This article is genius. This doctor is truly wanting to help, but like so many, is stuck in the pill prescribing industry. If she were to step outside that box, she would see her reasoning is off. That Weston Price is my most cherished book. When in doubt, look at nature, and those that still live natural lives. From almost vegetarian to full animal food, they are all healthy. Because they eat what their bodies can digest, inherited from their ancestors. Just like a lion does not eat grass, and a cow does not eat pork. How hard can that be?
This is amazing knowing how allopathy ignores the fact that serotonin is the "slow down" neurotransmitter. That's why they pushed SSRIs, to keep people "sleeping awake".
Re: rat poison
Remember that anything in high amounts can be a poison, even too much water can be deadly as it displaces minerals. Dosage is key and I do not condone high doses of anything as this can deplete other things.
Here's a substack about vitamin D3 supplementation which corresponds to our experience. I don't support high dosing though.
I've read a number of your articles against Vitamin D, and they puzzle me.
On the serum test: whilst consuming manufactured Vit D will doubtless raise measured levels, they are also measurable in those who have not consumed such, so your assertion that the test only measures the manufactured Vit D cannot be true. The other thing that raises such measured levels is sun exposure, which also contradicts your assertion. It took a lot of hard study and reading to find it, as it is so rarely mentioned, but people of lighter complexion produce between 10,000-20,000 IU Vit D within 24 hrs of 10-15 mins exposure to UV-B (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5175574/)
You would do well to study the works of the first-named author of the study you referenced on the isolation of 1,25-hydroxyvitamin D (also known as 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol or calcitrol) the active form of VitD, Michael Hollick; whilst perhaps unfortunately quiet and constrained is honest and paints a full picture on the metabolism of Vit D. This includes that whilst the kidney does convert a tightly controlled amount of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (cholecalciferol, the inactive form) to the active form involved in bone metabolism, every cell in the body can do so, but does so, uses it, and it is rapidly then converted to the inactive calcitroic acid for excretion to prevent it, as it is highly metabolically active in a large number of processes, from doing uncontrolled damage (including calcification).
On the rat poison issue: 25-hydroxyvitamin D is INACTIVE in humans and has to be converted to the active form for use, this is to protect us as mentioned above. For rats, being nocturnal, this is not the case and it is very clearly active for them, induces calcification, and kills them; such is simply not true in humans.
Your Substack is one of 3 or 4 largely anti-Pharma platforms I am aware of, that also seems anti-Vit D. DeLuca, a sub-author on the study mentioned above, clearly an industry stooge, is not above planting false information. I suspect that he and others have fed the models you have developed with such, quite possibly via scientific papers (the sum of which does not equate to understanding and knowledge) - this is how Pharma works. Generally your Substack is good on history, you might perhaps look at the early decades of the 20th Century, where vitamin D was heavily promoted - and resulted in empty clinics and hospitals, and their revenue generating models could not be sustained. For Pharma, Vit D is a principal enemy.
On Stasha Gominak: sleep is vastly more complex than Vits D & B, and I wouldn't trust the synthetic folic acid any more than you, although it may most certainly have metabolic effects. I am grateful to her for noting that proton pump inhibitors also inhibit enzymes involved in sleep, and for her published hypotheses - which are testable. I am sure that if what she does works, that her patients are very grateful.
For lay people like me who have been traumatized by the Plandemic, big harma, big veterinary, big insurance, and big medicine it is easier to want to believe the worst about everything than to take it with a grain a salt, so to speak.
It is also easy to believe that big pharma will poison the well on every subject to keep us confused.
You are right, Pharma uses every means to attack its enemies like Vit D, including feeding false information, partial models, and fake comments on substacks from Pharma shills designed to spread fear; the playbook is long - and includes such things as creating a surge in paid subscriptions for pro-Pharma, anti-Vit D articles.
The best thing to do is to get sunlight in the summer around midday, the body makes far more than just Vit D from sunlight, but such are barely studied as they cannot be patented and thus exploited. Beyond that there are UV-B full spectrum lamps that can be used in the winter for the full package, or Vit D supplements which do help, but only for what Vit D can provide; it also needs to be operating within the matrix of all necessary co-factors and nutrients.
