What is worth knowing about Vitamin D

WHAT IS WORTH KNOWING

about Vitamin D

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Dr. Gábor Lenkei

© Dr. Gábor Lenkei All rights reserved ISBN: 978-615-00-4492-7

Published by Vitaminvest Ltd. 1. edition, 2019

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Attention!

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Adequate amounts are key to great results

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Overdose?

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Why many think an overdose is possible?

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Hoax in the medical curriculum

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What is the truth, then?

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A breakthrough study

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Benefits of Vitamin D

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Immune system

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Heart, veins, blood pressure

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Muscles

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Greedy businessmen

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Bones and teeth

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Nervous system

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Big Pharma would make less money

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Female health, pregnancy

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Newborn babies, toddlers

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The prognosis will come true, after all

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Cancer

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Diabetes

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Watch out!

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Who is endangered by a large dose of vitamins?

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What am I asking of you?

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ATTENTION! The following information does not come from me.

It appeared in a medical journal in Hungary a few years ago.

If people took an ADEQUATE AMOUNT of Vitamin D it would result in •

35% less cancer!

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78% less people suffering from Type 1 diabetes*!

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90% less people getting influenza!

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7-10% less people dying of illness!

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2-3 years longer average life span!

Never before had I read anything like this, anywhere, written by doctors. It is truly shocking data!

Is it possible that adequate doses of Vitamin D alone would bring about such amazing changes?

And then, have been published in a scientific study?

Let’s get acquainted with Vitamin D!

*Type 1 diabetes: it comes into being by the body attacking itself, more precisely attacking the pancreatic insulin-producing cells. Subsequently, the body stops producing enough insulin resulting in diabetes. As insulin is needed to treat it, it is called insulin-dependent diabetes.

Type 1 diabetes is actually an autoimmune disease.

We are talking about an autoimmune disease when the immune system misses the mark and attacks the body or certain parts of the body instead of the pathogens, in an attempt to destroy it.

The origin of the word “autoimmune” goes back to Greek autos = self and to Latin immune = protected. Immune or protected means, in the medical sense, that the organism is safe, protected, ”immune” from the adverse effects of intruding pathogens, or substances unknown to the body. In an autoimmune disorder, the body actually fancies itself (autos = itself) to be a devastating intruder that must be removed. That’s why it attacks itself.

Only a weakened immune system behaves in this manner.

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ADEQUATE AMOUNTS ARE KEY TO GREAT RESULTS The 22-page scientific study makes it clear that we need at least 3,0004,000 IU (IU = International Unit) of Vitamin D per day. However, •

Standard nutrition provides 80-150 IU of it per day, one twentieth of the minimum necessary requirement, at best.

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Many people know we get Vitamin D not exclusively from the diet, but that it is also produced in our skin when exposed to sunlight (type B ultraviolet rays).

However, fewer people know that from October to March, for half a year or so, our climate does not allow sufficient light for our skin to produce sufficient amounts of Vitamin D.

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Nor are many people aware of the fact that we should sunbathe some every day for the rest of the year, too, from April to September, to increase our chances of producing an acceptable amount of vitamin D.

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It is good to know that more sunshine hitting our body does not mean a comparable increase in the Vitamin D produced in our skin. It is by no means certain that more sunbathing in itself is sufficient.

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The use of sunscreen will prevent the type B ultraviolet rays necessary to form Vitamin D from being absorbed into the skin and an exerting their effect.

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Though a number of tanning booths advertise it otherwise, the scientific fact is that the type A ultraviolet light radiation emitted by their tanning lamps is not capable of stimulating the formation of vitamin D in our skin.

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The darker the skin, the more sunlight and the more time it takes to produce Vitamin D in our body.

Black people should spend approximately ten times more time in the sun, so even in Africa, Vitamin D deficiency is not uncommon.

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It is also a scientific fact that as we age, our body is able to produce less and less Vitamin D.

It is not difficult to realize that weneed to take adequate amounts of good quality Vitamin D3.

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OVERDOSE? According to scientific research and contrary to earlier, widespread misconceptions, it is practically impossible to overdose on Vitamin D. Orally administered Vitamin D3 has to undergo further transformations in our body to become the activated Vitamin D that is able to produce the expected benefits.

However, our body produces only as much activated Vitamin D as it needs, so no more is produced than what is desirable.

Even extremely cautious medical literature* acknowledges that a regular, daily intake of 10,000 IU is absolutely safe.

