Yet another study shows that chronic pain is a symptom of Vitamin D deficiency.
Another study, this time from the renowned Mayo Clinic, states that people with low Vitamin D levels use almost twice as much pain medicine as those who have normal levels!
This is only one of MANY STUDIES that show the relationship between chronic pain and Vitamin D levels. Many researchers are even implicating Vitamin D deficiency as The Cause of Fibromyalgia and that many with this elusive condition can be effectively treated simply with proper high dose supplementation!
Yet, it’s unlikely that this study will change policy in the Conventional Medical Field. There are a few doctors who are now starting to check 25(OH) D levels for various reasons, yet most still are clueless about the MANY diseases that a deficiency can improve and even cure. Unfortunately, most of health care is driven by education from Pharmaceutical Companies- and Vitamin D doesn’t have any scantily clad vitamin representatives running around to doctors offices giving out samples so that awareness of it’s benefits increases.
Another problem is that even when doctors DO happen to find Vitamin D Deficiency, they are unaware of the proper way to treat it. They will often give low doses in the range of 800 to 1000 IU’s and never recheck the patient’s blood level. When the patient doesn’t get better, they conclude that treatment of Vitamin D deficiency didn’t help their pain. But what they fail to understand is that the low dose that they prescribed is completely inadequate to treat the deficiency!
And research shows that even VERY MILD deficiencies can cause pain! So these patients continue to suffer unnecessarily due to their doctor’s ignorance.
If you suffer from PAIN OF ANY KIND, then you owe it to yourself to get your Vitamin D levels- called a 25(OH)D- checked and have AGGRESSIVE treatment of any deficiency that you may have.
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