In my long experience informing folks that D pills are rat poison, people tend to dismiss the fact that my dad died of this very rat poison with the arrogant and glib "dose makes the poison."
Well it's the same with people telling themselves they have to slave away at corporate jobs hiding in the flickering light during mid-day lunch breaks and sleeping in past weekend sunrises: the dose of corporate slavery makes the poison.
Thanks you for this essay. I just watched the interview of Gominak on DOAC. It’s wonderful to read a different perspective so soon after an interview where Gominak is so sure of her conclusions, because clinical proof, don’t you know.
I am a classic case of what she teaches. I've taken D3 at large doses for years. I have no problems sleeping. I've developed what would be diagnosed as lupus by the symptoms I have. Because of the "lupus" thing I am supposed to stay out of sunlight because UV rays triggers flares of slight fever, exhaustion, discoid rash. I heard Dr. Gominak on DOAC and immediately started taking a high potency B complex which I had in my supplement drawer. Within 2 days I felt better. I've cut back on the D3 supplementation but haven't cut it out entirely. I'm starting to go out in the morning sun for about 30-45 min. I'm 75 yrs old, and just like she says in the interview, have enjoyed good health all my life till age 74. It's all so confusing. I'm figuring this out on my own since I have no doctors.
I stopped taking cholecalciferol, so-called "vitamin D" in 2025 when I learned it is RAT POISON! I did feel a little worse for a few months - which makes sense because cholecalciferol is a weak steroid - but then recovered. I also stopped drinking milk that has added "vitamin D" and any other products with added "vitamin D." I try to avoid chemical additives in my food, if possible. See my other post on this thread for more info.
Well if it's working for you, I hope I don't throw a wet blanket on the party by mentioning neurosurgeon and clothing-optional tanner Dr. Jack Kruse. Not to mention his clothing-optional protoge Dr. Alexis Jazmyn Cowan, who can tan the heck out of herself.
As a children, we had very little food, but my father was into fresh air, sunshine and exercise. I did well every year until about February, when I ran out of Vitamin D from sunlight and wound up sick in bed. However, never seriously ill. My father raised 5 children that way...and my sister and I are in our 90s and two of my three brothers are in their 80s, My oldest brother took the CV vax and died just weeks later in 2022. I believe that I was the only one in the family who started using vitamins in the 1960s. In 2000, Dr. Russell Blaylock recommended Solgar B-Complex 100. in his newsletter and I started using it. It made me feel very Zen and I noted that there were dark strands in my hair.as I got older. My hair didn't turn white, even now at 92.. Your information makes sense...and I do question the use of vitamins, too. I studied the isolated Hunzacuts who lived longer than any in the Blue Zones. - They lived in the Himalayas and there were glaciers above them, which provided lots of mineral-enriched soil in their terraces. They were primarily vegetarians, except for an occasional feast day.. The families raised goats for milk and cheese. John Robbins wrote about the Hunzas in his book Healthy at 100. Men 100 years old were known to have fathered children with their 70 year old wives. The Hunzas were outside working in their gardens and orchards; and climbing up steep mountains paths all their lives. In the 1970s I first read about the Hunzas in a book written by Jay M. Hoffman, PhD. the Missing Link in the m the Medical CurriculumL. which is Food Chemistry in Relationship to Body Chemistry. He also wrote another book on the Long Lived Hunzas. He had the opportunity to visit them.
What the author fails to realize, is that Dr. Gominak and her patients are of this world, and in this world. Inside that framework, she operates to the best of her skills and for the best of the patients abilities to heal within the framework.
In a perfect world, we would be free from work, and could consume as much sunlight as we desired. We could eat organic whole foods and achieve great nutrition simply by our lifestyles. Most people can't or won't live in such a world. Many are chained to their phones by their employer, their bank, their utiility companies, their own commerce. Simply purchasing daily needs finds one navigating websites, paying bills requires websites and payment apps, etc.
