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More Anti-nutrition misinformation from Medscape (February 17, 2022) misdirecting MILLIONS OF DOCTORS AND PATIENTS

He cites the recent "Vital" study as negating the clinical value of vitamin D but the study actually showed (AND I QUOTE) "Vitamin D supplementation for five years reduced autoimmune disease by 22%."

Dr Alex Kennerly Vasquez
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Ignorance, hubris, virtue signaling, and logical fallacies

On February 17, 2022 medscape.com sent their email newsletter with the title “Vitamin D Supplements Do Not Improve Health” which directed to the article “Why Is Vitamin D Hype So Impervious to Evidence?” authored by John Mandrola MD, who apparently has never studied nutrition (eg, he has no graduate degrees in Nutrition) and whose job description is that of “Clinical Electrophysiologist”, which has nothing to do with nutrition or integrative/functional medicine nor primary care medicine.

In my 30 years of clinical experience/education/teaching, I have never heard of a “clinical electrophysiologist” who then writes about Nutrition after never having studied the topic. He does not have any graduate degrees in this topic, and he has no publications on vitamin D, according to Pubmed.

A search for “John Mandrola and vitamin D” on NIH’s Pubmed shows that he has never published anything on vitamin D and that therefore he has no established analysis or expertise on this topic.

In contrast, use of the same search strategy using my name shows 5 publications, one of which is a major paradigm-shifting review (2004, PDF included below) that has stood the test of time for 18 years and another 3 publications are in top-tier journals British Medical Journal, Journal of the American Medical Association, and the internationally respected specialty journal Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism published by the international Endocrine Society, ie, The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Volume 93, Issue 7, 1 July 2008, Pages 2716–2721, https://doi.org/10.1210/jc.2007-2790

As expected, his words (see image) are a collection of ignorance, misinterpretation, misquoting, hubris, virtue signaling, and logical fallacies (such as appeal to emotion).

He cites the recent "Vital" study as negating the clinical value of vitamin D but the study actually showed —AND I QUOTE— "Vitamin D supplementation for five years, with or without omega 3 fatty acids, reduced autoimmune disease by 22%."

The image excerpted above doesn’t warrant more discussion. He’s a nutritionally clueless “clinical electrophysiologist” writing for one of the worst anti-nutrition pro-pharma media outlets on the net. Unfortunately, Medscape has a reach of up to millions of people, mostly doctors, and so their misinformation directly impacts the health outcomes of millions of people.

In contrast, if that same audience had access to my nutrition and disease-prevention information, we’d see paradigm shifts in healthcare throughout the nation, perhaps the word.

See my videos in the pages linked below (which follow these PDF articles).

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VIDEO: Common VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY results in CHRONIC PAIN and PAIN AMPLIFICATION
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Mechanistic Role of Vitamin D Deficiency in Mood Disorders, Anxiety, and Depression
We know that vitamin D deficiency promotes chronic pain, pain chronification, and pain amplification by several different mechanisms, and that vitamin D supplementation reverses these pathologies. I covered all of that information in Part 1. Here in Part 2, I detail the high frequency of vitamin D deficiency in various international communities, the ways…
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