Vitamin D3 — 50% Reduction in Many Comorbidities of Pregnancy

76% of pregnant mothers are severely vitamin D deficient, causing widespread vitamin D deficiencies in their unborn children, which predisposes them to type 1 diabetes, arthritis, multiple sclerosis and schizophrenia later in life. 81% of the children born to these mothers were deficient.

Overview: 4000 IU/day is recommended for pregnant women as safe and effective in producing a 50% reduction in many comorbidities of pregnancy such as preeclampsia and preterm labor. These results are from a randomized clinical trial done by Dr. Carol Wagner and Dr. Bruce Hollis of the Medical University of South Carolina. Dr. Wagner is interviewed here about that trial.

VITAMIN D REQUIREMENTS DURING PREGNANCY, LACTATION, & EARLY INFANCY: A MOVING TARGET

The Vitamin D Pandemic and its Health Consequences

Presented by Michael Holick, PhD, MD, Professor of medicine, physiology and biophysics and director of the General Clinical Research Center at Boston University Medical Center

Shocking Vitamin D Deficiency Statistics

76% of pregnant mothers are severely vitamin D deficient, causing widespread vitamin D deficienciesin their unborn children, which predisposes them to type 1 diabetes, arthritis, multiple sclerosis andschizophrenia later in life. 81% of the children born to these mothers were deficient.

32% of doctors and med school students are vitamin D deficient.

40% of the U.S. population is vitamin D deficient.

42% of African American women of childbearing age are deficient in vitamin D.

48% of young girls (9-11 years old) are vitamin D deficient. Up to 60% of all hospital patients are vitamin D deficient.

Up to 80% of nursing home patients are vitamin D deficient.