Vitamin D Controversy and Regulation

was discovered in 1913, but by 1918, they were onto, "Hey,

this stuff really works." By 1928, 10 years later, everybody in America was

taking 20 milligrams a day. And you know what happened?

Our hospitals emptied out.

They had a medical emergency. No one was getting sick.

So what the AMA and the FDA got together and what they decided to do was

to give seven medical students enough vitamin D to kill a horse.

Well, of course, the kids got sick.

Right.

That was their excuse to remove vitamin D from the shelf.

But because of the public uproar, the president of the United States had to

commission the University of Chicago medical faculty, under Dr.

Frock, to tell the world, is vitamin D toxic?

The study took years, and in the meantime, the FDA and AMA got together and says,

"We've got to stop people from taking the crucial vitamins A, D, and E.

And so you know what we're gonna do?

We're gonna use number psychology on the public." The 20 milligrams that the little

lady takes every day is now 1 million units,

and a million units will kill

you. So what do they allow? 400. Now, 400 is

1/100 of a milligram. Not enough to do any good.