In fact, we do not know how much Vitamin D would prove to be “too much”. I could only find estimates in medical literature that are, in fact, just assumptions. One of these assumptions* allows for more than 100,000 IU per day, being taken for a longer period of time, before being at risk of an overdose.

But this means one would need to take over 25 times more than 4,000!!!

Having realised this, it doesn’t make much sense to further elaborate on the subject.

Why would anybody constantly, routinely, day after day, take twenty-five times the adequate amount of a dose?

Scientific literature* reports about a case of someone mistakenly taking 4,000,000 IU of Vitamin D a day.

Four million! A thousand times more than 4,000 IU! Lo and behold, not even such a dose proved harmful!

An interesting fact: Overweight people need more Vitamin D because it is stored in fatty tissue where it is not utilized.

It has been stated in a scientific medical journal that Vitamin D stored in the fatty tissue of overweight people is absolutely harmless; even if the person slims down quickly and the “stored” vitamin is rapidly released.

We may casually forget about the wicked lie, disseminated rather broadly earlier, about the alleged dangers of fat soluble vitamins, such as Vitamin D.

*Source: Vitamin D intoxication: case report, einstein. 2014;12(2):242-4

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WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE THINK AN OVERDOSE IS POSSIBLE? Many believe an overdose is possible, because regretfully, medicine today does not use this piece of vital information: the various vitamins work together; they rely on each other! They are like members of a large, cohesive family.

In order to produce a real balance in the body, it is not enough to provide it with the adequate amount of a single vitamin only. The best results can be expected if we take adequate amounts of 15 different vitamins and in proper proportions.

Vitamin D is but one of the indispensable vitamins.

If we give someone vitamin D only, without giving him the rest of the necessary vitamins, in which he is equally deficient, we can really upset the balance.

This balance is not easy to overthrow, but it is possible.

In the case of vitamin D, this happens if one takes 25 times the daily dose, according to the medical data mentioned above.

For example, if we consume more than 100,000 IU instead of 4,000 IU every day and for a long time.

In fact, all that happened was that we upset the balance.

We gave too much of one vitamin, in the present case, Vitamin D, without giving adequate amounts of the rest of the vitamins. We could say, we gave too little of the other vitamins, compared to Vitamin D. What they call an “overdose” on some vitamin or other, only signifies that the rest of the vitamins were administered in insufficient amounts.

The symptoms of an “overdose” are, really, symptoms of a deficiency of all other, equally necessary vitamins, a piece of knowledge medicine regretfully does not apply, however vital.

In short, the symptoms of an apparent overdose on some vitamin or other are really symptoms of a deficiency of other vitamins.

Important rule!

If we take all the necessary vitamins in adequate amounts, it is logical that the phenomenon called an “overdose” cannot happen.

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HOAX IN THE MEDICAL CURRICULUM The previously stated data on the benefits of Vitamin D when consumed in the correct dose are from a medical journal!

The title is „Nationwide concensus* on the role of Vitamin D in preventing and treating illnesses”.

The birth of the announcement and the underlying work represent a monumental turning point in medicine. It is a huge turn, nothing short of a miracle, and very difficult to estimate the significance of at this point.

Why is it a huge turning point, nothing short of miracle?

I can make the answer clearer by showing you what poor training we doctors were given on the subject of vitamins.

To write this book, I picked up the bulky medical textbooks I used to study while attending university.

One textbook has the following to say about Vitamin D: “The body synthesizes it in adequate quantities in adulthood**.”

Then it warns us that 5-10 times the then recommended daily dose of 400IU, i.e “2,000-4,000 IU, already qualifies as a dangerous overdose”.

Another medical textbook states about Vitamin D: “Over 3 years of age an average, mixed diet usually covers the need.”

It continues thusly: “Overdose can cause severe symptoms of hypervitaminosis***.”

Everything else relating to vitamins in the medical textbooks, and not a whole lot is written, deals with the chemical aspects.

This was pretty much all the official curriculum had to say about vitamins.

There is no need for replacement and we should be very cautious with them, so as not to cause a serious overdose with serious consequences!

As if they were some kind of poison!

*Consensus: latin consensus **Synthesizes: from Greek sunthesis, meaning combined together. It means composed of components, built up. ***Hypervitaminosis: is a pathology allegedly caused by the adverse effects of too much of a particular vitamin.

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WHAT IS THE TRUTH, THEN? You see? That’s how we doctors were being educated. Pharmacists are no more fortunate, either. Sadly, this is with what we were indoctrinated. No wonder many doctors and pharmacists find it unnecessary, or rather dangerous, to consume adequate doses of vitamins and have no idea of the true value and importance of vitamins.

