Vitamin D casts cancer prevention in new light

Globe and Mail ^ | April 28, 2007 | MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT

[Gvl_M3]

Ok,
Don’t know where you are getting your vitamins, but I’ve been very pleased with Puritans Pride.

If you know you will need a long supply, you can usually get some very good deals.

Right now, they have a buy 2, get 3 free deal.

http://www.puritan.com/

[Old Professer]

Asbestos is responsible for very few cancers while being blamed for many.

[Marie]

If your body doesn’t have the rest of the nutrients to process the calcium, it will sit in your blood instead of being deposited in your bones.

*OR* you can have my daughter's situation where you have enough calcium, but you are lacking the nutrients that tell your body what to do with all the calcium and you end up with terrible bone spurs...

[montag813]

It is not a fad. I have been attending medical lectures for several years. (My wife has MS). The MS reseearch had pointed out that the risk of acquiring MS is halved if you take Vitamin D supplements.

Is your wife in menopause? Many docs believe MS and Lupus are caused by declining levels of progesterone.

[varina davis]

Uh oh! Now even more yankees will be flocking to Florida to live.

[Purdue Pete]

‘nother ping!

[dalereed]

“To achieve the vitamin D doses used for cancer prevention through foods, people would need to drink about three litres of milk a day, which is unrealistic.”

What’s unrealistic about it, I drink about 4 gallons a week.

[JMJJR]

bump for later

[kellynla]

“three litres of milk a day”

Correct me if I’m wrong but that’s about 3/4 of a gallon...

Good thing for vitamins! LOL

[maryz]

You might as well be taking prednisone, it's chemical structure is very close to that of vitamin D,

Are you sure about this? If it's true, it seems odd that they would use prednisone to treat vitamin D toxicity.

[Running On Empty]

Marking

[dalereed]

I also work outside almost every day.

I don’t think i’m hurting in the vitamin D area.

Maybe the 4+ gallons of milk a day and at least a 12 cup pot of coffee in the morning is why I never drink water.

[slowhandluke]

Quite sure. Vitamin D,25 and prednisone tend to deactivate the nuclear receptors that D,1,25 activate. However, D,25 is also quickly converted to D,1,25 so while it cools things in the short run, it feeds the fire in the long run.

[CDHart]

Don't forget that it's necessary to have fat to process the vitamin D when it's ingested, i.e. milk. Use the whole milk, not the low-fat kind.

Carolyn

[2ndClassCitizen]

No one factor is the cause. It is believed to be partly genetic, partly environmental, partly viral or bacterial.

And... pregnancy in women lead to the disappearance, usually, of symptoms. Progesterone or some hormone in women can greatly affect the symptoms.

Still, the cause or causes of MS remain elusive.

Dawn, check out my earlier post. Also the FOX news site has some more on MS. It is under the health section, then click on neurology on the sidebar.

[neverdem]

Would this mean that folks who work at night and sleep during the day might have an increased risk of cancer? Nurses, etc...

That seems to be the inference that thes folks need vit D supplementation. I'd like to to see this study, and I'd like to see the results replicated.

[neverdem]

Thanks for the links.

[neverdem]

And... pregnancy in women lead to the disappearance, usually, of symptoms. Progesterone or some hormone in women can greatly affect the symptoms.

It's been recognized for quite a while that the symptoms of autoimmune diseases decrease during pregnancy.

Here's one of the stardard ways to draw images of vitamin D and two steroid hormone molecules in Organic Chemistry. The vertices in these drawings represent carbon atoms in single or double covalent bonds. Double bonds share two pairs of electrons and are indicated by a pair of parallel lines. Single covalent bonds of carbon to hydrogen at the vertices is assumed as the convention. C represents carbon, O represents oxygen and H represents hydrogen.

In the second drawing, C₂₃H₂₈O₆ is another way to describe the molecule which has a molecular wieght of 400.47 units, of average atomic wieght units when the average weight and distribution of isotopes are included. The subscripts indicate the total number of each elements number of atoms in the molecule.

vitamin D₃ from http://bioe.eng.utoledo.edu/adms_staffs/akkus/2003_WEB_PROJECTS/hormone/vitamin_d.htm

prednisone from http://img.alibaba.com/photo/50457579/Prednisone_Acetate.jpg

from http://www-klinik.uni-mainz.de/Zentrallabor/Lab-Web/Hypertextbook/cortisol.gif

[metmom]

I’ve heard stuff along these lines for years. That’s why I never discourage my kids from getting all the sun they can. Course, living in NY, that can be challenging.

[metmom]

This has been talked about for years. Where have you been?