Dr. Paul Lee of the University of Queensland in Australia believes that people all over the world are needlessly dying because they have vitamin D deficiency. The notes that the stress of surgery uses up tremendous amounts of vitamin D.
In a paper, he finds that severe immune dysfunction, bone hyper-resorption, blood poisoning, and hyper-inflammation in critically ill patients could all be resolved with sufficient vitamin D. He cites studies showing that death in the ICU and the CCU is 2 to 3 times higher for the vitamin D deficient.
According to the study, in Best Practice & Research – Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism:
“Collectively these results provide unequivocal evidence that vitamin D insufficiency and deficiency are highly prevalent among critically ill patients ... These results demonstrate current replacement regimes are grossly inadequate.”
Sources:
http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2011/10/07/make-sure-you-are-never-deficient-in-this-vitamin-if-you-are-critically-ill.aspx