But now - despite it all - a milestone breakthrough has happened!

Twenty excellent Hungarian physicians, some of the most prominent representatives of the medical profession came together to discuss what was known to them and was scientifically proven regarding the benefits of Vitamin D. This is amazing all by itself!

Only the brightest people with brilliant minds would do this, who consider it their most important duty to lend a helping hand to their fellow human beings and to this end are willing to break with the inveterate traditions and approaches of orthodox* medicine.

This is a milestone event also because these top professionals are extremely busy people, for whom it is hard to find the time to research scientific information and to attend conferences on vitamins, a formerly overlooked topic.

Respect! They have paved the way towards a saner and better future, worthy of man.

Instead of repeating by rote the previously indoctrinated orthodox* medical curriculum, the following ideas open the joint resolution of twenty Hungarian physicians: • “Vitamin D deficiency is one of the biggest health-related problems in the civilized world.”

• “The solution to the problem calls for a cooperation across-the-board.”

• ”We want to bring professional decision-makers and lay public attention to the importance of the problem.”

Today, we also know that 3,000-4,000 IU of Vitamin D, which was previously classified as a dangerous overdose, is just the minimum required daily amount!

The world has changed a lot! Luckily for us! *Orthodox: derives from Greek Orthodoxos, meaning follower of the old way. Here I mean fossil or diehard by it.

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A BREAKTHROUGH SCIENTIFIC STUDY The study was published in the Medical Weekly, a professional journal. Most health-related data that appear in this book I adopted from the publication of these great Hungarian physicians.

Let the first page of the scientific study stand here as a tribute to the brilliant minds who contributed to a quantum leap towards the creation of a much better, dignified health culture.

RESOLUTUION

National consensus on the role of Vitamin D in the prevention and treatment of diseases dr. Takács István 1 ■ dr. Benkő Ilona 2 ■ dr. Toldy Erzsébet 3 dr. Wikonkál Norbert 4 ■ dr. Szekeres László 5 ■ dr. Bodolay Edit dr. Kiss Emese 7 ■ dr. Jambrik Zoltán 8 ■ dr. Szabó Boglárka 8 dr. Merkely Béla 8 ■ dr. Valkusz Zsuzsa 9 ■ dr. Kovács Tibor 10 dr. Szabó András 11 ■ dr. Grigoreff Orsolya 1 ■ dr. Nagy Zsolt 1 dr. Demeter Judit 1 ■ dr. Horváth Henrik Csaba 1 dr. Bittner Nóra 12 ■ dr. Várbíró Szabolcs 13 ■ dr. Lakatos Péter 1 1

Semmelweis University, Faculty of General Medicine, 1st Internal Medicine Clinic, Budapest 2

University of Debrecen, Center of Medicine and Health Sciences, Institute of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy, Debrecen 3

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Saint Andrew’s Rheumatology Hospital, Hévíz

University of Debrecen, Center of Medicine and Health Sciences, 3rd Internal Medicine Clinic, Debrecen

National Institute of Rheumathology and Physiotherapy, Budapest

Semmelweis University, Faculty of General Medicine, Cardiovascular Center, Budapest

University of Szeged, Faculty of General Medicine, Szent-Györgyi Albert Clinical Centre, 1st Department of Internal Medicine, Szeged Semmelweis University, Faculty of General Medicine, Department of Neurology, Budapest

Semmelweis University, Faculty of General Medicine, 2nd Department of Paediatrics, Budapest 12

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Markusovszky Hospital, Szombathely

Semmelweis University, Faculty of General Medicine, Skin and Venereal Pathology and Skin Oncology Clinic, Budapest 5

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National Institute of Oncology, Budapest

Semmelweis University, Faculty of General Medicine, 2nd Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Budapest

THE BENEFITS OF VITAMIN D The benefits of Vitamin D are extremely diverse and affect the entire body.

In the following chapters of the book I will describe to you in detail the effect of Vitamin D on the • immune system • heart, blood vessels, blood pressure • muscles • bones and teeth • the nervous system • women’s health and pregnancy • health of newborns and young children • role it plays in preventing cancer and diabetes.

Before that, at the outset, let me show you something interesting.

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The integrity of our skin also depends, to a great extent, on the amount of vitamin D we consume.

A number of skin disorders can be traced back to inadequate amounts of Vitamin D. However, when consumed in the right amount, it has a particularly positive impact on psoriasis.

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Even the agility of our thinking depends on vitamin D. In the absence of vitamin D our intellect deteriorates.

