The Politics Of Nutrients: Why Does "Vitamin D" Get All The Love? A Vanguard Of Academic Nutritionists Have Turned Against It, Even In Some Cases Calling It "Rat Poison"

Yes, There Are Vitamin D Skeptics. Let's Begin To Listen, At Least. Could They Be Right?

I was a prepared, if resistant mind for the growing D-wars, because Jim Stephenson Jr., one of the radical pioneers of “Vitamin D”dissent, wrote to me on FB about it, when I posted that I had overdosed on D, misreading the label. I’ve never had much of a relationship with vitamin D, other than that I forget to take it, except a few days a year, when I remember. Dare I say the “frequency” of it never attracted me? I just never get off the ground with it. Jim Stephenson told me never to take it. I still waffled, even after I started reading him. I felt I needed to at least take occasional symbolic amounts of D, even though I didn’t “resonate” with it, ever.


Stephenson’s been studying, writing and broadcasting to expose the Vitamin D Myth, as he sees it, for over 20 years. Here’s an outtake from one of his FB posts:

”Do I have to explain that it’s a SCIENTIFIC FRAUD to tell people or get PUBLISHED in a paper that “Vitamin D” drops in the winter due to a lack of uvb creating D3?

It’s an outright lie. Literally. But it sells tons of dead lifeless photonless pills of fake sunshine. Mostly made from sheep wool. Say baa baa to your health believing this.

Slaying Myths that steer your behavior.

Everyone’s low in Vitamin D! Covid is here and our D is lower, it’s WINTER. Omg. We’re gonna freakin’ die.

Not so fast. The graphic is meant to instill fear. It’s the inactive storage form. 25D.

Here’s reality. The nature of 1,25D. The active form.

Hector DeLuca

Absence of Seasonal Variation in Serum Concentrations of 1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D Despite a Rise in 25-Hydroxyvitamin D in Summer

The serum concentrations of the vitamin D metabolites 25-hydroxyvitamin D2 (25OHD2), 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 (25OHD3), and 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D (calcitriol) have been measured in normal subjects whose ages varied from 18 months to 35 yr. Samples were obtained in all months of the year in order to assess the effects of season on serum concentration. During the months of April to September, 25OHD3 levels are higher than in the winter months. No seasonal variation in the 25OHD2 or calcitriol serum concentration was observed.”

I also am fascinated by the work of Jason Hommel, who I turn to for many clues, presently what more copper might do for me. I think copper has affected my whole family history. I’m ready to study it. (Hommel has a book out soon, on copper.)

He has written a very straightforward article about why he doubts the Vitamin D industry’s claims here.

I also highly recommend his writings on iodine

I’m taking much more iodine now. I tested deep positive for Lyme and Bartonella a few weeks ago, went through a short period of despondency, and am now seeking and testing mostly anti-biotic free approaches, though I must confess I did take Rifampin for a while. If I can beat chronic lyme (mostly manifesting as melancholic brain fog) without antibiotics, I’d like to.

—Infrared saunas

—Ice baths

—CD (MMS)

—Pine Oil (Turps)

—Coffee Enemas

These are some of my main counter-measures.