Be Careful What You Swallow

A study was just published with exclamatory headlines warning about vitamin D and calcium raising the risk of kidney stones.  They studied the blood and urine of 163 healthy, postmenopausal women for a year.  Investigators gave the women from 0-4,800 iu of vitamin D and raised their calcium to 1,200 – 1,400 mg/day. 1/3 of […]

Supplement Content and Purity

Health advocate Gary Null has provided an unintentional educational lesson for those of us using dietary supplements. Taking one of his own products, he developed vitamin D toxicity. As there have been only a few cases of vitamin D toxicity ever reported, there is an inevitably interesting story behind this announcement. The story is that […]