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Vitamin D enhances the production of collagen throughout the body, contributing to the maintenance of the integrity of the skin, joints, bones, teeth, and blood vessels.

It is useful to know Oral Vitamin D3 is better utilized if your diet includes fats. Fat consumption increases bile production, consequently improving the absorption of Vitamin D3.

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IMMUNE SYSTEM Effects of inadequate amounts of Vitamin D: • • •

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The immune system clearly weakens.

The risk of infectious diseases increases.

The immune system not only weakens, but its function becomes confused, irrational, “erratic”, and attacks things it should not react to at all.

As a result, the risk of allergic* reactions and autoimmune diseases** increases.

A smaller than necessary amount can provoke the flare up and worsening of already existing autoimmune diseases.

Effects of adequate amounts of Vitamin D: •

It strongly supports the functioning of the immune system.

Recently, it has become apparent that routinely taking an adequate amount of Vitamin D supplements is one of the most important prerequisites for the effective functioning of the immune system.

• It strengthens the white blood cells responsible for the destruction of intruding pathogenic bacteria and increases resistance to infections.

• It not only strengthens, but also regulates and thus directs the immune system in the desirable direction. We might say that it keeps it on the right track.

• For example, it reduces the likelihood of abnormal immune system activity, the chance of allergic* or autoimmune** reactions. In other words, it reduces the chances of the immune system responding faultily (or allergically) to attack the body itself (autoimmune disease).

• Properly administered, it can reduce the risk of developing autoimmune diseases.

• It has proven beneficial for already existing autoimmune diseases.

*Allergy: commonly referred to as hypersensitivity because the body reacts very strongly, to a degree that seems offensive to the person, to foods, pollen, or other substances that are considered to cause allergies. Allergies are not hypersensitivity, really, but an abnormal reaction to substances that would be totally indifferent to the body if the immune system were normal. The word “allergy” itself means this.

Greek allérgeia is derived from discrepant action. Only a weakened immune system behaves so confused, so abnormally. **Autoimmune Disease: For explanation, see footnote on page 4 in the description of Type 1 Diabetes.

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HEART, VEINS, BLOOD PRESSURE The effects of inadequate amounts of Vitamin D: • • • •

A lack of Vitamin D increases the risk of cardiomegaly, dilatation, and heart failure.

Experience has shown that heart failure in patients getting less Vitamin D is more severe than in those getting more.

A lack of Vitamin D can contribute to the development of high blood pressure.

Vitamin D deficiency increases the risk of atherosclerosis.

The effects of appropriate amount of vitamin D: •

Heart failure resulting from Vitamin D deficiency has been successfully reversed and put on the way of improvement by way of replenishing Vitamin D. • Abnormally high blood pressure has been successfully treated when administering appropriate amount of Vitamin D.

MUSCLES The effects of inadequate amounts of Vitamin D: • •

Muscles become flabby and weak.

Most of the more frequent, seemingly inexplicable, falls at an older age and the consequent femoral neck fractures happen on account of muscle weakness due to Vitamin D deficiency.

Effects of adequate amounts of Vitamin D: • •

It is indispensable for children’s muscles to develop properly.

In adulthood, it plays an important role in maintaining muscle strength.

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GREEDY BUSINESSMEN Research on vitamins peaked in the first half of the last century.

Unfortunately, in the same period, the pharmaceutical industry also grew strong.

The enormous profit made from the sale of low-cost but expensively sold medicines moved, for the most part, into the pockets of a handful of people.

It was pocketed by people who already held massive interests in the banking world, in the emerging chemical industry, and crude oil processing.

This small group also held in their hands the vast majority of the pharmaceutical industry that was just then starting to thrive.

The astonishing health promotion opportunities uncovered by vitamin research at the beginning of the last century became an increasingly serious threat to the owners of the rapidly expanding pharmaceutical industry.

This is because the proper use of vitamins would have decreased the number of people on drugs unprofitably for them.

These greedy businessmen must have been familiar with Nobel laureate Albert Szent-Györgyi’s prognosis of 1939: “When the workings of vitamins are exactly understood and themselves properly applied, we will be able to reduce human suffering so markedly that it is currently unimaginable even to the most brilliant minds”.

Szent-Györgyi predicted the future precisely!

It is clear from the announcement of the twenty Hungarian doctors that the proper use of Vitamin D alone would produce astounding health improvements, “unimaginable even to the most brilliant minds”.

As a reminder: • 35% less cancer!

• 78% less Type1 diabetes!

• 90% less influenza!

• 7-10% less people dying of illness!

• Average life span 2-3 years longer!

