cheapest source is sunlight. B12 basically consists of microbes living in your mouth and gut. There is no
need to look for other sources of vitamins.
Hidden Perils Of Vitamin Pills
Vitamins D And A
Calciferol, known as vitamin D, is not a vitamin in the real sense since the body is capable of
producing it itself. With the help of UV light from the sun, the body synthesizes it from cholesterol (7-
dehydrocholesterol) in the human skin. Vitamin D, which acts rather like a hormone than a vitamin,
facilitates the absorption and utilization of calcium and phosphorus, necessary for maintaining strong
bones and teeth. Although vitamin D levels cannot be influenced through diet, the official nutritional
textbooks speak of 2.5 μg daily requirement for adults. Babies and breast milk are supposed to have the
biggest deficiencies in vitamin D, implying that nature made a crucial mistake when it invented breast
milk. Mothers are warned that, without taking extra amounts of this important vitamin, their babies could
risk rickets or bone deformation.
Yet mothers are rarely informed about the risks they take when they overuse vitamin D. Vitamin D
poisoning leads to something very similar to rickets. Professor Ernst Lindner from the University of
Giessen in Germany has warned that if large amounts of vitamin D are given to a person, calcium is
removed from the bones; and this can cause bone deformation. He also states that it is very risky to add
vitamin D to food.
Bone deformation is more likely to occur in babies who are not breast-fed. Until the expensive vitamin
D pill came on the market, rickets was effectively treated with breast milk, and I might add, for thousands
of years.
Nature deemed it necessary to supply mother’s milk with only very little vitamin D. As studies have
shown, the amount of vitamin D in mother’s milk does not increase when the mother takes vitamin D
supplements. This proves that a mother’s body filters out vitamin D to protect the baby from being
poisoned (by the vitamin). A baby’s body easily synthesizes vitamin D from sunlight once it is exposed to
it. Since being exposed to natural sunlight is one of the most natural needs humans are born with, it is,
therefore, unnecessary to have this vitamin present in the mother's milk. Just like plants need sunlight to
grow, humans need sunlight as well. The major cause of vitamin D deficiency among babies is keeping
them in dark rooms with little or no natural light. But even with less than adequate sun exposure, they are
still capable of absorbing sufficient amounts of calcium from the blood necessary for the building of
healthy bones. While being breast-fed, an infant receives plenty of milk sugar and phospho-caseins, both
excellent transporting agents for calcium. If there is anything that could cause rickets in babies, it is lack
of mothers’ milk and underexposure to sunlight.
Adults are not as well protected against vitamin D ingestion as breastfed infants are. One report issued
by the University of Tromso in Norway showed that the long-term intake of vitamin D at the dosage of
just slightly above the 400 IU recommended amount (many people take as much as 4,000 to 5,000 IU per
day!) may trigger a heart attack and cause degenerative joint disease and arthritis. Another finding
emerged from the New York University Goldwater Memorial Hospital, which suggests that large doses of
vitamin D can cause magnesium deficiency in the heart tissue and cause heart attacks.
Pregnant women are particularly at risk. Dietary intake of vitamin D has led to kidney calcification and
severe mental retardation in their offspring. Children born to mothers, who take extra vitamin D in their
diet, may develop a certain type of congenital heart disease called supravalvular aortic stenosis and show
extreme deformations of facial bones.