The simple volume of people in the world ensures most don't and won't ever have access to an enhanced leisure lifestyle, allowing healthy choices, and positive feedback loops.
Chemistry exists for many reason,but it is a manmade science, meant to provide "things" in excess of the natural capacity of the local environment one may find themselves in. Gasoline for instance, or Diesel, most don't have an oil well or a refractory refinery, so we purchase these chemicals in order to conduct our affairs in the most practical means available. Shall we clutch our pearls and howl at the outrage of not using "natural" coal to produce steam and steam powered vehicles, or pine for horses to carry us about, and all that owning and caring for a horse entails?
I'm all for exploring great health through non-traditional avenues, but I'm not willing to abandon common sense to demand everyone should throw away their vitamins, and absorb all nutrition thru their native environment, just because gasoline doesn't come from a cow,or vitamin wasn't derived from sunlight.
While it is fine to examine logic and science and the ideas and practices of medicine, I thinki targeting Dr Grominak for helping her patients is a misplacement of your energies, of all the targets you could aim at she is the least deserving of criticism. I am not related to her, have never met her, but I have enjoyed reading and hearing her thoughts. As I enjoy your writings, so too I enjoy her's though both your thoughts may differ on many topics.
Please spend your great gift's examining the many low hanging fruit in the medical profession and its institutions, rather than finding fault with the use of poor substitute by those for whom only poor substitutes are available via our economic and political systems.
Several years ago, I began to suspect that some health bloggers are controlled opposition. Both Vitamin D and Vitamin C were subjects of both sides of the discussion about whether Vit D (pills, not natural light) or synthetic Vit C in the form of ascorbic acid were not healthy. What makes discernment difficult to that both sides sell supplements, so they both have an interest in capturing as many eyeballs as they can. Most people I know who take Vit D feel better but reach a point where more Vit D yields no improvement. I am not sure what that dosage is and it is highly dependent upon latitude, lifestyle and ethnicity (amount of melatonin in someone's skin).
I do find it interesting that nutritional formulators calculate the ratio of Vitamin A to Vitamin D as they affect the body's ability to absorb the vitamins and they are stored in fatty tissue. So I don't doubt Dr. Gominak's results; just wondering how much Vitamin A intake through food affects the absorption and utilization of Vit D?
I think it is good idea to question our intake of Vit D as the recommended amounts by doctors seem a little high. A researcher I follow mentions repeatedly that if it happens in a rat, it'll happen to us. A discussion group with whom I am involved took a science article about Vit D and rat poison. The article mentioned the rat dosage that caused excessive calcification (given in IU) and took the rat weights given in a table. We then took our weight in kg (same measurement unit of the rats) and figured out the theoretical maximum dosage and got 8,000 to 10,000 IU. I have since dropped down to 2,500 a day with 2,000 mg of Vit C and seem to be ok.
Besides getting a lot of sun, our ancestors moved a lot. We don't and I think that more than anything affects our health. A treadmill is not the same as walking outside as we don't get feedback from gravity which is probably more important to healthy aging than exercising in a controlled environment. Our interaction with gravity is why our brains are so much bigger than other mammals. The reflexive pathways is what keeps us upright and the less we move outside without shoes, the weaker those pathways get. Could this controversy about Vit D really be big pharma's way of making sure that when we age, we spend more and more on their petroleum products, including rat poison?
Boric acid kills cockroaches, I personally suplement boron, the base element of boric acid. I find it boderline propaganda to sow fear, based on the many uses of an element or chemical. The are product data sheets for nearly every commercial chemical, that list the ld50.
Chlorine was used as chemical weapon in WWII -Three substances were responsible for most chemical-weapons injuries and deaths during World War I: chlorine, phosgene, and mustard gas.
Chlorine gas, used on the infamous day of April 22, 1915, produces a greenish-yellow cloud that smells of bleach and immediately irritates the eyes, nose, lungs, and throat of those exposed to it. At high enough doses it kills by asphyxiation.
Chlorine is used in virtually all commercial and residential water systems to destroy bacteria in water supplies. Shall we ban it because it can be weaponized, it can kill people, shall we ban it?