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BONES AND TEETH The effects of inadequate amounts of Vitamin D: • •

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Osteoporosis, more frequent bone fractures, bone pain.

Soft, bending bones with low calcium (known as osteomalacia).

In the case of young children this is called rickets* The period of losing baby teeth and getting permanent teeth is prolonged in young children and lasts longer than normal.

The teeth cannot develop smoothly: the enamel is not complete and healthy.

The effects of adequate amounts of vitamin D: • • • • •

It helps absorb calcium and phosphorus from the intestinal tract which are essential for bone formation.

Calcium obtained from the diet can only be utilized in the presence of vitamin D. It has a role in creating solid bone and tooth material.

It is indispensable for having intact, strong, flexible, but also solid, resistant bones and teeth.

It is indispensable for the renewal of bones and teeth.

If people were to get enough Vitamin D, the frequency of hip fractures, knowns as “femoral neck fractures” would decrease by 26%!

Important information!

As described in my book Censured Health Calcium absorption and utilization requires more than Vitamin D alone. For example, Vitamin C all by itself is capable of increasing the absorption of Calcium from the intestines up to 100%.

Scientific research has shown that bone density and, subsequently, bone integrity can first and foremost be improved through Calcium, Vitamin D, and Vitamin C taken with a variety of other vitamins and minerals, as a genuinely valuable multivitamin preparation.

*Rickets: When a child with severe Vitamin D deficiency does not have enough calcium build up in his bones, the bones remain soft and may even bend from the very weight of the body. The lower limbs, the spine, the chest, etc. become distorted.

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NERVOUS SYSTEM The effects of inadequate amounts of Vitamin D: •

It promotes the development of a number of neurological diseases, as clearly demonstrated in the case of - schizophrenia - multiple sclerosis and - dementia* with the elderly

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Research suggests it might have a role in the development of - Parkinson’s disease - epilepsy, - autism and - stroke**

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It is likely that Vitamin D deficiency plays a role in neuronal cell death as in Alzheimer’s disease.

Vitamin D deficiency increases the risk of developing so-called degenerative*** diseases, resulting in the degradation of the nervous system.

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The effects of adequate amounts of Vitamin D: • •

Providing expectant mothers adequate amounts of Vitamin D3 reduces the risk of the unborn child developing schizophrenia later on.

Reduces the likelihood of developing the following nervous system disorders: - schizophrenia - multiple sclerosis - dementia in the elderly - Alzheimer’s disease

*Dementia: from Latin mentis meaning intellect and from Latin de = away words. Literally, the loss of intellect and ability to think rationally. Mental decay. **Stroke: a cerebral circulatory disorder that causes the destruction of neurons. ***Degenerative: from degeneration, meaning decay. Degenerative = retrogressive. It’s an intangible, indistinct disease that gradually overturns a previously healthy area. The area concerned, such as the nervous system, deteriorates slowly, almost unnoticed, similarly to an uninhabited house that has been left behind, and that finally becomes completely ruined and useless.

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BIG PHARMA WOULD MAKE LESS MONEY Looking further through the scientific bulletin we find more astonishing data. According to the doctors’ calculation, the entire Hungarian population could be given adequate amounts of Vitamin D at the cost of approximately HUF 15 billion a year.

This, in itself, would improve the health of the Hungarians so much that health expenditures would decrease by approximately HUF 250 billion a year.

15 billion versus 250 billion!

It is only logical that the “unspent money” would be on the loss side of the ledger for the pharmaceutical industry. A loss of income amounting to HUF 250 billion! And every year! In a small country like Hungary!

If we consider the total population of the European Union (about 500 million people), we can calculate even more shocking numbers.

HUF 250 billion equals about EUR 800 million.

Multiplying it with the number of the entire population of the Union we are looking at an amount somewhere around EUR 40 billion. That’s how much money Vitamin D would extract from the pocket of Big Pharma.

And that’s just vitamin D! As early as 1939, Szent-Györgyi had clearly defined the great potential of vitamins.

Unfortunately, he was not the only one aware of it.

Had the proper use of vitamins broadly become a part of our culture, the designs of the lords of the pharmaceutical industry would have been wrecked.

They were quick to recognize this very real threat.

Unfortunately, too soon.

This is why the very promising research on vitamins could not be completed at the time.

This is why those super rich gentlemen launched a comprehensive and ongoing war* against vitamins. *Due to the importance of this topic, I have written a separate book on the subject, under the title Field Report on Anti-Vitamin Warfare.

