Posted on 03/23/2015 9:37:47 PM PDT by jonatron
Vitamin D can slow down or even reverse the initial prostate cancer or tumours without the requirement for surgery or radiation, says new research.
While the researchers are not sure at this stage about the connection, they said vitamin D can at least slow down the multiplying nature of the tumour, which is crucial in initial stage prostate cancer.
In many cases when the biopsy is taken, it requires 60 days for the inflammation from the biopsy to subside for an operation and during this supplements of vitamin D would be helpful, while under active surveillance, said researchers.
“We do not know yet whether vitamin D treats or prevents prostate cancer,” said Bruce Hollis from the Medical University of South Carolina. “At the minimum, what it may do is keep lower-grade prostate cancers from going ballistic.”
In their clinical trial, the team studied 37 men undergoing elective prostatectomy with one group receiving vitamin D and the other in the placebo group.
Those who were on Vitamin D supplements showed improvements in their prostate tumours and those in the placebo group remained unchanged. Even the expression levels of many cell lipids and proteins in the first group were improved considerably.
“Cancer is associated with inflammation, especially in the prostate gland… and Vitamin D is really fighting this inflammation within the gland,” Hollis noted.
The group has presented its findings at the 249th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in Denver, US.
Scientists Confirm IOM Recommendation for Vitamin D Intake Was Miscalculated and Is Far Too Low
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3270578/posts
and should take Vit D3.
I take the 5,000IU caps- and take 3-4 a day.
I haven’t been sick in decades. ( I don’t do flu or pneumonia shots)
I’m going salmon fishing in Alaska for my birthday this summer - my 80th.
I take the 5,000IU caps- and take 3-4 a day.
I take one 5,000 iu D3 and will increase that to at least two a day.
I haven’t been sick in at least 5 years but it could be longer than that.
I do D-3 in the winter months.
I’m going salmon fishing in Alaska for my birthday this summer - my 80th.
Good for you. Have fun and Happy Birthday.
and should take Vit D3.
I take the 5,000IU caps- and take 3-4 a day.
I haven’t been sick in decades. ( I don’t do flu or pneumonia shots)
I’m going salmon fishing in Alaska for my birthday this summer - my 80th.
Sounds good but the article fails to mention if we are to take it orally.
I don’t do wheat or dairy and haven’t been sick in 7 years
Actually, Vit D isn’t a vitamin.
Here’s a column I wrote on it a couple years ago - (also, check for YOUR “sun window” with the link at bottom)
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“Vitamin D isn’t a vitamin.
It’s a hormone. Without it, we can fall victim to just about every disease and illness we can think of.
We can store it up in summer, but in Maine, the gathering time is short. By October, the sun is too low in the sky for us to get the healthy rays, the UVBs. As winter drags on, our levels of Vitamin D get lower until, by February, we fall victim to “spring fever.”
Vitamin D is one of the most potent hormones in your body, and is essential for health. Vitamin D is produced as a pro-hormone in your skin after sunlight exposure [that’s how Vitamin D gets into milk — through cows in the pasture — if they are allowed pastures.
Melanoma risk increases as sunlight exposure decreases, according to recent studies. In 1900, about 75 percent of the U.S. population worked outdoors. Today, only 10 percent of the population does. Studies show that even as sunlight exposure has dramatically decreased, melanoma has exponentially increased—by 2,500 percent! Also, multiple sclerosis is more prevalent in northern climates – where the sun’s Vitamin D is absent for months each year.
Astonishingly, melanoma rates increased only in indoor workers – not outdoor workers.
Diseases related to Vitamin D deficiency makes a very long and inclusive list. You name it, it’s probably on the list.
We run on sunlight - the life-giver.
Problem is, from now to spring, Maine does not get Vitamin D UVB rays - the good rays, due to the sun’s low trajectory. Fortunately, Vitamin D can be stored up during the summer and go for some time, but, as it gradually gets used up we tend to become antsy for spring.
This causes the famous “spring fever’ that gets us by February. It’s the cause of SAD — Seasonal Affective Disorder — which, in some people, creates deep depression, requiring treatment.
The treatment often used is UVB sunlamps and/or Vitamin D3 supplements.
By late April in Maine, once the sun reaches the 53 percent line in the sky, we start getting Vitamin D again from roughly 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. — (9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. in mid-summer) , the very hours we’ve been warned, for the past couple decades, to “stay out of the sun” — and then it’s gone by mid-September.
So gather ye rays for winter, in summer. (I take 10,000 international units of Vitamin D3 — it’s important to take D3, not just D — starting in October.)
The sun has, for tens of thousands of years, been known to be absolutely necessary for good health, (Take a plant out of the sun, try to grow a garden without sufficient sunlight.) It’s only been the last three or four decades that we’ve been told that the sun is bad for us. Good for selling sunscreens ... which only adds to the problem. Do the research regarding the negative reactions in regard to sunscreens and sunlight. (I pay attention only to reliable sources/studies, but I also have had personal experience with the adverse reactions.)
Spring isn’t that far off. I can see it from here – almost. But for now, I’ll pop my D3s.”
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To find your ‘sun window’ - use this NAVY chart -
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/AltAz.php
That’s great.
Does that include no yogurt?
I just gave up wheat but need to work on the dairy.
I’m eating some Hershey’s nuggets right now. LOL
yes, orally. if you can get some vitamin k2 along with it it’ll be taken in better by the body.
also: “Scientists Confirm Institute of Medicine Recommendation for Vitamin D Intake Was Miscalculated and Is Far Too Low”
(I’ve been writing about this for decades)
and
D3 for me
bflr
No yogurt. I do eat chocolate
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The Prostate Awareness Foundation (PAF) offers information, support, and education about the treatment options available to those with prostate concerns. The object is to lessen the trauma, impact, problems, and depression associated with the disease and to encourage proactive responsibility for one’s own healing. We also offer information to those who wish to take a preventative approach to the disease. Based in Santa Rosa, CA, we have been providing this service, nationwide since 1995.
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Most prostate cancer patients do not die from prostate cancer and can live 15-20 years before the cancer becomes active. Statistics show that men who have had surgery, hormone blockade or radiation therapy, live a year or two longer than men who do nothing, at most.
The PAF regimen is NOT a do nothing approach but is designed to extend the prostate cancer latency period indefinitely. Often, the immune system strengthening of this regimen results in remission and biopsies where cancer is no longer detected. Much more info at www.prostateawarenessfoundation.org.
>> Sounds good but the article fails to mention if we are to take it orally.
Ideally, you take it through an organ...
O goody, I guess I should expect this is the new Vitamin E. Hypercalcemia is becoming more problematic, I suspect this is why. That and measuring patient vitamin D during the winter months for year long dosage. Makes no sense to me, and hypercalcemia is serious. I agree with a winter dose maybe, but some common sense should be applied. Another day another study. After the lies about global warming, published biases, I don’t think researchers have my best interest at heart.
What do you think about sunscreens?
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