At that time, we didn't even know to ask the questions about, does vitamin D prevent preterm birth, and preeclampsia, and preterm diabetes, and all this other stuff. So we ran a study, and when the data were analyzed, this was where it's frowned upon. They said, we analyzed the data, and we said, look at this, vitamin D is preventing preterm birth, and it's preventing complications of birth. And I presented it at a meeting, it was in 2009, and I mean, the audience went crazy in the wrong way. I mean, I was attacked, how dare you say this, you know, this is heresy, this can't be true. You know, I mean, it was incredible. So when you interview data like that, you better be prepared to be hammered. Wow. Wow. And then, you know, since that time, it basically had shown, there was an article that we did called the VDART study at Harvard, it was done with Scott Wise, who was a world-renowned asthma specialist. And we found out that vitamin D could, if you give enough vitamin D, especially like preconception, you could basically eliminate childhood asthma. But no one will, you know, the data are clear, if you analyze them in the appropriate fashion, like is discussed in this Townsend Newsletter article, and even Wise chimes in. And we learned a lot from that study, like we do from all these studies that you needed to give more, you needed to correct baseline levels, and you could, you know, there would hardly ever be another childhood asthma child born if mothers were replete when they conceived, or even started taking it early when they found out they're pregnant. You know, most of our studies were in the first trimester, because that's when they walk in and they figure out they're pregnant. You know, you can't, to do pre-term, or preconception studies is hugely, but that's when it would be most, because the vitamin D deficiency in the trials that we run is mostly missed in the first trimester, because you don't even want to know they're pregnant. So you're only getting a hold of 12 weeks or so, or maybe later than that.
当時は、ビタミンDが早産や子癇前症、早発性糖尿病などを予防するかどうかという質問すら知らなかった。そこで私たちは研究を実施し、そのデータを分析したのですが、そこで顰蹙を買ったのです。私たちはデータを分析し、ビタミンDは早産を予防し、出産時の合併症を予防していることを明らかにしました。2009年のことですが、ある学会でそれを発表したところ、聴衆は悪い意味で熱狂しました。こんなことをよくも言えたものだ、こんなことは異端だ、真実であるはずがない、と。つまり、信じられないことだったんだ。だから、ああいうデータをイ