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Vitamin D Guidelines and Deficiency

This chapter discusses the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in northern latitudes and the speaker's disagreement with official guidelines. The NICE guidelines recommend only 400 IU/day of vitamin D, focusing on rickets and bone issues. The speaker believes everyone should have their vitamin D levels measured and titrated. Vitamin K2 may have benefits but is not necessary with moderate vitamin D doses like 4000 IU/day.

Chương này thảo luận về sự phổ biến của tình trạng thiếu vitamin D ở các vĩ độ phía bắc và sự bất đồng của diễn giả với các hướng dẫn chính thức. Hướng dẫn của NICE chỉ khuyến nghị 400 IU/ngày vitamin D, tập trung vào bệnh còi xương và các vấn đề về xương. Diễn giả cho rằng mọi người nên được đo và điều chỉnh nồng độ vitamin D. Vitamin K2 có thể có lợi ích nhưng không cần thiết với liều vitamin D vừa phải như 4000 IU/ngày.

what a warm welcome to this talk now so many people have asked me to do a video where I include vitamin d and vitamin K and especially vitamin K2 so that's what this is about now if you haven't got time to watch it I'll try and give you a bit of a bottom line although it's very difficult on this kind of video because it's a bit complicated really but um if you've been watching this

channel you'll be in no doubt about the potential benefits of vitamin D and the fact that in the cold overcast Northern latitudes we're often deficient of it because of the vast majority of it comes from the sunshine so vitamin D that's what we're talking about we'll just look at a couple of guidelines on that as well because there's some interesting things on that

but then the other question is should we be taking vitamin K2 with it the answer to this seems to be that vitamin K2 is associated with quite a few beneficial effects so it should certainly be part of a healthy diet but taking moderate amounts of vitamin D as I do I'm currently taking 4 000 units a day actually the evidence is not suggesting that it is necessary for me

to take vitamin K2 with my three or four thousand international units of vitamin D that I take a day over the winter but it may be beneficial for other things there's a more of a sort of a gray area with higher levels of vitamin D but of course you wouldn't be taking high levels of vitamin D you'd only be self-medicating on Lower doses you'd only be taking high levels if you're a

supervisor by your own doctor in which case he would be advising you and supervising you and of course it goes without saying that you never take medical advice from me you always go to your own doctor now having got that out the way let's move swiftly on so here we see um uh um covid-19 rapid guidelines of vitamin D from the National Institute of Health and Care excellence

now this obviously is excellent because it's got excellence in the title so uh called nice of course and basically it's still saying so I read this with some excitement I thought oh they've got their act together put us on the 17th of December 2020 but basically it's saying uh same old same old it's talking about the 400 units a day and slightly different amounts for

different age groups and things so do peruse that with disappointment as I did um so um they're just on vitamin D National Institute for Health and Care Excellence like that one basically it's saying consider 400 international units 10 micrograms per day very low dose so consider taking that and it gives a few provisos but that's basically it's still saying take the same amount

but then I looked at uh there's various NHS sites this one happens to be from mid Essex check it out for yourself it's in the on the web it's publicly available and let's look at that now this one slightly more interesting it's actually written for uh prescribers and doctors and people like that primarily but it's talking about vitamin D deficiency and prescription guidelines

um now um it talks there about lifestyle you can read this for yourself but here we have these flow charts now these flow charts are really popular in in modern Healthcare and I must say they are remarkably useful because you can kind of follow them through without knowing too much about the subject and get to a good result so um patients with high risk factors that may increase risk of vitamin D

deficiency or a patient at a higher risk of having low vitamin D status at risk group right so if they're in that group basically they're saying here does the patient have symptoms indicative of rickets osteomalacia sort of bone thin in thinning or symptomatic low blood calcium levels or symptoms of rickets including uh tetany leg bowing knock knees anterior bowing of the thigh bone of the femur

painful wrist swelling softening of the score spinal curvature bones I mean I could go on but basically it's um it's focusing on rickets which we've known about for about 100 years now no mention of reduced immunity or autoimmunity or heart disease or cancer of the colon or cancer of the prostate or depression or unexplained aches or pains or multiple sclerosis or the other

correlates that may well be associated with vitamin d none of that um so just focusing on those things there and then it does go on to make recommendations and it says here if the vitamin D uh this is the uh this is the serum vitamin D the vitamin D and the blood of it's less than 39 moles per liter it gives a treatment option here of oral capsules 40 000 units colic

calciferol weekly for seven weeks and there's various other flow charts with what to do and the other ones work out giving if the levels are higher it basically it works after giving the 400 units one that we know about so um routine screening of vitamin D levels and prescribing a vitamin D is not advised advisable according to this so it's not too it's not too worried about it as a routine

let me give you my view on this um I think everyone in the country should have their vitamin D levels measured as a measure of some urgency actually I think and they're their vitamin D levels should be titrated uh according to those according to those levels that's what that's what I would that's what I would think but that's not what this protocol is saying both clinical symptoms and risk factors

must be present before measuring vitamin D levels in other words this appears to be actually discouraging GPS from checking vitamin D levels so um if I was the teacher marking this I think I'd probably give that across and I'd probably give that across having said that people reading these guidelines have to do it they don't have any choice because these are the

Official Guidelines and if a doctor was in contravention of the guidelines that then potentially that's not a good situation for him or her um so they're the guidelines as yet there is no clear evidence to prove the risk from non-symptomatic vitamin D deficiency okay proves a big word but I'm not sure I would agree with that I think there's evidence that suggests to the contrary

in academic essays we always tell students to be tentative it could be suggested that from this it could be reasonably inferred a possible implication of this is because until we have definitive answers we don't have definitive answers and I'm afraid we don't have answers that definitive I believe with vitamin D which suffers this accumulation of evidence anyway

um adults uh adults if their vitamin D is less than 30 nanomoles per liter which is 12 nanograms per ml or what capsules are 40 000 units that's uh for 40 000 units that's the thousand micrograms or one milligram of colic alcohol and that's the way they spell it that's vitamin D3 they're spelled in a strange way I wouldn't have I would have spelled it with an H but there you go

um weekly for seven weeks it is what that is what they're saying very similar to um colleagues in India um whose doctors have been prescribing them uh 60 000 units a week for six weeks to top them up uh difference being in India they've been doing that without measuring the blood levels but I agree measuring the blood levels is good so that makes sense if it's very low but to me these

are really remarkably low levels less than 13 animals per liter or 12 nanograms per Mill very low levels I would be very uncomfortable with patients or meet me at that level um so it's talking about giving these doses um in contrast the nice guidelines are saying 2 800 units per week so the treatment dose there is 40 000 units the nice guidelines for maintenance is 2800

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