Life Saving and Health Promoting Benefits of Vitamin D:
Vitamin D can reduce your risk of the flu and complications of flu. Vitamin D contributes to lowering the incidence of infections and inflammation during the fall-winter flu season. The Canadian government has recommended increased Vitamin D intake as part of their flu prevention strategy, including prevention of H1N1 Swine Flu.
Vitamin D can reduce your risk of depression. Low levels of Vitamin D are associated with depression. Sun exposure is known to be a factor in relieving depression, especially winter depression also known as seasonal affective disorder.
Vitamin D can reduce chronic muscle aching and pain. Vitamin D helps to normalize blood calcium which is required for tight shortened muscles to soften, lengthen and relax out of spasm. When calcium is available to the muscles, menstrual cramps lessen.
Vitamin D can reduce your risk of cancer. Low levels of Vitamin D are associated with increased incidence of many cancers. Vitamin D normalizes cell to cell communication, impacts uncontrolled cell growth and allows cells to differentiate into normal cells with a normal life cycle.
Vitamin D can reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease, stroke, heart attack and >atherosclerosis. Vitamin D has been shown to protect the lining of your blood vessels.
Vitamin D can reduce your risk of developing Type 1 Diabetes by 80 percent. Low levels of Vitamin D are found in diabetics.
Vitamin D can reduce your risk of getting autoimmune diseases like Multiple Sclerosis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Hashimoto's Thyroiditis, Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Lupus. Low levels of Vitamin D are associated with increased auto- immune attack, breakdown of your own tissues and loss of normal functions. Vitamin D supplementation has been shown to reduce the risk of multiple sclerosis by 40 percent.
Vitamin D can reduce your risk of bone fractures, bone loss and osteoporosis. Low levels of Vitamin D prevent your body from normal calcium metabolism and normal bone formation. Both men and women are at increased risk for bone loss and fractures as they age.
Did you think your body could make Vitamin D??
While the body can make Vitamin D when the skin is exposed to sunlight, modern life affords inadequate sun exposure to meet our Vitamin D needs.
Dark skinned people make less Vitamin D than those with light skin.
Aging skin makes 75 percent less Vitamin D than young skin.
Use of sunscreens blocks Vitamin D production in the skin.
Most people living modern life spend a larger proportion of their time indoors and with most of their skin surface covered by clothing or sunscreen when outdoors.
Ask your doctor to check your blood levels of 25-OH Vitamin D (Vitamin D3)
Blood levels of Vitamin D3 associated with OPTIMAL HEALTH are in the range of 70-120nmol/L, far above the "normal" ranges of the past decades before the recent surge of Vitamin D research changed our understanding of this essential vitamin.
Vitamin D rich foods include cold water fish such as wild salmon, wild cod and sardines and cod liver oil. However, it is difficult to regularly eat enough of these foods to build up your Vitamin D stores.
Get some sun exposure on your skin without sunscreen for 20-30 minutes in the morning or late afternoon. Do use sunscreen during the midday to protect your skin.
Be sure to take the correct biologically active form of Vitamin D which is Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol), not Vitamin D2.
Be sure to get retested to monitor your Vitamin D levels. A thorough health care provider will also monitor your blood levels of calcium and phosphorus and parathyroid hormone and may also monitor your urine for evidence of bone loss or order a bone density test.
Please do so under the supervision of a knowledgeable health care provider who can assess the risks and benefits of Vitamin D supplementation and recommend the appropriate dose for you as an individual, taking into account your complete health history and any current medications.
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Still, I take 3,000 IU of D3 daily. No change in muscle aches and cramping yet.
Kim Crawford,M.D./Anti-Aging Mind,Body,Skin Care
http://kimcrawfordmd.com
I was a skeptic of vitamins and supplements, choosing to never "waste" my money. It's not a waste, it's become absolutely necessary if I want to fee good. And I do.
I am getting gastric bypass & my Dr's nutritionist said that Vit D is very important for me after my surgery, especially as I am getting less food. After my blood test, I was only low in D and B1. I've been taking the supplements but I'm adding Vit D (of course, from my own lineup.) My B complex that I take only had about 1.5 mg of B1 so I am supplementing with one from costco for about 4 weeks (before and after surgery) to help with energy & metabolism. I've been obese w/out the health problems (yet.) No diabetes, no high bp, no high cholesterol - but I am majorly at risk for same if my weight doesn't change, so I'm making this
http://www.breastcancerchoices.org/f.html
"Research throughout the twentieth century found that clinical Vitamin D
deficiency disease of the bones can be caused by increased fluoride
intake"
"Increased fluoride intake also produced deficiency of the active vitamin D
metabolites (25OHD and 1,25OHD) normally produced by the liver and
kidney".