Our bodies are simply put, a bag of bacteria, proteins, fats, and minerals and chemicals all surviving in a watery environment containing salt (chlorine & sodium) - again without chlorine in the form of salt we would die. Shall we ban salt because it contains chlorine a chemical weapon agent?
Chemistry is not simple, nor is life, Dogma however is typically simplistic. Try to avoid dogma it is a poor substitute for actual thought and understanding.
Oh man, this 'stack is dismaying! I KNOW I should get up from my computer and my workbench and go out into the sun... But those two indoor hours at work are what keep me in food, house, and electricity! Gone carnivore, which has been great.... but still not getting out in the sun.
I'm the very "fringe internet personality" your audio refers to. Pleased to meet you. I spent the winter at latitude 54 posting on to the stack the good news that exogenous D is rat poison and it killed my father. This made me even more bona fida fringe. I'm so fringe that I'm probably a month's hike from the mainstream at this point.
I spent the winter at latitude 54 sitting outside in the sunlight, visually antagonizing the locals. Perhaps it didn't help that I cheerfully told them that the sunlight pills they were munching were the very rat poison that killed my father.
This article is genius. This doctor is truly wanting to help, but like so many, is stuck in the pill prescribing industry. If she were to step outside that box, she would see her reasoning is off. That Weston Price is my most cherished book. When in doubt, look at nature, and those that still live natural lives. From almost vegetarian to full animal food, they are all healthy. Because they eat what their bodies can digest, inherited from their ancestors. Just like a lion does not eat grass, and a cow does not eat pork. How hard can that be?
very good article, thank you.
we need to push ourselves back to the sun, the motion, the clean water and the sea, the real food and the peaceful living
Seeing that Stasha and others got immune conditions make me wonder if they took any shots.
They seem to still believe in doctors and this is why I question whether the cause was the d3 + b100 protocol or not.
My wife and I have had positive effects from d3+k2 and b100. Normally 5000iu a day but 10k in winter.
She primarily works in an office and gets minimal time outside especially in winter when the sun goes down early here.
Some research here of key findings on some topics.
https://haidut.me/?s=Vitamin+D3
https://haidut.me/?s=aspirin
https://haidut.me/?s=serotonin
This is amazing knowing how allopathy ignores the fact that serotonin is the "slow down" neurotransmitter. That's why they pushed SSRIs, to keep people "sleeping awake".
Re: rat poison
Remember that anything in high amounts can be a poison, even too much water can be deadly as it displaces minerals. Dosage is key and I do not condone high doses of anything as this can deplete other things.
Here's a substack about vitamin D3 supplementation which corresponds to our experience. I don't support high dosing though.
https://starpower.substack.com/p/23-years-of-high-dose-vitamin-d-what
I've read a number of your articles against Vitamin D, and they puzzle me.
On the serum test: whilst consuming manufactured Vit D will doubtless raise measured levels, they are also measurable in those who have not consumed such, so your assertion that the test only measures the manufactured Vit D cannot be true. The other thing that raises such measured levels is sun exposure, which also contradicts your assertion. It took a lot of hard study and reading to find it, as it is so rarely mentioned, but people of lighter complexion produce between 10,000-20,000 IU Vit D within 24 hrs of 10-15 mins exposure to UV-B (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5175574/)
You would do well to study the works of the first-named author of the study you referenced on the isolation of 1,25-hydroxyvitamin D (also known as 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol or calcitrol) the active form of VitD, Michael Hollick; whilst perhaps unfortunately quiet and constrained is honest and paints a full picture on the metabolism of Vit D. This includes that whilst the kidney does convert a tightly controlled amount of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (cholecalciferol, the inactive form) to the active form involved in bone metabolism, every cell in the body can do so, but does so, uses it, and it is rapidly then converted to the inactive calcitroic acid for excretion to prevent it, as it is highly metabolically active in a large number of processes, from doing uncontrolled damage (including calcification).
