Gary Null lost his lawsuit as he had no damages.
Michael Holick was the doctor that "cured" Gary
No D3
Diuretics.
In 3 months Gary had no damage to anything other than his ego.
Is 2,000,000 IU/day of vitamin D toxic?
Ask Gary Null, alternative medicine guru and entrepreneur. He took his own supplement, Ultimate Power Meal, for a month and became extremely ill; one batch of Power Meal apparently contained 1,000 times more vitamin D than it should. That is, it contained 2,000,000 IU of vitamin D3 per serving instead of 2,000 IU per serving. Mr. Null became sicker and sicker as he gulped it down.
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After suing his own supplier for permanent physical damage, Mr. Null then reported it took 3 months to get the extra vitamin D out of his system and that he is now alive and well.
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If Mr. Null took it for the full month that he claims, and if his Power Meal contained 2,000,000 IU per dose, Mr. Null consumed 60,000,000 IU in one month. Could he really be fine now with no lasting injuries?
In an attempt to answer that question, I went back to the 1930s and 40s.
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METRO
Putting the ‘die’ in diet
By Dareh Gregorian
April 28, 2010 | 4:00am
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'THIN' ICE: Gary Null is suing a New Jersey company for allegedly putting toxic amounts of Vitamin D in his Ultimate Meal product (inset).GaryNull.com
That’s not exactly a ringing endorsement.
Nutrition guru Gary Null says he was almost killed by eating a dietary supplement — his own.
In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, the controversial alternative-medicine advocate says he suffered “mentally and physically” after eating his Gary Null’s Ultimate Power Meal.
Over the month Null, 65, ate the powdered product, he suffered “excruciating fatigue along with bodily pain,” and “began to suffer from extreme cracks and bleeding from within his feet,” the suit says.
“Null had to be in bed with his feet elevated because it was so painful he did not have the strength to walk” — but he kept eating Gary Null’s Ultimate Power Meal, “thinking that it would help him and relieve his condition.”
Instead, it made it worse, according to the suit, which blames a contractor that mixed the powder.
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The health nut went to see his doctor, and tests showed he had elevated levels of Vitamin D in his system. He later discovered that the Ultimate Power Meal had 1,000 times the amount of Vitamin D than the label claimed.
That meant that instead of ingesting 2,000 IU of Vitamin D daily, he was ingesting 2 million IU, the suit says. Most doctors recommend 1,000 IU a day.
Null said he was later told that if he hadn’t visited his doctor when he did, “he could have died within a short period of time.”
When Null discovered what the problem was, he “sequestered himself and fasted, only consuming massive amounts of water, as he was told that there was no medical treatment to lower the amount of Vitamin D in his system,” the suit says.
“It took three months to get his blood seemingly back to where he was able to function. Even now, Null’s condition is questionable, as he continues to occasionally urinate blood,” the suit says.
Null — who markets fitness DVDs, as well as hair-care, anti-aging, anti-stress, air-purification, weight-loss and pet-care goods on his Web site — soon discovered he wasn’t the only one who couldn’t handle his product.
While he was recuperating, “six consumers were hospitalized with severe kidney damage, and Null, in the midst of all this, while he was suffering in bed, had dozens of his customers calling him, along with condemning and threatening him,” the suit says.
The suit — seeking $10 million — says New Jersey company Triarco was responsible for mixing the Vitamin D for the product, which has since been recalled. It charges Triarco failed to do proper tests before sending the ingredient on.
Triarco didn’t return a call for comment.
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