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FEMALE HEALTH, PREGNANCY The effects of inadequate amounts of Vitamin D: • Vitamin D deficiency in pregnant women is extremely common.

Consequently - the pregnant mother develops bone loss - severe calcium deficiency occurs in the fetus • the risk of preeclampsia* increases • it has been shown that the children of Vitamin D deficient pregnant mothers are more at risk of developing schizophrenia.

Important information: in Hungary, multivitamins for pregnant women contain 400-500 IU of Vitamin D3 only.

Medical research suggests 4,000 IU of Vitamin D3 a day is safe to recommend for pregnant women.

The effects of adequate amounts of Vitamin D: •

Vitamin D enhances fertility and supports a desired pregnancy.

Important information: • In the womb, the risk to the fetus of Vitamin D deficiency is extremely high.

Therefore, to be on the safe side, adequate amounts of Vitamin D are recommended before the intended conception.

• In PCO syndrome** Vitamin D intake is essential.

• Vitamin D supplements during pregnancy reduce the risk of schizophrenia.

According to medical scientific literature, proper Vitamin D dosage is an important element of women’s health. At all ages.

*Preeclampsia: a disease with unknown cause, affecting 5-10% of pregnant women. It is characterized by abnormal amounts of protein appearing in the urine, due to high blood pressure and kidney damage. It is called pregnancy poisoning (toxemia).

The name came from the fact that if left untreated it can worsen to the point that the pregnant woman has a seizure (the medical name of the seizure is eclampsia). “Pre” means “before”, so pre-eclampsia is the state preceding the seizure. **PCO syndrome: an abbreviation of PolyCystic Ovary Polycystic means many (poli) cysts appearing in the ovary.

Syndrome comes from Greek sundromé, meaning flocking. It is the name of a group of symptoms of a certain disease listed by doctors.

It is thought that PCO in a female body is caused by the excessive production of male hormones.

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NEW BORN BABIES, YOUNG CHILDREN Important information: • For a newborn baby, breast milk is the only source of Vitamin D.

Young mothers should take at least 4,000-6,000 IU of Vitamin D3 a day for the breast milk to contain enough vitamin D for the baby.

• It can also be useful to give Vitamin D3 directly to the baby, as well.

- For those under 1 year 1,000 IU can be given confidently daily.

- For those over 1 year 2,000 IU can be given daily.

Effects of inadequate amounts of Vitamin D: •

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Symptoms of rickets*: - Growth Disorder - The spine gets distorted, hunchback - Curled, distorted lower limbs (e.g heavy X-legs) - Osteomalacia chest characterised by protruding sternum (pigeon-breast), as well as tumefaction developing on the ribs where the bones connect to the cartilage - The pelvic bone will be narrower than normal, which later may be problematic when giving birth - Babies with large, square heads. The area of the nape bone becomes flexibly compressible (the so-called ping-pong ball symptom) Vitamin D deficiency while a fetus in the womb, during infancy, and early childhood substantially augments the risk of Type 1 diabetes.

The effects of adequate amounts of Vitamin D: • • • •

Infants and young children develop properly Well developed muscles Strong, flexible, and healthy bones and teeth Vitamin D given during pregnancy and to young children substantially decreased the risk of Type 1 diabetes.

*Rickets: explained in the footnotes of page 15

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THE PROGNOSIS WILL COME TRUE, AFTER ALL I started studying vitamins 18 years ago.

G. Edward Griffin’s book The World Without Cancer made me realize that at Medical School we learnt practically nothing worthwhile about vitamins so I had no idea of their beneficial effects, which I later extensively studied.

Nobel laureate Professor Albert Szent-Györgyi’s prognosis confirmed I was on the right track.

I wanted to understand why we doctors did not learn anything about the amazing results of vitamins.

I wanted to find out why the Nobel laureate’s prognosis was not mentioned in the medical curriculum.

Everything I found, and everything you should know about it, I described in my first book, Censored Health, released in 2003.

It has been proven to me that Szent-Györgyi’s prognosis can become a reality. I was happy to publish all those enthusiastic reports reflecting the amazing results achieved with the correct use of vitamins.

I know now, from my own experience, what dangerous territory I was treading into.

I know it because they’ve been trying to ruin me. I suffered through a war that lasted six years. I won it, eventually, and I’m here to help you today!

Blissfully, things are much better today!

The world has changed plenty!

Today, a multitude of physician professors stand with the proper use of vitamins!

The genie is out of the bottle for good!

We are on the verge of a new health culture that will produce a great deal of unprecedented results.

We are on the threshold of a marvelous culture, but it may take some time for people to believe that all this is possible.