On the rat poison issue: 25-hydroxyvitamin D is INACTIVE in humans and has to be converted to the active form for use, this is to protect us as mentioned above. For rats, being nocturnal, this is not the case and it is very clearly active for them, induces calcification, and kills them; such is simply not true in humans.
Your Substack is one of 3 or 4 largely anti-Pharma platforms I am aware of, that also seems anti-Vit D. DeLuca, a sub-author on the study mentioned above, clearly an industry stooge, is not above planting false information. I suspect that he and others have fed the models you have developed with such, quite possibly via scientific papers (the sum of which does not equate to understanding and knowledge) - this is how Pharma works. Generally your Substack is good on history, you might perhaps look at the early decades of the 20th Century, where vitamin D was heavily promoted - and resulted in empty clinics and hospitals, and their revenue generating models could not be sustained. For Pharma, Vit D is a principal enemy.
On Stasha Gominak: sleep is vastly more complex than Vits D & B, and I wouldn't trust the synthetic folic acid any more than you, although it may most certainly have metabolic effects. I am grateful to her for noting that proton pump inhibitors also inhibit enzymes involved in sleep, and for her published hypotheses - which are testable. I am sure that if what she does works, that her patients are very grateful.
For lay people like me who have been traumatized by the Plandemic, big harma, big veterinary, big insurance, and big medicine it is easier to want to believe the worst about everything than to take it with a grain a salt, so to speak.
It is also easy to believe that big pharma will poison the well on every subject to keep us confused.
You are right, Pharma uses every means to attack its enemies like Vit D, including feeding false information, partial models, and fake comments on substacks from Pharma shills designed to spread fear; the playbook is long - and includes such things as creating a surge in paid subscriptions for pro-Pharma, anti-Vit D articles.
The best thing to do is to get sunlight in the summer around midday, the body makes far more than just Vit D from sunlight, but such are barely studied as they cannot be patented and thus exploited. Beyond that there are UV-B full spectrum lamps that can be used in the winter for the full package, or Vit D supplements which do help, but only for what Vit D can provide; it also needs to be operating within the matrix of all necessary co-factors and nutrients.
In my long experience informing folks that D pills are rat poison, people tend to dismiss the fact that my dad died of this very rat poison with the arrogant and glib "dose makes the poison."
Well it's the same with people telling themselves they have to slave away at corporate jobs hiding in the flickering light during mid-day lunch breaks and sleeping in past weekend sunrises: the dose of corporate slavery makes the poison.
Thanks you for this essay. I just watched the interview of Gominak on DOAC. It’s wonderful to read a different perspective so soon after an interview where Gominak is so sure of her conclusions, because clinical proof, don’t you know.
I am a classic case of what she teaches. I've taken D3 at large doses for years. I have no problems sleeping. I've developed what would be diagnosed as lupus by the symptoms I have. Because of the "lupus" thing I am supposed to stay out of sunlight because UV rays triggers flares of slight fever, exhaustion, discoid rash. I heard Dr. Gominak on DOAC and immediately started taking a high potency B complex which I had in my supplement drawer. Within 2 days I felt better. I've cut back on the D3 supplementation but haven't cut it out entirely. I'm starting to go out in the morning sun for about 30-45 min. I'm 75 yrs old, and just like she says in the interview, have enjoyed good health all my life till age 74. It's all so confusing. I'm figuring this out on my own since I have no doctors.
I stopped taking cholecalciferol, so-called "vitamin D" in 2025 when I learned it is RAT POISON! I did feel a little worse for a few months - which makes sense because cholecalciferol is a weak steroid - but then recovered. I also stopped drinking milk that has added "vitamin D" and any other products with added "vitamin D." I try to avoid chemical additives in my food, if possible. See my other post on this thread for more info.
Well if it's working for you, I hope I don't throw a wet blanket on the party by mentioning neurosurgeon and clothing-optional tanner Dr. Jack Kruse. Not to mention his clothing-optional protoge Dr. Alexis Jazmyn Cowan, who can tan the heck out of herself.
