Posted on 01/11/2023 6:28:14 AM PST by ConservativeMind
Fewer cases of melanoma were observed among regular users of vitamin D supplements than among non-users, a new study finds. People taking vitamin D supplements regularly also had a considerably lower risk of skin cancer, according to dermatologists.
Vitamin D plays a key role in the normal function of the human body, and it may also play a role in many diseases. The link between vitamin D and skin cancers has been studied abundantly in the past, but these studies have mainly focused on serum levels of calcidiol.
Findings from these studies have been inconclusive and even contradictory at times, as serum calcidiol levels have been associated with both a slightly higher and with a slightly lower risk of different skin cancers. This may, in part, be explained by the fact that serum calcidiol analyses do not provide information on the metabolism of vitamin D in the human skin, which can express enzymes that generate biologically active vitamin D metabolites or inactivate them.
A key finding of the study is that there were considerably fewer cases of melanoma among regular users of vitamin D than among non-users, and that the skin cancer risk classification of regular users was considerably better than non-users'. Logistic regression analysis showed that the risk for melanoma among regular users was considerably reduced, more than halved, compared to non-users.
The findings suggest that even occasional users of vitamin D may have a lower risk for melanoma than non-users. However, there was no statistically significant association between the use of vitamin D and the severity of photoaging, facial photoaging, actinic keratoses, nevus count, basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma. Serum calcidiol levels were not significantly associated with these skin changes, either. Since the research design was cross-sectional, the researchers were unable to demonstrate a causal relationship.
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Many long term Vitamin D users take the supplement because they know the risks of sun exposure and take precautions to avoid the primary cause of melanoma.
Probably can't hurt. But I'm going to channel my inner Smeagol and live under a mountain hiding from sunlight with my only vitamin D source being fish oil.
Inconsistencies could have been due to simple Vitamin D reporting without looking at how D3 needs K2 (Potassium) and possibly Magnesium supplementation to increase the D uptake and be safe from Calcium deposits in heart/blood vessels.
Holistic practitioners have known this for some time.
I have a neighbor who is suffering from ALS and is very into treating it holistically. He’s the one who told me about the vitamin D3 and K2 connection - which I switched to immediately - I noticed many of the bottles of D3 on the shelves now contain K2 as well, so it seems to be going mainstream.
Dr. Blaylock has said for years in his newsletter that the three supplements Americans lack - and need most are iodine, vitamin D3 + K2 (he also recommends this) and magnesium.
Good to know about the melanoma connection - I know low levels of D3 have been associated with different cancers, colon cancer in particular.
On the show “Autopsy” when Dr. Hunter was reviewing the autopsy report from Chadwick Boseman, who died of colon cancer at aged 43, he said he’d like to know what the vitamin D3 levels were in Boseman - b/c low levels are connected with colon cancers.
The sublimate is equal to how many hours of sunshine??...or drinking fortified WHOLE milk. You need “fat”.
My doctor only wants me to get Vitamin D from the sun, or if necessary, a sun lamp not supplements. He wants me to store up enough Vitamin during the summer to last through winter.
“D3 needs K2 (Potassium)”
K2 is one of the K vitamins.
I have read that among people with auto immune diseases—their ability to use vitamin d is impaired. if they get covid their ability to use vitamin d is knocked out because covid knocks out that ability—so that it can move in unhindered.
That in either case the solution is to take NAC/glycine to make gluathione which —among its other chores—enables the uptake of vitamin d.
Have you read anything similar?
Interesting! Did your doctor say why he does not want you to take Vitamin D supplements?
People taking vitamin D supplements regularly also had a considerably lower risk of skin cancer, according to dermatologists.
As often with correlation, causation can go either direction - or even from another direction entirely to both.
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