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Horst Goering, 80+ years
Retired Professor at the Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany
Married 58 years to Svetlana Koshuchowa
2 children, and 3 grandchildren - living in the US and Germany

The beginning, by Horst Goering

During all the years at the university my health was not very good. For this and other reasons I left the university life and applied myself in different fields, years after retirement. My health was sometimes better, sometimes worse. A few years ago (2013), my situation could be described as following:

• Chronic pain in the neck, shoulders, back and right leg. Diagnosis: a slipped disk. Surgery was recommended. I declined.
• Two or three times a year I had a very heavy flu or cold (4-6 weeks recovery with antibiotics)
• Tiredness and intensive nightly sweating
• Neurodermitis
• Gum inflammation and chronic periodontitis
• Shingles (Herpes Zoster) two or three times a year
• General weakness and powerlessness
• Lack of motivation and signs of depression
• Irritable bowel syndrome for more than 50 years

Vitamin D therapy - did it work?

Was it time to go? I was already more than eighty years old and, maybe, that was it? My wife's situation was not much better. In the summer of 2013, both my wife and I had no strength, no drive, just weakness ...!  I asked my doctor to check my vitamin D level again. The result: 19.6 ng/ml. At this time my doctor, without hesitation, prescribed Dekristol (20,000 IU vitamin D). I started a vitamin D-therapy according to von Helden. This means, first day - 200,000 IU, then 5 days each time 20,000, later 20,000 IU every third day. After 2-3 weeks I felt already better. (7 weeks later his vitamin D level was 42 ng/ml).

At present, 2 years after the beginning of vitamin D-therapy, we are back to life. I test my vitamin D levels twice a year and they are usually about 70 ng/ml. I take 50,000 IU/week. What happened during that time?

• After only 4 days, the pain in the neck and shoulders disappeared
• After about 3 weeks, nightly sweating disappeared
• After 4 - 6 weeks, gum inflammation and chronic periodontitis was gone
• After 6 - 8 weeks, all symptoms of neurodermitis vanished
• I no longer suffer from flu or cold
• The same is true for shingles (Herpes Zoster)
• Even my colon is working quite normal now

Life again!

Vitamin D? I think you can say that I am the living example that it is possible to turn just before the cemetery gate back into the stream of communal living thanks to vitamin D. The same is true for my wife, for our immediate neighbors, for some friends, for a lot of other people who came to my lectures or were reading my flyers and pamphlets, in Germany and in Moscow and even some in the US. Each of us is an individual case - a "meaningless nothing" to the statistic-driven modern medicine. But for me it means everything! It makes the difference between death and life. My life!

Vitamin D proponent and researcher

Since 2013 I have spent all my time studying the hormone cholecalciferol, so-called "vitamin D". I started sharing my knowledge with friends and other people, about what I had read and what my own experiences of its effects on me were. Some hundreds of them improved their quality of life to different degrees after vitamin D-therapy. One of my flyers came to an editor of the journal Biochemistry. At the end of October 2014, I was asked to write a review on vitamin D; I did not know what to do. At our age? After all we suffered?! Neither my wife nor I have medical training, we are "just" biologists and long retired. Nevertheless, we agreed and you can read this paper.

What would Horst tell a neighbor about vitamin D?

What about vitamin D? It means cholecalciferol, a hormone, the so-called vitamin D. This is a unique compound in nature. We cannot synthesize it by ourselves. There is some amount in our food, at best, about 10% of what we need. But it is synthesized by UV-B-irradiation in our skin if there is enough sunshine. We need it urgently and permanently from our childhood up until old age. An optimal level of vitamin D protects us against 60 to 80% of all age-related diseases, against pain in neck, shoulder, back etc., against cold and flu. Vitamin D regulates our power of resistance.

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