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May 21Liked by Dr. Syed Haider

Very interesting Dr Haider! I would love to see more info about vitamin D supplementation. Your statements about it align with that of Dr Pam Popper’s! Rarely do you hear that disease itself may lower vitamin D levels. Many seem to be saying low vitamin D levels make us susceptible to disease. Can both be true?

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Yes, I thought about it some more, and it may not necessarily be a bad thing to raise the levels of vitamin D, because the manifestation of autoimmune disease itself is mistakenly thought to be a "problem" when it is likely the body trying to reach a resolution (by attacking cells that have been infiltrated for example), which wasn't possible without high enough vitamin D. So what exactly is going on in a specific patient could vary. Oversupplementing vitamin D should cause problems like any over supplementation, but that doesn't mean that supplementing is always necessarily harmful, especially if via some natural avenue like eating more cod liver. On the other hand just because it's "natural" like a cod liver doesn't mean it's healthy to over eat it. Theres a lot of complexity and it's impossible to give 1 size fits all advice around vitamin D. Even more sun might be harmful for some people with photosensitivity until they detox seed oils and build a solar "callous," etc.

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Thanks for your thoughts about vitamin D! I can appreciate that complexity exists around it. I just wish more physicians/experts also presented a more balanced approach to it. The scale seems to be tipped in favor of high dose vit D supplementation since covid. I think it was Dr Pam Popper who said that vit D levels can fluctuate throughout the day and also that it is stored in our fat tissue, so the possibility exists that serum vit D level in labwork may not be correct (not sure if this was Dr Popper or I read it somewhere else).

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Agree with everything you said especially natural sunlight. Sadly another reason people don't change, I believe, is because the withdrawal or discomfort they go thru to get better makes them think they are getting worse OR they just want the quick fix (usually meds) and since then their problem has gone away (with meds but not really) they just continue. Sad world.

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My wife and I paid for ivermectin for her and myself over a week ago and we have not received it yet

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Sorry, just now seeing this. We will look into it and take care of it ASAP. In the future the best avenues of communication are the patient portal, email: welcome@mygotodoc.com, or phone: 281-393-8266.

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The problem with toxins is very real. But there is more to it than that. This was first gone over in a big way in Dianetics. Follow up work confirmed the importance of spiritual factors.

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