Recomendation

Kalle Pihlajasaari
Here are some of my thought in Vitamin-D. They have not been properly edited yet, mostly snapshots of replies I have made to people on social media.

The Global Vitamin-D Market in 2012 was 100 metric ton per year. The bulk at 80% went to animal feed to prevent them dying in factory farms where they do not see the sun. Only 20% goes towards human food fortification, nutritional supplements and other prescription medication and exotic metabolites and compounds.

So we have 20 ton per year. The price a year ago was US$2000-7000 per kg. So the global value of the Vitamin-D market in human nutrition is maximum, wait for it, $7000 * 20'000kg = US$140'000'000 PER YEAR GLOBALLY.

Contrast that with tens of billions of dollars for just the the current vaccine.

Also most Vitamin-D is made in China and India because there is very little money to be made in the manufacturing (physiological adult dose is around US$1.00 per year). Every country should have enough production capacity to be strategically self sufficient in this essential pro-hormone.

However about 14 months ago I did some little sums and a physiological dose for every person on the planet would require about one ton per day (the numbers were obliging for 200ug and 5'000'000 adults) or a total of 365 tons for a year instead of the 20 tons that we currently consume. This would increase the cost somewhat (but economies of scale would reduce it down to at least the low ball figure of US$2000/kg) so now we would have an industry of $2000 * 365'000kg = US$730'000'000 PER YEAR GLOBALLY.

The global defence budget is UD$1'800'000'000'000 per year or 2500 times larger than the remedy, hard to display on a pie chart actually. I think globally we could spare the 0.04% of defence spending to make people healthier.

The global pharmaceutical industry turnover is UD$1'200'000'000'000 per year or 1600 times larger and published research has shown that giving Vitamin-D to older folk would result in a NETT saving in money JUST from reduction in cancer treatments required (many other savings in parallel). Granted that would reduce the pharmaceutical industry turnover but I truly believe they can afford some reduction in profits.

Basically the Vitamin-D industry is a thorn in the side of big pharma. Deficiency makes them an absurd amount of money.

The paper describing these savings is in the list in the original posting, if you cannot follow that link someone is censoring your facts. I will provide the DOI, the direct link and you can also search PubMed on the title.

DOI:_10.1002/1878-0261.12924

cholecalciferol.miraheze. org/wiki/DOI#DOI:_10.1002/1878-0261.12924

https://cholecalciferol.miraheze.org/wiki/DOI#DOI:_10.1002/1878-0261.12924

Vitamin D supplementation to the older adult population in Germany has the cost‐saving potential of preventing almost 30 000 cancer deaths per year