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Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, October 3, 2007
Vitamin D Boosts Health, Cuts Cancer Risk in Half
(OMNS October 3, 2007) New research shows that getting plenty of vitamin D prolongs life and improves health. Vitamin D deficiency plays a role in causing seventeen varieties of cancer, as well as heart disease, stroke, hypertension, autoimmune diseases, diabetes, depression, chronic pain, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, muscle weakness, muscle wasting, birth defects, and periodontal disease. (1) This does not mean that vitamin D deficiency is the only cause of these diseases. What it does mean is that vitamin D, and the many ways in which it affects a person's health, must no longer be overlooked.
Here is a very important example: Ample intake of vitamin D (about 2,000 IU/day) can cut breast cancer incidence by half. (2) If vitamin D levels were increased worldwide, 600,000 cases of breast and other cancers could be prevented each year. Nearly 150,000 cases of cancer could be prevented in the United States alone.
A four-year study of 1,179 healthy, postmenopausal women showed that taking calcium, along with nearly three times the U.S. government's recommendation of vitamin D3, showed a dramatic 60 percent or greater reduction in all forms of cancer. (3) Additionally, there is growing evidence that maintaining vitamin D levels in the body during the winter prevent the flu and other viral infections by strengthening the immune system (4).
How much vitamin D does the average person need? In the summer, those with at least 15 minutes of sun exposure on their skin most days should take 1,000 IU of vitamin D3 each day. In the winter, those with dark skin, or those who have little sun exposure on their skin, should take up to 4,000 IU each day. Suit your vitamin D3 supplementation to your lifestyle: those who have darker skin, are older, avoid sun exposure or live in the northern US should take the higher amounts.
Vitamin D is remarkably safe; there have been no deaths caused by the vitamin. (5) The best way to be sure you are getting the right amount is to have your doctor give you a blood test for 25-hydroxyvitamin D. If your vitamin D intake from all sources is maintaining your blood level at or near 50 ng/ml, you have a good vitamin D status. If it is more than 10% below this level, supplemental sources of vitamin D3 should be increased.
People consuming only government-recommended levels of 200-400 IU/day often have blood levels considerably below 50 ng/ml. This means the government’s recommendations are too low, and should be raised immediately.
2. Garland CF, Gorham ED, Mohr SB, Grant WB, Giovannucci EL, Lipkin M, Newmark H, Holick MF, Garland FC. Vitamin D and prevention of breast cancer: pooled analysis. J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol, 2007. Mar;103(3-5):708-11.
3. Lappe JM, Travers-Gustafson D, Davies KM, Recker RR, Heaney RP. Vitamin D and calcium supplementation reduces cancer risk: results of a randomized trial. Amer J Clin Nutrition, 2007. Vol. 85, No. 6, 1586-1591, June. http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/85/6/1586
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Harold D. Foster, Ph.D.
Bradford Weeks, M.D.
Carolyn Dean, M.D., N.D.
Erik Paterson, M.D.
Thomas Levy, M.D., J.D.
Steve Hickey, Ph.D.
I don't like the wording of the title. If people aren't deficient in Vitamin D, how are they going to cut cancer risk in half? If deficiency plays a role in causing auto-immune diseases, it's interesting that Lupus has sun-sensitivity as a symptom.
Before jumping on the pill popping bandwagon, consider the lies we're told in order to sell sunscreen, and the information linked:
Excess Vitamin D with Calcium supplementation can cause us to take on too much calcium leading to a very painful and crippling condition. Are we going to say that decreasing Vitamin D could cut the occurrence of this condition in half? I think the title tells us, this article is about selling solutions in the form of a pill. Getting some more sunlight for many of us would be a much better solution.
Vitamin D is fat-soluble vitamins that helps the body absorb calcium and helps the body keep the right amount of calcium and phosphorus in the blood. Fat-soluble vitamins are stored in the body's fatty tissue. Vitamin D is found in dairy products like cheese, butter, cream, fortified milk. Other sources of Vitamin D are fish, oysters, fortified cereals, margarine etc. Most common source of Vitamin D is sunlight exposure of skin .
Wonderful to know about the vitamin D , I have been searching some of the key features from vitamin D.Very good information and video tube to explain about the vitamin D as fat tissues and soluble too.Thanks for it.
HI Thanks for sharing Good info . I've got some vitamin D deficiency and i am trying to manage it with some Vitamin D pills because i've got some health issues and i can't take any dairy food And i know that is the only source with which we can get vitamin D in natural way .
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Wed Aug 17, 2011 8:21 pm
madthumbs
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Michealleo wrote:
HI Thanks for sharing Good info . I've got some vitamin D deficiency and i am trying to manage it with some Vitamin D pills because i've got some health issues and i can't take any dairy food And i know that is the only source with which we can get vitamin D in natural way .
According to the Institute of Medicine: The best sources of Vitamin D are foods and sunlight.
Also try fatty fish like tuna and salmon or livers.
Vitamin D helps the body absorb calcium and it can help prevent cancer.. So peoples those dont eat sufficient dairy products they need to take it as pills forms ..
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Thu Oct 27, 2011 4:07 am
madthumbs
Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 8624 Location: Fingerlakes - NY usa
Michealwolf wrote:
Vitamin D helps the body absorb calcium and it can help prevent cancer.. So peoples those dont eat sufficient dairy products they need to take it as pills forms ..
No they don't. There's plenty of natural sources of it.
I completely agree with you that vitamin D fight with cancer and also control
our blood pressure, sunlight is the best way for getting vitamin D but you could get
vitamin D in milk, fishes and fresh fruits and vegetables.
