June 11, 2017
5.0 out of 5 stars A very impressive and interesting book with practical information.By Tsang-Hsiung,Lin on June 6, 2014
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The book is very attractive because it includes all the details that the author followed to improve his own health, so that we can follow easily.His hypothesis is quite impressive and reasonable that for a patient with low back pain like me, I am so eager to try his method(even though I am a doctor,I could not cure my low back pain).I find it works in the past few days and I will check my blood level and follow closely the result. It seems promising.
C Booth 2 years ago
Those of us who live in northern climates and suffer allergies that prevent us from spending significant time outside are not being told by our doctors the consequences of a Vitamin deficiency to our health. I suffered many health problems for YEARS that were a direct result of low Vit. D. All the blood work I’ve had done never showed that, and I was constantly being prescribed another pill that didn’t really help. After a nurse told me to try a high dose of Vit. D, I started to feel better within a week.
I won’t go through the list of all the health problems, but the one that clued the nurse in that I might be Vit D deficient was being sick all winter long. It would start with a cold at first frost that I couldn’t kick, and by Christmas it would be bronchitis that would require breathing treatments and rescue inhalers, (not to mention the numerous rounds of steroids and antibiotics that I would need to get through a winter) just in time for my grass allergy to kick in when the mowing started in Spring.
Within a week of taking 20,000 IU per day, my bronchitis was gone, and I felt better than I had in ages. While you may be able to spend enough time in the sun to get an adequate amount of Vit D, for those of us who are truly deficient in the vitamin, we would have to roast ourselves daily and still not get enough to repair the damage of years of deficiency.
While I am very cautious of taking mega doses of vitamins, I investigate the possible side effects and make an educated decision. No one will take my health and well being more seriously than I do, and it is ultimately my responsibility to. I am grateful for books like this that give me more information and tell me of others experiences to help me make those decisions.