As a children, we had very little food, but my father was into fresh air, sunshine and exercise. I did well every year until about February, when I ran out of Vitamin D from sunlight and wound up sick in bed. However, never seriously ill. My father raised 5 children that way...and my sister and I are in our 90s and two of my three brothers are in their 80s, My oldest brother took the CV vax and died just weeks later in 2022. I believe that I was the only one in the family who started using vitamins in the 1960s. In 2000, Dr. Russell Blaylock recommended Solgar B-Complex 100. in his newsletter and I started using it. It made me feel very Zen and I noted that there were dark strands in my hair.as I got older. My hair didn't turn white, even now at 92.. Your information makes sense...and I do question the use of vitamins, too. I studied the isolated Hunzacuts who lived longer than any in the Blue Zones. - They lived in the Himalayas and there were glaciers above them, which provided lots of mineral-enriched soil in their terraces. They were primarily vegetarians, except for an occasional feast day.. The families raised goats for milk and cheese. John Robbins wrote about the Hunzas in his book Healthy at 100. Men 100 years old were known to have fathered children with their 70 year old wives. The Hunzas were outside working in their gardens and orchards; and climbing up steep mountains paths all their lives. In the 1970s I first read about the Hunzas in a book written by Jay M. Hoffman, PhD. the Missing Link in the m the Medical CurriculumL. which is Food Chemistry in Relationship to Body Chemistry. He also wrote another book on the Long Lived Hunzas. He had the opportunity to visit them.
I just watched this on YouTube! Gominak is awesome 👍
What the author fails to realize, is that Dr. Gominak and her patients are of this world, and in this world. Inside that framework, she operates to the best of her skills and for the best of the patients abilities to heal within the framework.
In a perfect world, we would be free from work, and could consume as much sunlight as we desired. We could eat organic whole foods and achieve great nutrition simply by our lifestyles. Most people can't or won't live in such a world. Many are chained to their phones by their employer, their bank, their utiility companies, their own commerce. Simply purchasing daily needs finds one navigating websites, paying bills requires websites and payment apps, etc.
The simple volume of people in the world ensures most don't and won't ever have access to an enhanced leisure lifestyle, allowing healthy choices, and positive feedback loops.
Chemistry exists for many reason,but it is a manmade science, meant to provide "things" in excess of the natural capacity of the local environment one may find themselves in. Gasoline for instance, or Diesel, most don't have an oil well or a refractory refinery, so we purchase these chemicals in order to conduct our affairs in the most practical means available. Shall we clutch our pearls and howl at the outrage of not using "natural" coal to produce steam and steam powered vehicles, or pine for horses to carry us about, and all that owning and caring for a horse entails?
I'm all for exploring great health through non-traditional avenues, but I'm not willing to abandon common sense to demand everyone should throw away their vitamins, and absorb all nutrition thru their native environment, just because gasoline doesn't come from a cow,or vitamin wasn't derived from sunlight.
While it is fine to examine logic and science and the ideas and practices of medicine, I thinki targeting Dr Grominak for helping her patients is a misplacement of your energies, of all the targets you could aim at she is the least deserving of criticism. I am not related to her, have never met her, but I have enjoyed reading and hearing her thoughts. As I enjoy your writings, so too I enjoy her's though both your thoughts may differ on many topics.
Please spend your great gift's examining the many low hanging fruit in the medical profession and its institutions, rather than finding fault with the use of poor substitute by those for whom only poor substitutes are available via our economic and political systems.
Several years ago, I began to suspect that some health bloggers are controlled opposition. Both Vitamin D and Vitamin C were subjects of both sides of the discussion about whether Vit D (pills, not natural light) or synthetic Vit C in the form of ascorbic acid were not healthy. What makes discernment difficult to that both sides sell supplements, so they both have an interest in capturing as many eyeballs as they can. Most people I know who take Vit D feel better but reach a point where more Vit D yields no improvement. I am not sure what that dosage is and it is highly dependent upon latitude, lifestyle and ethnicity (amount of melatonin in someone's skin).
