Deficiency-Vitamin D causing heart failure

[David Lawrence Dewey]

Accumulating evidence suggests that vitamin D deficiency (serum levels <20 ng/mL) and insufficiency (serum levels between 20 ng/mL and 30 ng/mL) may play a role in the development of a variety of conditions, including HF. Several studies have demonstrated an association between low vitamin D levels and worse outcomes among patients with HF.

Have you had your Vitamin D levels checked.
Recent studies show that as much as 50% of the population is deficient and those over 50, a whopping 65%

www.cardiologytoday.com/view.aspx?rid=75808

[diane]

My and my husband have been taking vitamin d for two years now, we've had no colds or flu the last two years and our bones feel so much better. It also boosts the immune system. We don't get out in the sun much so this makes up for it.

[don2208]

I've heard rumors that even though Vit. D is good for atherosclerosis (is it?), too much Vit. D will exacerbate (increase) calcium deposits in the arteries, which, of course, would result in worsening atherosclerosis. IF this is true, are the amounts huge and out of the range of normal (i.e. 10,000 IU or more)? Does anyone know if the premise about calcification is even true?

[David Lawrence Dewey]

Here is information concerning Don’s question.

You really only need to take about 4,000 units to get the benefit - but only after you get your doctor to get a base reading of your Vitamin D levels, possible less.

Vitamin D Lowers Risk of Atherosclerosis in Diabetes Patients
www.biotechdaily.com/therapeutics/articles/294725251/vitamin_d_lowers_risk_of_atherosclerosis_in_diabetes_patients.html

Vitamin D: Vitamin D optimizes calcium metabolism and starts reversing the calcium deposits (plaque) on your artery walls.

www.mnwelldir.org/docs/cardio/cardio9.htm

You might want to read:

Dr. Fuster is the world’s leading heart cardiologist and researcher:
mountsinaihospital.net/profiles/valentin-fuster

Dr Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD (director of cardiovascular research at Mount and Professor of Cardiology at Sinai School of Medicine in New York and previous head of the American Heart Association) published the results of a forty-year study (from 1959 to 1999) in a book called Understanding Vulnerable Plaque.

Fuster talks about a marker called c-reactive protein, causing the inflammation.

Even Newsweek eventually picked up the story quoting Dr Fuster: “inflammation in the circulating blood may play an important role in triggering heart attacks by activating blood clotting mechanisms.” Fuster even has the integrity to state that the role of physicians should be to care for the blood and not go into the plumbing business (performing expensive “roto-rooter” services on our blood vessels).

If you go to Dr Garry Gordon’s web site, www.gordonresearch.com, you’ll see that Dr Gordon was pushing this line of thought years before it was released in the Wall Street Journal. You’ll see that for the past ten years Dr Garry Gordon has not sent one of his heart disease patients in for bypass surgery. You’ll see that he has written all sorts of papers on Bypassing Bypass Surgery:

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