Here is just a short list of side effects from psychotropic drugs such as Prozac, Paxil, Ritalin, Zyprexa, Depakote and others:

• Anxiety, depression, impulsive behavior and obsession
• Anger, compulsion, temper tantrums and mood instability (this one, ironically, from a mood stabilizer drug)
• Social awkwardness, withdrawal, tics
• Sleep disturbances

• Separation anxiety
• Behavior problems
• Inattention and distractibility

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Technically not a “vitamin,” vitamin D is in a class by itself. Its metabolic product, calcitriol, is actually a secosteroid hormone that targets over 2000 genes (about 10% of the human genome) in the human body. Current research has implicated vitamin D deficiency as a major factor in at least 17 varieties of cancer as well as heart disease, stroke, hypertension, autoimmune diseases, diabetes, depression, chronic pain, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, muscle weakness, muscle wasting, birth defects, allergies, gum disease, diabetes, hypertension, and more.

A group of scientists from UCLA published a remarkable paper in the prestigious journal, Nature. The UCLA group confirmed two other recent studies, showing that vitamin D was, in effect, a potent antibiotic. Instead of directly killing bacteria and viruses,  it increases the body’s production of a class of proteins, called antimicrobial peptides. The 200 known antimicrobial peptides directly and rapidly destroy the cell walls of bacteria, fungi, and viruses, including the influenza virus, and play a key role in keeping the lungs free of infection.

Vitamin D does not exist in appreciable quantities in normal human diets. Sardines, herring and salmon have small amounts, as well as a mere 100 units of artificial Vitamin D in 8 ounces of milk.

If we don’t expose ourselves to the ultraviolet B radiation of sunlight, we must get vitamin D from dietary supplements.

Today, many humans make about 1,000 units of vitamin D from sun exposure, although up to 20,000 units in about 20 minutes would have been the norm in the past.

The inescapable conclusion is that vitamin D levels in modern humans are not just low - they are aberrantly low.
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