I can tell you it saved my 92 yr old Mom from death's doorstep a year ago. I had already seen how it helped me. I would regularly get at least one or two severe bronchial infections in the winter. Since I've been taking it the last two years, I've had none.
I provided the research to the nursing home doc and nearly begged him to get her on it daily. She's been on Vit. D3 daily since then.
Mentally, physically . . she's improved in every way, her spirits are great, and God love her, she's hanging in there .. even though she's in a wheelchair due to disabling arthritis, has severely distorted vision from macular degeneration, and has a pacemaker.
The benefits of it for cardiac issues, MS, cancer and SO many illnesses are becoming more stunning every day.
Last week, docs in the UK have began giving their breast cancer patients the vitamin, because it's shown so much promise.
Now with all this sickness and swine flu around, I take between 6-10 IU a day to keep my immune system strong .. especially with the gloomy winter days upon us for months and little sunlight on my skin to create it naturally.
Needless to say: I'M A TRUE BELIEVER!
Starwise,
I was tested in an executive physical program
and told by the doctor that I am the only person
he has ever tested in his career that has adequate
D3 levels. I supplement 5,000 IU/day.
rock on,
ampu
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.
Sunshine and Your Health
If well adults and adolescents regularly avoid sunlight exposure, research indicates a necessity to supplement with at least 5,000 units (IU) of vitamin D daily. To obtain this amount from milk one would need to consume 50 glasses. With a multivitamin more than 10 tablets would be necessary. Neither is advisable.
The skin produces approximately 10,000 IU vitamin D in response 20–30 minutes summer sun exposure—50 times more than the US government’s recommendation of 200 IU per day!
How To Get Enough Vitamin D
There are 3 ways for adults to insure adequate levels of vitamin D:
* regularly receive midday sun exposure in the late spring, summer, and early fall, exposing as much of the skin as possible.
* regularly use a sun bed (avoiding sunburn) during the colder months.
* take 5,000 IU per day for three months, then obtain a 25-hydroxyvitamin D test. Adjust your dosage so that blood levels are between 50–80 ng/mL (or 125–200 nM/L) year-round.
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Noteworthy News
H1N1 Swine Flu and Vitamin D
Dr. Cannell receives crucial emails from two physicians who have evidence vitamin D is protective against H1N1 Swine Flu.
Read the emails in our September 2009 “Special Report” edition of our Vitamin D Newsletter: Vitamin D and H1N1 Swine Flu.
Learn about the profound effects vitamin D has on the immune system and why it could potentially be a potent ally this coming swine flu season!
Read the May 2009 H1N1 Flu and Vitamin D edition of our Vitamin D Newsletter (subscription form at top of page).
Watch this video of an interview with Vitamin D Council Executive Director Dr. John Cannell,
http://blogs.healthfreedomalliance.org/blog/2009/07/30/dr-john-cannell-on-vitamin-d/
where he explains vitamin D’s effect on innate and adaptive immunity and what that means in relation to viral infections, such as the flu or the common cold
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/
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Vitamin D News
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/news.shtml
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Benefits of vitamin D for cancer prevention
Excerpt:
A new study looking at the relationship between vitamin D serum levels and the risk of colon and breast cancer across the globe has estimated the number of cases of cancer that could be prevented each year if vitamin D3 levels met the target proposed by researchers.
Cedric F. Garland, Dr.P.H., cancer prevention specialist at the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and colleagues estimate that 250,000 cases of colorectal cancer and 350,000 cases of breast cancer could be prevented worldwide by increasing intake of vitamin D3, particularly in countries north of the equator. Vitamin D3 is available through diet, supplements and exposure of the skin to sunlight.
“For the first time, we are saying that 600,000 cases of breast and colorectal cancer could be prevented each year worldwide, including nearly 150,000 in the United States alone,” said study co-author Garland. The paper, which looks at the dose-response relationship between vitamin D and cancer, will be published in the August edition of the journal Nutrition Reviews.
The study combined data from surveys of serum vitamin D levels during winter from 15 countries. It is the first such study to look at satellite measurements of sunshine and cloud cover in countries where actual blood serum levels of vitamin D3 had also been determined.
The data were then applied to 177 countries to estimate the average serum level of a vitamin D metabolite of people living there.
*snip*
The message is, depending on where you live, you may need to consider taking in considerably higher levels of vitamin D3 than those currently recommended,” said Garland. “I’d recommend discussing vitamin D needs with a health care professional, who may order and interpret a simple blood test for a vitamin D metabolite [25(OH)D], and provide a dosage recommendation that’s appropriate for the individual’s needs.”
http://www.news-medical.net/news/2007/08/22/28977.aspx
Epidemic Influenza And Vitamin D
In early April of 2005, after a particularly rainy spring, an influenza epidemic (epi: upon, demic: people) exploded through the maximum-security hospital for the criminally insane where I have worked for the last ten years. It was not the pandemic (pan: all, demic: people) we all fear, just an epidemic. The world is waiting and governments are preparing for the next pandemic. A severe influenza pandemic will kill many more Americans than died in the World Trade Centers, the Iraq war, the Vietnam War, and Hurricane Katrina combined, perhaps a million people in the USA alone. Such a disaster would tear the fabric of American society. Our entire country might resemble the Superdome or Bourbon Street after Hurricane Katrina.
It’s only a question of when a pandemic will come, not if it will come. Influenza A pandemics come every 30 years or so, severe ones every hundred years or so. The last pandemic, the Hong Kong flu, occurred in 1968 - killing 34,000 Americans. In 1918, the Great Flu Epidemic killed more than 500,000 Americans. So many millions died in other countries, they couldn’t bury the bodies. Young healthy adults, in the prime of their lives in the morning, drowning in their own inflammation by noon, grossly discolored by sunset, were dead at midnight. Their body’s own broad-spectrum natural antibiotics, called antimicrobial peptides, seemed nowhere to be found. An overwhelming immune response to the influenza virus - white blood cells releasing large amounts of inflammatory agents called cytokines and chemokines into the lungs of the doomed - resulted in millions of deaths in 1918.
As I am now a psychiatrist, and no longer a general practitioner, I was not directly involved in fighting the influenza epidemic in our hospital. However, our internal medicine specialists worked overtime as they diagnosed and treated a rapidly increasing number of stricken patients. Our Chief Medical Officer quarantined one ward after another as more and more patients were gripped with the chills, fever, cough, and severe body aches that typifies the clinical presentation of influenza A.(continued at link)
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/51913.php
Bump to V D3.
I actually had a blood test a few years back that detected that I was at 11 when normal is like 20+ or some such 20 number.
Both of us take it and I have also read around here at FR that V D3 acts as the piggy back to other nutrients that need to be absorbed into the body.
And as KVs careprovider I was hands but to do it long enough (I am always like a kid in a hurry) instead of as the Govt suggested singing Happy Birthday for duration time I pray One Prayer for each wash as in Praying the Rosary.
Have got it up to two Prayers per wash in some intances when at the basin.
Vitamin D bump!
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I take 4,000 IU’s a day.
missed this bump, to read tomorrow..
Just ran across your post, very informative. Now I’ll have to study up and see what else I’m missing.