I just want to make a few comments, since I seem to be reading all pro-
supplementation of vitamin D.  Vitamin D is one of the most toxic supplements on
the market.  Thus, I would suggest due care in supplementing yourself or your
infants.  Most of the articles I have read on the need for this supplementation
state or imply that exclusive breastfeeding can cause an infant to be
deficient in vitamin D because breastmilk is deficient in vitamin D.  Should we accept
this kind of thinking regarding this issue?  I think not.  Babies are
sunlight deficient due to modern day living and the ignorance of parents on this
issue.  Breastmilk is not deficient.  Thinking on this issue is deficient.

Dr. Hollick not only has papers on this issue, he also has patents.  There
are many patents on the makings of synthetic vitamin D.  Not only do researchers
have an interest in vitamin D but also the US government has interests in
this area, including patenting.

I would also like to make people aware that vitamin D is used as a
rodenticide.  Many anticoagulents are used to kill rats--like warfarin.  And most of us
are aware of the toxic nature of this regulated drug.  But vitamin D is also
used to kill rats.  And yes certainly it is in high doses unlike what we would
get in a supplement.  But I believe due caution should be used in regard to
self-supplementing of this vitamin.  I was born in Northern Ontario Canada and
my mother took me outside even during the winter months (she couldn't get me to
take cod liver oil-I spit it out most times).  Of course that was in 1951,
back when people went outside.
Valerie W. McClain, IBCLC

http://www.drpeay.com/Article31.phtml
"The last category of rodenticides is those containing cholecalciferol or
vitamin D (Quintox, Rampage, Ortho Mouse-B-Gone, Ortho Rat-B-Gone). As little as
1g bait per pound body weight can cause toxicity in the dog. Young dogs appear
to be more sensitive. These rodenticides act by causing vitamin D toxicosis,
raising serum calcium levels to dangerously high levels. Clinical signs arise
within 18 to 36 hours after ingestion, and include depression, anorexia,
increased urination and increased water intake. Muscles are affected by high
calcium, and the animal becomes very weak. Heart conduction becomes slowed, and
ventricular fibrillation and cardiac arrest may result."

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