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Vitamin D
What is it?
Vitamin D is a fat soluble prohormone.
What does it do?
It is well known that vitamin D is essential in maintaining healthy bones. It also helps regulate calcium absorption and bone metabolism. Vitamin D encourages cells to fully mature and to replicate more slowly. Evidence shows it also plays a role in insulin production, the immune system, inflammation, high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, and many auto immune disorders.
How do I get some?
90 - 100% of our daily requirement comes from exposure to the sun. The rest from oily fish and vitamin supplements.
Symptoms of Deficiency
The classic deficiency results in rickets in infants and osteomalacia in adults. These are painful bone diseases that can lead to growth deficiencies and fractures.
Studies
The American Journal Of Clinical Nutrition recently concluded a study that found that taking 1,ooo IU per day of vitamin D reduced cancer incidence 50 - 60%.
Vitamin D encourages cells to fully mature and to replicate more slowly. These are known influences that make it less likely that a cell will become cancerous. It is becoming more and more evident that food sources alone are not enough to give us an adequate amount of vitamin D. Especially for those of us living in the northern states.
The current recommendation is that an adult should take 800-1,000 IU per day as a means to lower overall cancer risk. This level has also been found to help prevent osteoporosis, diabetes and may decrease the risk of multiple sclerosis.
Warnings
Patients who are pregnant or breastfeeding, organ transplant recipients, have kidney disease, with sarcodiosis or hyperparathyroidism should refrain from taking high doses of vitamin D.
Vitamin D is a fat soluble prohormone.
What does it do?
It is well known that vitamin D is essential in maintaining healthy bones. It also helps regulate calcium absorption and bone metabolism. Vitamin D encourages cells to fully mature and to replicate more slowly. Evidence shows it also plays a role in insulin production, the immune system, inflammation, high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, and many auto immune disorders.
How do I get some?
90 - 100% of our daily requirement comes from exposure to the sun. The rest from oily fish and vitamin supplements.
Symptoms of Deficiency
The classic deficiency results in rickets in infants and osteomalacia in adults. These are painful bone diseases that can lead to growth deficiencies and fractures.
Studies
The American Journal Of Clinical Nutrition recently concluded a study that found that taking 1,ooo IU per day of vitamin D reduced cancer incidence 50 - 60%.
Vitamin D encourages cells to fully mature and to replicate more slowly. These are known influences that make it less likely that a cell will become cancerous. It is becoming more and more evident that food sources alone are not enough to give us an adequate amount of vitamin D. Especially for those of us living in the northern states.
The current recommendation is that an adult should take 800-1,000 IU per day as a means to lower overall cancer risk. This level has also been found to help prevent osteoporosis, diabetes and may decrease the risk of multiple sclerosis.
Warnings
Patients who are pregnant or breastfeeding, organ transplant recipients, have kidney disease, with sarcodiosis or hyperparathyroidism should refrain from taking high doses of vitamin D.
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