I don’t know if the show today was a repeat or not, it may have been.
As I’ve mentioned before, I basically like Dr. Oz. My biggest problem with him is that he does not go into enough detail most of the time, and people become mislead about what they should be doing to best tend to their own health.
Today it was about vitamin D.
A bunch of vitmin D sources were covered, including a lot of enriched foods. What frustrates me, is that if you read the labels of a lot of enriched foods, you will find that they often use a form of vitamin d2…D TWO…as the source of vitamin D. Vitamin D3…THREE…has been shown to be a far superior source of vitamin D when taken to increase D levels as effectively as possible.
Countless foods use the inferior D2, likely because it is cheaper to use, increasing the product’s profit margin, while still enabling them to claim that there is vitamin D in the product as nothing more than a marketing pitch.
I am uncertain whether the same measurement of daily values would apply to the D2 vs the D3, but I’m tending to lean towards the idea that there is no differentiation. And if there is not, consumers are being mislead constantly about exactly how high that percentage listed on the label really applies to their individual needs. If we’re being told that we’re getting “100% of the Daily Value” of vitamin D (which according to vitamin D expert Dr. Holick is extremely low, and I completely concur) yet the D supplied is D2…are we REALLY getting that 100% of our alleged need?
Then they briefly covered mushrooms, and showed a product that is specially grown in UV light to increase the amount of vitamin D present in the shroom…just bizarre to me…why people are growing food in UV light instead of the sun. I believe it’s highly probable that food grown in the sun has components to it that we don’t even understand yet; sub-atomic workings of the sun that feed the plants that in turn create micro nutrients on a level that we intuitively “know” are natural and healthy for us, but perhaps we can’t yet explain.
Kinda like getting our D from the sun instead of tanning beds…yes, the tanning beds will work, but short time spent in the sun is almost definitely more beneficial on multiple levels.
So it’s again the omissions that concern me.
Because I know my local health food store gets bombarded after every Dr. Oz show with product requests that Dr. Oz discussed. I’ve witnessed it first hand, and know the store workers personally. They often feel the same frustration I do about what is being promoted on Dr. Oz’ show.
Again…he’s not BAD.
He just needs a lot of improvement.
Love, Happiness, Health and Peace…………..Tim
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