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Oct 30, 2026
OpieHOST
My grandparents.
OpieHOST
Rickets.
OpieHOST
Rickets.
OpieHOST
I'll acknowledge I'm old, but I'm not bumps old.
OpieHOST
I'm not bumps old.
Dariush MozaffarianGUEST
Night blindness, which is vitamin A deficiency.
Dariush MozaffarianGUEST
Rickets, which is terrible bone deformities, which is vitamin D deficiency.
Dariush MozaffarianGUEST
These were endemic diseases where you had children that were afflicted by these conditions.
Mark HymanHOST
And so...
Sten EkbergHOST
One microgram is 40 international units of vitamin D.
Sten EkbergHOST
The hallmark of a deficiency is called rickets.
Sten EkbergHOST
Rickets is a softening of bone.
Sten EkbergHOST
It's a malformation of bones.
Sten EkbergHOST
When the calcium can't get deposited because we don't have enough vitamin D, the bones get soft and crooked and misshapen.
Sten EkbergHOST
One microgram is 40 international units of vitamin D.
Sten EkbergHOST
The hallmark of a deficiency is called rickets.
Sten EkbergHOST
Rickets is a softening of bone.
Sten EkbergHOST
It's a malformation of bones.
Sten EkbergHOST
When the calcium can't get deposited because we don't have enough vitamin D, the bones get soft and crooked and misshapen.
Mick MolloyHOST
It's hard to avoid gout, too.
Mick MolloyHOST
Rickets.
Mick MolloyHOST
His rickets.
Mick MolloyHOST
I don't know.
speaker_1HOST
Exactly.
speaker_1HOST
If you mistakenly diagnose them with a standard Ricketts variant and prescribe active vitamin D, you will violently accelerate that hypercalceria and destroy their renal function.
speaker_0HOST
Wow.
speaker_0HOST
So just to summarize that segment, the phosphopenic disorders are purely driven by phosphate loss, splitting neatly into those with pathological fibroblast growth factor 23 excess and those with transporter defects that lead to hypercalceria.
ChinPANELIST
What is that?
Bryan CallenHOST
Rickets is a calcium deficiency.
Bryan CallenHOST
It's when you don't have enough nutrition.
Brendan SchaubHOST
Real fragile bones.
Stephen LukawskiHOST
Mm-hmm.
Jim HamiltonGUEST
And, um, he talked about how they used to detail pharmacists and doctors on vitamins for- Rickets, as an example.
Jim HamiltonGUEST
For scurvy.
Jim HamiltonGUEST
[laughs] Um, and, and so many of the vitamins were, were supported and sold as, as treatments for these, these, um, tremendous kind of, uh, malnutrition situations, which very much existed, right, in sort of, uh, the war years and post-war years-