Safe and Effective Since 2011, researchers in South Carolina have shown that vitamin D serum levels of 40-60 ng/ml (100-150 nmol/L) during pregnancy are safe and effective. Safe – no kidney stones, no hypercalcemia,...
August 24, 2016 If you know that most women of childbearing age are vitamin D deficient, it starts to make sense that they wouldn’t have the vitamin D available to pass on in their...
June 16, 2016 We are very excited to launch a Protect Our Children NOW! in Montana at the Western Montana Clinic (WMC). Vitamin D testing and supplementation will be available at no cost to...
June 9, 2016 …. the March of Dimes needs us to implement what is known about vitamin D while they continue to research the various biological causes of preterm births! Their work is certainly...
April 6, 2016 Today, April 6, 2016, is the release of a truly definitive paper about vitamin D and cancer. In 2007, I read a paper by Lappe et al. and, cried. It was...
January 27, 2016 How do we get information to make decisions about public health from randomized controlled trials (RCT’s)? Can we? Especially for nutrient trials? At this point, we have seen so many problems...
December 16, 2015 It’s happening! Your participation in the D*action project as well as the implementation of our Protect our Children NOW! project in South Carolina at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC)...
November 12, 2015 This week I am so honored to announce a new paper that clearly shows the >50% reduction in risk of preterm birth with a vitamin D serum level of at least...
September 10, 2015 EVERY new prenatal patient at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) will now be screened for vitamin D deficiency, and, they will have recommended supplementation to get their 25(OH)D serum...