One thing is for sure: Albert Szent-Györgyi’s prognosis will come true!

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TUMORS The effects of inadequate amounts of Vitamin D: • • •

It increases the risk of developing cancer It clearly increases the likelihood of developing skin cancer Accelerates the worsening of melanoma malignum (mole cancer) Melanoma patients with Vitamin D deficiencies die sooner.

The effects of adequate amounts of Vitamin D: • • • • • •

It promotes healthy cell division, reduces the chance of degeneration in a cancerous direction.

It strengthens the functioning of white blood cells responsible for the destruction of cancer cells.

Taken in adequate amounts, it reduces the frequency of certain types of skin cancer.* It reduces the risk of breast, prostate, esophagus, and colon cancer.

In pre-menopause, when adequate amounts of Vitamin D were given, the frequency of breast cancer was found to decrease.

In postmenopausal women, adequate Vitamin D intake significantly reduced the incidences of breast and colon cancer.

The risk of colon cancer was found to be half of what it was with non-vitamin D patients.

Summary: Vitamin D undoubtedly carries an important antineoplastic effect with it.

If we all were to get enough Vitamin D, the number of tumor cases would decrease by 35%.

*It has been proven that adequate amounts of Vitamin D reduce the incidence of skin cancers called basaloma and spinalioma.

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DIABETES Effects of insufficient Vitamin D: • •

Vitamin D deficiency while in the fetal stage, during infancy, and in early childhood significantly increases the risk of developing Type 1 diabetes*.

Adult Vitamin D deficiency increases the risk of developing type 2 diabetes**.

Therefore, in the absence of Vitamin D, the risk of developing either type of diabetes (Type 1 and Type 2) is greatly increased.

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According to recent medical research, Vitamin D deficiency is likely to play a role in the development of many other hormonal (endocrine) diseases as well.

Effects of adequate amounts of vitamin D: • •

Reduces the risk of developing either type of diabetes.

In the absence of Vitamin D, the body will produce less insulin, but this unfavorable state can be reversed by replacing Vitamin D in sufficient amounts.

If everybody would consume adequate amounts of Vitamin D, 78% less Type 1 diabetes would occur.

*Type 1 diabetes: is created by the body attacking and destroying itself, more precisely the insulin producing cells in the pancreas. Subsequently, the body does not produce enough insulin, resulting in diabetes. Insulin is needed to treat it, so it is called insulin-dependent diabetes.

Type 1 diabetes is actually an autoimmune disease. For a more detailed explanation of autoimmune diseases, see footnote 4. **Type 2 diabetes: it is also called late-onset, adult, and non-insulin-dependent diabetes. Medicine seeks to explain it with genetic reasons.

In my view, the state is merely the result of an unhealthy life style and excessive sugar consumption.

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WATCH OUT! Please, do not make the mistake of thinking it is enough to take adequate amounts of Vitamin D and all will be well.

It would be self-deception.

The doctors’ warning touches on more than just Vitamin D. In fact, it should be reworded as follows: “In the civilized world one of the biggest health problems is that we are not getting adequate amounts of any single important vitamin to keep us healthy and prevent disease.”

We are deficient in vitamins A, B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B12, C and E, as well as vitamin-like biotin, choline, inositol, PAB, and folic acid.

We are also deficient in calcium, magnesium, iron, zinc, manganese, copper, iodine, chromium, selenium, and a good many other things.

In this book I only relate the amazing results stemming from the correct use of Vitamin D. There is another very important thing I have to share with you.

Despite of all its wonderful benefits Vitamin D is neither more important nor more valuable than any other vitamin!

Any of the vitamins, when faithfully examined, would lead us to similarly marvelous scores and conclusions!

I have countless proof of this.

Do not forget!

Vitamins are members of a large synergistic family.

They help and support each other’s function in genuine teamwork.

The best results can be expected when using all the fifteen prime vitamins* conjointly.

*The 15 most important vitamins are vitamins A, B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B12, C, D and E and also biotin, choline, inositol, PAB, and folic acid, which do not have the word “vitamin” in their name, but are nevertheless vitamins.

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WHO IS AT RISK BECAUSE OF LARGE DOSES OF VITAMIN D? The concept of a “high-dose of vitamin” has been invented by professionals in the strategic planning of the pharmaceutical industry and widely distributed to dispel people from consuming the RIGHT AMOUNT OF VITAMIN! They are the ones responsible for spreading anxiety about “too much of a vitamin may cause trouble”.