Europeans and Native Americans become paler as you move North. This is because for large periods of the year vitamin d is in very short supply. The body risks skin cancer in the summer to reduce the length of the vitamin d winter. Whether the reduction in skin pigmentation is evolution or a built in ability I do not know, an individual can certainly vary their skin colour. Genetic tests on some people in Yorkshire showed that many centuries ago a direct male ancestor was from Africa. The family name (which was odd for this area) and the facial features had passed through up the line but not the skin colour. For those who don't know it is 52 degrees North and it rains a lot in Yorkshire.
Has anyone else who takes a reasonably high dose (>5000IU D a day) noticed they tan very easily and tend not to sun burn, even though they used to burn easily in the past.
I do not burn at all. I seem to be impervious to UV at this point?
5000 I.U. is a normal dose of D3 for the most part. As you are well aware the goal is at least 50 ng/ml, year round (25 OH D).
After that everything pretty much takes care of itself....
So why in the world would this doctor believe that the following statement adds to her credibility, when in fact it diminishes it:
Dr Chilkov has been recognized as a go to clinician in Suzanne Somers' book "Knockout: Interviews with Doctors Who Are Curing Cancer--And How to Prevent Getting It in the First Place."
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That is rather like someone writing about Obama and concluding that Obama has been recognized as a go-to community organizer by Bill Ayers. Sommers may have a good heart, and some of what she says, just like some of what EVERYONE says, has some truth, but her book and the main body of her other work are filled with dangerous, life-threatening proposals.
I have never had my blood tested.. but I am certainly a believer.
But from what I have seen.. and heard from friends, the PNW is one of the most beautiful places in the country.. but better take your D ( and sneak into a tanning bed once and a while) !
~Vitamin D Council
it's not a stretch to say Doctors know little to nothing about nutrition.
Vitamin D 3&2 is added to a myriad of products at the market - not just milk.
This one vitamin is promoted and promoted through the media -lots of food products and all for the better health of consumers...really?
I have a problem trusting the mass media and Doctors - especially when they have no idea HOW vitamin D works.
Also before we were told never to expose babies/children to the sun they used to make plenty vitamin d of their own.
There is almost no vitamin d in food, even those which are supplemented. The levels are set so they stop rickets in most people, this is not an optimum level.
I never received that screwball memo, my infants saw and felt the sun.Sheesh.
Again, breast milk has very little D, according the the holy vitamin D council.
The US Dept of Agriculture says Rickets "is not due to vitamin D deficiency but is caused by not having enough calcium in the diet:
"Interpretive Summary: Rickets in toddlers is a large problem in parts of Africa, especially Nigeria. It is not due to vitamin D deficiency but is caused by not having enough calcium in the diet."
read more
http://www.ars.usda.gov/research/publications/publications.htm?SEQ_NO_115=169216
Vitamin-D-resistant form of rickets is rare.
Look at it this way, people have been working outside in the sun for millions of years, would they not have learned to benefit from the most dominant part of their environment? Why is UV exposure suddenly bad for people? UV exposure was demonized to sell SPF, and it has been very successful.
What makes you think it is found in the skins of animals? Most animal are covered in fur, wool or hair so the sun light does not reach their skin. The vitamin d is made from a precursor on the wool etc and is ingested by licking. Thus it is common for vitamin d to be ingested. Cod liver oil tends to be a poor source of vitamin D as it often contains vast amounts of vitamin A. Choose your cod liver oil with care.
D2 and D3 are as effective in controlling blood calcium levels but I have seen no evidence either way for other uses the body has for vitamin d.
Get lots of sun, with sunblock on areas normally exposed: face, neck, hands, chest.
If you do the above, you will not have a vitamin D deficiency.
If you don't, you will.
Testing is absolutely unnecessary, a waste of money, and clearly self-serving for the medical industry.
Bring back the other HP doctors, the ones who tell US how to care for our health, instead of the typical "ask your doctor" like in drug ads. This is an ad for medical services, not information.
I've known many people who lived to a very old age, one to 106. They all had one thing in common: they did not go to doctors unless they had symptoms. Don't let them sell you useless tests.