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Low vitamin D predicts aggressive prostate cancer
Northwestern University/Science Daily ^ | March 1, 2016 | Marla Paul

Posted on 01/14/2020 6:53:45 PM PST by ConservativeMind

A new study provides a major link between low levels of vitamin D and aggressive prostate cancer. Northwestern Medicine research showed deficient vitamin D blood levels in men can predict aggressive prostate cancer identified at the time of surgery.

Previous studies showing an association between vitamin D levels and aggressive prostate cancer were based on blood drawn well before treatment. The new Northwestern study provides a more direct correlation because it measured D levels within a couple of months before the tumor was visually identified as aggressive during surgery to remove the prostate (radical prostatectomy).

The relationship between vitamin D and prostate cancer may explain some disparities seen in prostate cancer, especially among African American men. Prior research by Murphy and colleagues showed African American men who live in low sunlight locations are up to 1½ times more likely to have vitamin D deficiency than Caucasian men.

But because vitamin D is a biomarker for bone health and aggressiveness of other diseases, all men should check their levels, Murphy said.

"All men should be replenishing their vitamin D to normal levels," Murphy said. "It's smart preventive health care."

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Especially in winter, our Vitamin D level wane. This is simply because we don’t get as much sun.

If you don’t get sun without sunscreen in the summer, you also get little Vitamin D.

Check your levels and supplement, if needed.

1 posted on 01/14/2020 6:53:45 PM PST by ConservativeMind
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To: ConservativeMind
Especially in winter, our Vitamin D level wane

Except in he Southern hemisphere.

2 posted on 01/14/2020 6:58:37 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

“Except in he Southern hemisphere.”

Um.... No.


3 posted on 01/14/2020 7:04:09 PM PST by Born to Conserve
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To: nickcarraway
They have Winter in the Southern hemisphere, during our Summer period.
4 posted on 01/14/2020 7:06:57 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: Deaf Smith

Exactly.


5 posted on 01/14/2020 7:08:39 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: ConservativeMind

That’s the problem in Seattle; moms slather the kids up with 1000 sun screen and then winter comes and it’s cloudy for several months. Then they complain about how sick their kids always are.


6 posted on 01/14/2020 7:08:40 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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What about Foods that provide vitamin D include:

Fatty fish, like tuna, mackerel, and salmon.
Foods fortified with vitamin D, like some dairy products, orange juice, soy milk, and cereals.
Beef liver.
Cheese.
Egg yolks.

I eat alot of them and take a daily multi vitamin and still had high prostate levels and had surgery.

7 posted on 01/14/2020 7:11:22 PM PST by McGruff
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To: ConservativeMind

This is true. My D3 level was 27 when I was diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer over five years ago. I now take enough D3 to keep it up around 85-90. It helps retard the progress of prostate cancer. So does Metformin.


8 posted on 01/14/2020 7:12:52 PM PST by WASCWatch
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To: ConservativeMind

Low Vitamin D is also related to depression. We have a ton of sunshine here in Colorado but I still give my husband extra D every morning. I didn’t know there was a connection to prostate cancer so - so much the better.


9 posted on 01/14/2020 7:45:14 PM PST by luv2ski
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To: ConservativeMind

Saw good study linking high D levels with spontaneous remission of cancers.

Note sun drying shitaki mushrooms gills up create massive levels of natural vitamin d.

Also note taking D supplements uses up magnesium. If you are magnesium deficient can cause cramping.

Maximum safe dose tested stands at 170,000 units, but I would not take over 20k unless I had cancer.


10 posted on 01/14/2020 7:57:58 PM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: ConservativeMind

I started annual physicals about 15+ years ago. Always had low Potassium levels, always border line low. Had my first colonoscopy at 55yo. Polyps were found and removed. At 58yo, colonoscopy and additional polyps. I’d had 8 consecutive years of colonoscopy exams and polyps, 3+ polyps/annual colonoscopy.

I’m blond haired and blue eyed, I’ve always loved being in the sun (vitamin D), and I only get sunburned after several hours of high intensity sun exposure.

This article puts many facts about me in perceptive. I’ve always been of the opinion that your body will tell you by various means, what the body needs and what the body doesn’t want. Case in point, is my wife has never liked seafood, but she is border line allergic to seafood. I say borderline bez she will and can eat scrimp coattail or lobster tail, but only occasionally has a reaction. And benadrily will clear up the reaction within 20 minutes.


11 posted on 01/14/2020 8:15:29 PM PST by fastrock
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To: ConservativeMind

So Thank You, Federal Government, for telling us for decades that one i.u. over 400 per day was going to kill us.


12 posted on 01/15/2020 7:12:50 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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I believe low D is also implicated in female breast cancer. White privilege...


13 posted on 01/15/2020 8:20:45 AM PST by Albion Wilde (It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. --Douglas MacArthur)
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To: GunsareOK

Ping!


14 posted on 01/15/2020 8:33:03 AM PST by Albion Wilde (It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. --Douglas MacArthur)
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