A smart ploy, my word! Next thing you know, it will be “too much of a vitamin” and a “large dose of vitamin” leads straight to this concept.

“Too much vitamin” is the synonym of “vitamins can be dangerous”, we’d better be careful with them not to get into trouble because of taking too much vitamin.

Nobel laureate Albert Szent-Györgyi said: „Vitamins are a substance that cause disease when not consumed.”

There is no such thing as a large dose of vitamins! There is only an adequate dose of vitamins!

What makes sense is to talk about adequate doses!

Doses that really bring about excellent results.

• 35% less cancer!

• 78% less Type1 diabetes!

• 90% less influenza!

• 7-10% less people dying of illness!

• Average life span getting 2-3 years longer!

And all the rest of the other benefts I’ve listed on the previous pages.

The right dose – I admit – is indeed a very large; a dangerously harmful dose for Big Pharma!

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To lose 800 million euros per year in a small country like Hungary?

To lose € 40 billion in potential revenue annually counting only the population of the European Union with 500 million inhabitants?

How much would this amount to if we counted the total population of Earth?

And this is Vitamin D only!

Is it possible that if all of the vitamins were properly applied, Big Pharma would be floored?

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WHAT AM I ASKING OF YOU? Avail yourself to the great opportunities that are at your disposal.

Attain a much higher quality of life! Experience and relish the joys of a more dignified existence!

What do you need to do to make this a reality?

First and foremost you must learn.

It is very likely that your thinking has been contaminated by the fictitious lies cooked up and widely disseminated by Big Pharma strategists*.

Some examples: • “In the summer, I eat lots of fruits and vegetables, I do not need vitamins.”

• “There is nothing wrong with me, I am fine, it does not make sense to take vitamins.”

• “Fat-soluble vitamins may accumulate in the body and cause trouble.”

• “Too much Vitamin C causes kidney stones.”

• The very idea that there can be “large doses of vitamins” and that one has to be careful not to take “too much” of a vitamin.

Get things straight in your head! Separate duck-bill** from wheat.

Separate lies from the truth. If you do not do this you will remain forever gullible.

Get the true data!

I tell this to my colleagues and those coming to us: Knowledge is more important than vitamins!

If I had to choose whether to give vitamins to a new interested person, or a book from which he can acquire basic knowledge essential to a healthier and happier life, then I would chose the book, without a second thought.

*Strategy: from Greek strategos, Commander-in-Chief. A person who thoroughly plans a battle or an entire war scheme in order to defeat his opponent **Duck-bill: The useless debris and rubbish mixing into the wheat when threshing harvested wheat, which need to be removed to obtain valuable, usable raw material, pure, edible wheat.

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If you have true data, you will not fool yourself with the idea that fruits and vegetables provide your body with sufficient amounts of vitamins.

In my first book, Censored Health, I have published accurate calculations as to the extent to which the vitamin and mineral content of our foods has decreased. I describe how far the amounts we get from nutrition are from the amounts we actually need to keep our health at high levels and to prevent disease. If you know the truth, they will no longer be able to deceive you.

When you know this area more thoroughly, you will understand that vitamins are useful first and foremost in the maintenance of high levels of health and in preventing diseases.

Once you know the truth, nobody can trick you anymore.

Read! Embrace vital knowledge!

Become a trained, competent, proud, independent you with adequate information to make self-determined and educated decisions about your own health and life.

My books will help you in this thrilling adventure.

I wrote them for you, with great care and love.

Help your loved ones, friends, and fellow men!

Let them know that a better life, a quality life is available to them.

Together we can build the new health culture we have always longed for in the depths of our hearts.

Do not forget!

We were all born with great consciousness of and a very strong faith in a beautiful, worthwhile, dignified, healthy, creative life.

Never allow anyone to break down your faith in a better life!

Keep up the certainty in your heart that truth, though at times it takes a long route with detours, ultimately always triumphs!

I wish you much success.

With friendship: Dr. Gábor Lenkei

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FIND OUT! • • • • • •

What life expectancy is encoded in our genes?

How can you live a long, healthy life?

Who took control of medical training and how?

How high is the profit margin of the pharmaceutical industry?

Whatever happened to our food?

What can you do for yourself to achieve a more enjoyable, healthier life?

This is the book that started a modern vitamin culture in Hungary in 2003.

Bestseller!

160.000 copies in readers’ hands!

It’s basic!

Be sure to read it!

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DO NOT SETTLE FOR LESS!

This book provides you with the most important information you will need to cleverly use vitamins and enjoy maximum benefits.

A concise, straightforward publication.

You can read it through during tea-time.

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