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Researchers Find No Significant Health Benefits From Vitamin D Supplements
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Posted on 01/26/2014 8:37:57 PM PST by chessplayer
Healthy people taking vitamin D supplements are unlikely to see any significant impact when it comes to preventing broken bones or cardiovascular conditions, claims new research appearing in the latest edition of The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology.
According to the AFP news agency, the study authors reviewed more than 40 previous trials in order to determine whether or not use of these vitamin supplements achieved a benchmark of reducing the risk of heart attacks, strokes, cancer or bone fractures by at least 15 percent.
Previous research had seen a strong link between vitamin D deficiency and poor health in these areas, the news agency said. However, the new study strengthens arguments that vitamin D deficiency is usually the result of ill health not the cause of it, and the authors report that there is little justification for doctors to prescribe vitamin D supplements as a preventive measure for these disorders.
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KEYWORDS: curcumin; omega3; tumeric; vitamind; vitd; vitk; vitk2
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To: JSteff
Curcumin is one of the active ingredients in turmeric.
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01/28/2014 4:53:57 AM PST
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Salamander
(Sleeping don't come very easy in a strait white vest.)
To: Salamander
Same here... and I did not share several good stories... maybe some time.
take care.
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01/28/2014 8:33:05 AM PST
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JSteff
(It was ALL about SCOTUS.. We are DOOMED for several generations. . Who cares? Dem's did and voted!)
To: palmer
Thanks for the info. I was on beta seron sub q but I can not inject myself (stupid I know) she was doing that but she is an alcoholic and I finally stopped the beta shots from her. Are you an MD or RN?
She can barely manage her own meds I do not think having her do mine would be very wise. She was an ACLS certified RN till she got thyroid cancer and had a radical neck. 64 lymph nodes removed para thyroid, and thyroid removed. Repair to her jugular and carotid. rebuilt voice box. Pretty massive but it has been 6 years and she is still alive. Rehnquist was operated on for the nearly same thing about 2 months before her by the same surgeon Eugene Myers who most neck surgeons hold him in great esteem.
She still has stage 4 but she is one of the few who is non-avid (?) and the cancer will not show with any great definition so they don't know where it is, but all the other tests show she is stage 4.
I nearly (did) cried when the health care bill passed. Her and I are candidates for death panels if there ever was any we are it.
We both treat mainly at Hershey Med... but I have not had the money to followup for 4 years now. And I do not self medicate all prescriptions where written by a family MD. I am very involved with him about what I am taking though.
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01/28/2014 9:04:17 AM PST
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JSteff
(It was ALL about SCOTUS.. We are DOOMED for several generations. . Who cares? Dem's did and voted!)
To: JSteff
I didn't think you self-medicated from sratch. There is a complex relationship with the doctor and patient which is why my mom's GP has experimented with various specialist and generalist doctors to treat her Parkinsons. Obviously Parkinsons has no cure and can only be treated at the symptom level with the meds. But how you take them and how you interact with the doctor makes a measurable difference, sometimes large. So she saw a couple of generalists and one Parkinsons specialist and he evaluated the results to determine further treatment.
Being involved with the MD in treating sleep disorders is probably not a good thing. There are just too many variables that you can overlook when evaluating a medication or you might overweight some variables. You need an objective outside observer, the best kind of observer would not know what the medication is either (double blind). In a way that is the role of my mom's GP. I have no medical training whatsoever so take whatever I say with a grain of salt.
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01/28/2014 10:16:58 AM PST
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palmer
(Obama = Carter + affirmative action)
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