{"id":11236,"date":"2018-08-20T08:42:51","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T12:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11236"},"modified":"2018-08-20T08:42:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T12:42:51","slug":"the-man-who-sold-america-on-vitamin-d-and-profited-in-the-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11236","title":{"rendered":"The Man Who Sold America On Vitamin D \u2014 And Profited In The Process"},"content":{"rendered":"

(By Liz Szabo for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n

Dr. Michael Holick\u2019s enthusiasm for vitamin D can be fairly described as extreme.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Boston University endocrinologist,\u00a0who perhaps more than anyone else is responsible for creating a billion-dollar vitamin D sales and testing juggernaut, elevates his own levels of the stuff with supplements and fortified milk. When he bikes outdoors, he won\u2019t put sunscreen on his limbs. He has written book-length odes to vitamin D, and has warned in multiple scholarly articles about a\u00a0\u201cvitamin D deficiency pandemic\u201d\u00a0that explains disease and suboptimal health across the world. Continue reading article here…<\/a><\/p>\n

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n

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