The Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) Food and Nutrition Board (FNB) consulted with 14 vitamin D experts (the likes of Professor Robert Heaney at Creighton and Professor Walter Willet at Harvard) and after reading these 14 different reports – the FNB decided to suppress their reports. In December 2010, the Vitamin D Council directed their attorney to file a federal Freedom of Information (FOI) request to the IOM’s FNB for the release of these 14 reports. The FNB currently recommends 400 IU/day dose for infants and 600 IU/ day in pregnant women. Professor Bruce Hollis of the Medical University of South Carolina has shown pregnant and lactating women need at least 5,000 IU/day, not 600. Dr Hollis has also demonstrated that as much as 2000IU per day in pregnancy does not raise vitamin D to healthy levels.
