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Understanding Vitamin D Cholecalciferol

The high rate of natural production of vitamin D3 cholecalciferol (pronounced koh·luh·kal·sif·uh·rawl) in the skin is the single most important fact every person should know about vitamin D—a fact that has profound implications for the natural human condition.

Technically not a "vitamin," vitamin D is in a class by itself. Its metabolic product, calcitriol, is actually a secosteroid hormone that targets over 2000 genes (about 10% of the human genome) in the human body. Current research has implicated vitamin D deficiency as a major factor in the pathology of at least 17 varieties of cancer as well as heart disease, stroke, hypertension, autoimmune diseases, diabetes, depression, chronic pain, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, muscle weakness, muscle wasting, birth defects, periodontal disease, and more.

Vitamin D's influence on key biological functions vital to one's health and well-being mandates that vitamin D no longer be ignored by the health care industry nor by individuals striving to achieve and maintain a greater state of health.

Calcium Vitamin D – A Perfect Combination For Longevity!

Calcium in combination with the sunshine vitamin can perform miracles for your health in a way that you would have never thought ! Vitamin D is synthesized in our body when sunlight reaches our skin. It is the hormone Vitamin D3 which is the actual regulator of calcium and phosphorus levels in the human body.

Calcium

Calcium ions in our body are tremendously important. We require a minimum dosage of 300 mg of calcium per day – for the active individuals and for pregnant mothers, the dosage can go over 500 mg per day! Calcium helps strengthen the immune system other than making our bones strong and keeping them healthy. Calcium ions are crucial in supporting the electrolytic balance in our body thereby supporting the health of our nervous system !

Calcium can be introduced in the diet through green vegetables and lots of dairy products like milk, cottage cheese, yogart etc. However, the level of calcium in those foods is hardly enough to have an impact . Recent research has shown that authentic marine-grade coral calcium is the best source you can get . Good calcium levels in the body help maintain the pH balance and also increase the blood clotting capacity . That is they help fix the damaged platelets and fibrins in the blood coagulum.

Vitamin D and Calcium Combo!

This mixture of calcium vitamin D is perhaps the most potent combination of all possible vitamin combinations. The benefits of such a potent combination are vast . While vitamin D regulates the amount of intake and outgoing levels of calcium and phosphorus in the body, calcium can do the repair work in the meantime . Also, reasonable calcium and Vitamin D levels in the body mean:

Lesser joint pains or injuries
Good quality bones and healthy teeth
Healthy bone marrow
Prevention of osteoporosis in the elderly
supporting the electrical equilibrium in the body,

New evidence: Vitamin D supplements reduce breast cancer risk

A new study led by Canadian researchers and published in the April 14, 2010 issue of American Journal of Clicnical Nutrition suggests that taking vitamin D supplementsmay help reduce breast cancer risk drastically.
Anderson L.N. and colleagues from Population Studies Surveillance Cancer Care Ontario in Toronto Canada conducted the case-control study and found women taking 400 IU/day of vitamin D were at 24 percent lower risk of breast cancer compared to those who did not take supplements. Anderson compared 3101 breast cancer patients aged 25 to 74 with 3471 controls for their intakes of vitamin D trough food and supplements to see if vitamin D has anything to do with the risk of breast cancer.
Early evidence suggests that vitamin D deficiency boosts the risk of the disease.Although there was an association between taking vitamin D supplements and irks of breast cancer, vitamin D in food or combined intake of vitamin D from food and supplements were not associated with the risk. A few foods that naturally contain vitamin D include fatty fish, egg york and mushroom. A number of processed foods and beverages that are fortified with the vitamin include milk, orange juices and other solid foods.

If you care about your health and don't get sunshine, take 5000 IU of vitamin D3 per day.


This is the recommendation of the Vitamin D Council.

The Vitamin D Council suggests a bloodstream leval of 50 to 70 ng/ml of vitamin D3. Keeping your level in this range, and even erring toward the higher number in this range, is going to give you the most protective benefit. The way you maintain your levels within this range is by getting tested regularly – say two to four times a year in the beginning, and adjusting your vitamin D intake accordingly.
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Reduce breast cancer risk with Vitamin D

Summary of Findings in Breast Cancer.

Breast cancer patients with low levels of vitamin D and followed for up to eleven years had a 70% greater chance of dying and twice the rate of developing metastasis than did patients with high levels of vitamin D

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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Vitamin D Dramatically Cuts Cancer Risk: Study

CTV.ca News Staff
Jun. 7 2007

A landmark new study is raising the tantalizing spectre that a simple and cheap vitamin supplement may offer a highly effective way of preventing cancer.

The research, published in the online edition of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, finds that a combination of vitamin D3 and calcium has a substantially marked effect on reducing cancer incidence.

The four-year study out of Creighton University in Nebraska found that women who regularly took vitamin D3 had a 60 percent reduction in cancer infections compared to a group taking placebos.

The study followed 1,179 healthy, women 55 years and older from rural eastern Nebraska between 2000 and 2005. Participants were randomly assigned to receive 1400-1500 mg of calcium alone, or supplemental calcium plus 1,100 IU vitamin D3, or placebo.

Among the 288 women taking placebo, 20 developed breast, colon, lung or another form of cancer. Among the 445 women taking just calcium, 17 developed cancer. But among the largest group -- the 446 women taking vitamin D daily -- just 13 developed cancer.

"What we found is that a vitamin D supplement decreased the cancer incidence in postmenopausal women by about 60 percent," lead investigator Joan Lappe, an associate professor of both medicine and nursing at Creighton University, told CTV News.

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Monday, November 16, 2009

Eradicate Breast Cancer With Vitamin D?

Breast cancer risk 'virtually eradicated' by elevated vitamin D levels, researchers suggest.

Reprinted with permission from CNW Group

TORONTO, Nov. 4 /CNW/ - Breast cancer is a disease so directly related to vitamin D deficiency that a woman's risk of contracting the disease can be 'virtually eradicated' by elevating her vitamin D status to what vitamin D scientists consider to be natural blood levels.

That's the message vitamin D pioneer Dr. Cedric Garland delivered in Toronto Tuesday as part of the University of Toronto School of Medicine's "Diagnosis and Treatment of Vitamin D Deficiency" conference - the largest gathering of vitamin D researchers in North America this year. More than 170 researchers, public health officials and health practitioners gathered at the UT Faculty club for the landmark event.

Garland's presentation headlined a conference that reviewed many aspects of the emerging vitamin D research field - a booming discipline that has seen more than 3,000 academic papers this calendar year alone, conference organizers said. That makes vitamin D by far the most prolific topic in medicine this year, with work connecting it with risk reduction in two dozen forms of cancer, heart disease, multiple scleroses and many other disorders.

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