articles and additional notes on vitamin D
Here is what they should have shown people so that doctors would take action
VITAMIN D (Goldmine1) in CHRONIC PAIN: Deficiency, Supplementation, Mechanisms, Synergy
See video embedded above for my 2021 review of the role of Vitamin D Deficiency/Supplementation in Chronic Pain
VITAMIN D (Goldmine2) in MOOD, DEPRESSION, ANXIETY, and BRAIN FUNCTION: Deficiency, Supplementation, Mechanisms, Synergy
See video embedded above for my 2021 review of the role of Vitamin D Deficiency/Supplementation in MOOD, DEPRESSION, ANXIETY, and BRAIN FUNCTION
VITAMIN D (Goldmine3) in BARRIER DEFENSE AGAINST INFECTION, INFLAMMATION, ALLERGY: Deficiency, Supplementation, Mechanisms, Synergy
See video embedded above for my 2021 review of the role of Vitamin D Deficiency/Supplementation in BARRIER DEFENSE AGAINST INFECTION, INFLAMMATION, ALLERGY
VITAMIN D (Goldmine4) in INFLAMMATION and IMMUNOMODULATION: Deficiency, Supplementation, Mechanisms, Synergy
See video embedded above for my 2021 review of the role of Vitamin D Deficiency/Supplementation in INFLAMMATION and IMMUNOMODULATION
VITAMIN D (Goldmine5) in Antimicrobial Antiviral Defense against Clinically Important Viral Infections
See video embedded above for “VITAMIN D (Goldmine5) in Antimicrobial and Antiviral Defense against Clinically Important Viral Infections”
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