James Dowd, M.D.

Physician and coauthor of The Vitamin D Cure.

James Dowd, M.D. is the physician coauthor of The Vitamin D Cure. In the book he describes how work with vitamin D deficiency shifted his clinical approach toward vitamin D optimization, nutrition, acid-base balance, supplementation, sun exposure, and exercise. The revised edition notes that he began integrating nutrition and lifestyle recommendations into management of arthritis, bone, and autoimmune conditions and was certified by the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine in 2010.