Vitamin D Recommendations and Miscalculations

A grave statistical error has kept vitamin D recommendations dangerously low for decades.

The Institute of Medicine claimed that just 600 international units per day

would allow 97.5% of healthy people to reach a vitamin D level

of at least 15 animals per liter.

But a peer-reviewed reanalysis found that

the Institute had misread its own statistics.

its calculation showed that 97.5% of study group

averages would exceed the target.

Not that 97.5% of individual people would.

And so that distinction changes everything, right? So to ensure that

97.5% of individuals reached at least 15 nanomoles per liter,

you'll see number three there,

the study estimated that approximately 8,895 international units per day is required.

Okay, that's nearly 15 times higher

than the 600 international units per day that's been recommended for decades

That is not a minor rounding error. That's a fundamental statistical

Miscalculation with serious public health consequences and they still haven't changed it.

They haven't done anything So something needs to be done

600 I use a day is inadequate