More powerful than "not recommended to use". Experts recommend not taking vitamin D to prevent fractures or falls

I published Vitamin D's dead horse on 2024-2-2. The reader left a message on Elliot 2024-12-18:

USPSTF update Kick another foot, 2018~2024 accumulated more new evidence, strengthening the previous (2018) suggestions, Vitamin D is recommended against as a way to prevent falls and fractures. (Moderator added: Recommended against is "recommended not to use", while Not recommended is "recommended not to use". The former is stronger than the latter)

The USPSTF mentioned in the message is a shrinking of US Preventive Services Task Force. USPSTF is a non-profit organization composed of many medical experts. It specializes in providing suggestions on whether various medical projects (such as screening and treatment) need to be implemented, and has a high status, and I have cited it many times.

The suggestion for 2018 mentioned in the message is these two articles:

2018-4-17: Vitamin D, Calcium, or Combined Supplementation for the Primary Prevention of Fractures in Community-Dwelling Adults (vitamin D, calcification or combined supplements are used for first-level prevention of adult fractures in community adults). USPSTF recommends that women should not replenish 400 IU or less vitamin D and 1000 mg or less per day to prevent fractures after community cessation.

2018-4-24: Interventions to Prevent Falls in Community-Dwelling Older Adults (Interventional measures to prevent falls in community-Dwelling Older Adults). USPSTF recommends that community residents aged 65 or older do not prevent falls by supplementing vitamin D. The USPSTF update mentioned in the message is Vitamin D, Calcium, or Combined Supplementation for the Primary Prevention of Falls and Fractures in Community-Dwelling Adults released on 2024-12-17. Its two suggestions are:

1. USPSTF recommends not to use supplemental vitamin D (with or without calcin) as a first-class prevention for fractures for women and men 60 or older who live in the community.

2.USPSTF recommends that women and men who live in the community should not prevent falls by supplementing vitamin D.

Although the USPSTF had suggested in 2018 that vitamin D supplements should not be used to prevent falls or fractures, the high-ranking New England Medical Journal also published two articles against the use of vitamin D supplements on July 28, 2022 (see Decisional Decision: Stop taking vitamin D supplements):

Research Article: Supplemental Vitamin D and Incident Fractures in Midlife and Older Adults (Midlife and Older Adults) and fracture events)

Editor review: VITAL Findings — A Decisive Verdict on Vitamin D Supplementation (About the most important findings — — Deterministic judgment on vitamin D supplements).

However, until now, many national-level orthopedic associations (including Taiwan) continue to suggest supplementation. Please see Vitamin D and Calcium? Can the Bone Relief Association’s suggestions be trusted? .

If readers are interested in knowing the discovery and evolution of Vitamin D, and how it was deified into an invincible spiritual pill by "mind people" %, then please read the truth about Vitamin D, and the new book is published.

I used vitamin D to search in the public medical library PubMed today, and nearly 110,000 articles appeared. If you conservatively estimate that the cost of a research article is 10,000 US dollars, then 110,000 articles will cost 1.1 billion US dollars.

However, compared with the unjust money spent by the people, this should be a little witch who meets the great witch.

Original text: Experts suggest not to take vitamin D to prevent fractures or falls

Responsible editor: Gu Zihuan