I do find it interesting that nutritional formulators calculate the ratio of Vitamin A to Vitamin D as they affect the body's ability to absorb the vitamins and they are stored in fatty tissue. So I don't doubt Dr. Gominak's results; just wondering how much Vitamin A intake through food affects the absorption and utilization of Vit D?
I think it is good idea to question our intake of Vit D as the recommended amounts by doctors seem a little high. A researcher I follow mentions repeatedly that if it happens in a rat, it'll happen to us. A discussion group with whom I am involved took a science article about Vit D and rat poison. The article mentioned the rat dosage that caused excessive calcification (given in IU) and took the rat weights given in a table. We then took our weight in kg (same measurement unit of the rats) and figured out the theoretical maximum dosage and got 8,000 to 10,000 IU. I have since dropped down to 2,500 a day with 2,000 mg of Vit C and seem to be ok.
Besides getting a lot of sun, our ancestors moved a lot. We don't and I think that more than anything affects our health. A treadmill is not the same as walking outside as we don't get feedback from gravity which is probably more important to healthy aging than exercising in a controlled environment. Our interaction with gravity is why our brains are so much bigger than other mammals. The reflexive pathways is what keeps us upright and the less we move outside without shoes, the weaker those pathways get. Could this controversy about Vit D really be big pharma's way of making sure that when we age, we spend more and more on their petroleum products, including rat poison?
Boric acid kills cockroaches, I personally suplement boron, the base element of boric acid. I find it boderline propaganda to sow fear, based on the many uses of an element or chemical. The are product data sheets for nearly every commercial chemical, that list the ld50.
Chlorine was used as chemical weapon in WWII -Three substances were responsible for most chemical-weapons injuries and deaths during World War I: chlorine, phosgene, and mustard gas.
Chlorine gas, used on the infamous day of April 22, 1915, produces a greenish-yellow cloud that smells of bleach and immediately irritates the eyes, nose, lungs, and throat of those exposed to it. At high enough doses it kills by asphyxiation.
Chlorine is used in virtually all commercial and residential water systems to destroy bacteria in water supplies. Shall we ban it because it can be weaponized, it can kill people, shall we ban it?
Our bodies are simply put, a bag of bacteria, proteins, fats, and minerals and chemicals all surviving in a watery environment containing salt (chlorine & sodium) - again without chlorine in the form of salt we would die. Shall we ban salt because it contains chlorine a chemical weapon agent?
Chemistry is not simple, nor is life, Dogma however is typically simplistic. Try to avoid dogma it is a poor substitute for actual thought and understanding.
Oh man, this 'stack is dismaying! I KNOW I should get up from my computer and my workbench and go out into the sun... But those two indoor hours at work are what keep me in food, house, and electricity! Gone carnivore, which has been great.... but still not getting out in the sun.
Life is hard.
Excellent information - thank you!!
I'm the very "fringe internet personality" your audio refers to. Pleased to meet you. I spent the winter at latitude 54 posting on to the stack the good news that exogenous D is rat poison and it killed my father. This made me even more bona fida fringe. I'm so fringe that I'm probably a month's hike from the mainstream at this point.
I spent the winter at latitude 54 sitting outside in the sunlight, visually antagonizing the locals. Perhaps it didn't help that I cheerfully told them that the sunlight pills they were munching were the very rat poison that killed my father.
Vitamins are the LGBTQ alphabet of the corporate -"alternative" world.
The research I've seen indicates that the sweet spot for 25(OH) vitamin D is 32 ng/mL, not 60. In fact, anything over 40 seems to be detrimental. See:
https://danmaiullo.substack.com/p/the-more-vitamin-d-the-better
you may want to take a look at Dr. John Campbell's 15 minute presentation where he discusses much larger doses in a 7 year clinical study.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3_t-EQIy0s
Daily oral dosing of vitamin D3 using 5000 TO 50,000 international units a day in long-term hospitalized patients:
Insights from a seven year experience
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30611908/
Dayton and Cincinnati, Ohio
Vitamin D3 is a hormone produced in the skin,
in amounts estimated up to 25,000 international units (IUs) a day,
Thanks! Will do.