How’s your vitamin D levels?
Lately there has been a lot of news about the importance of vitamin D. Why? Because there’s overwhelming evidence that vitamin D deficiency plays a crucial role in cancer development.
“The first event in cancer is loss of communication among cells due to, among other things, low vitamin D and calcium levels,” said epidemiologist Cedric Garland. “This loss may play a key role in cancer by disrupting the communication between cells that is essential to healthy cell turnover, allowing more aggressive cancer cells to take over.”
According to Dr. William Grant, Ph.D., internationally recognized research scientist and vitamin D expert, about 30 percent of cancer deaths – which amounts to 2 million worldwide and 200,000 in the United States – could be prevented each year with higher levels of vitamin D. Only smoking is a bigger risk factor for cancer.
Plus, there’s another benefit. Researchers do not know exactly how, but their findings indicate that vitamin D may also improve your mental ability.
So, how do you make sure you have the right level of vitamin D? For one thing, try getting a little sun! Vitamin D is often called the sunshine vitamin because your body is capable of producing about 10,000 IU of vitamin D each day when you’re out in the sun for a while. Now I know you may have concerns about getting cancer from too much sun exposure, but take a balanced approach and you will not have a problem.
Additionally, you will benefit from a supplement containing vitamin D, such as Immunotec’s Vitamin and Mineral Supplement. It is packed with 21 vitamins and minerals, including 800 IU (200% Daily Recommended Value) of vitamin D. This complete supplement is a highly absorbable multi-nutrient formula that targets daily dietary requirements for good health.
So, how’s you vitamin D? Are you getting a little sun? And are you benefiting from Immunotec’s Vitamin and Mineral Supplement? It can make more of a difference than you might realize.
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FYI- the doctor who did the raecersh stating that sunscreen may cause skin cancer was removed from his dermatology faculty position at Boston U because his raecersh was funded by the Indoor Tanning Association. Thought you’d like to know.However, as someone who has been literally sick all winter and recently diagnosed as being SEVERELY Vit D deficient I can tell you that it is no matter to take lightly. I have MS which is now linked to Vit D deficiency in some studies, a history of seasonal depression and, recently, almost zero-immune response this past winter. I’m on prescription level D now and after 3 weeks beginning to feel better.I think Runner’s World needs to do more on this topic. If you are above the latitude of St. Louis, approximately, you are never going to get enough sun to make Vit D during the winter impossible! Take a supplement of Vit D3 but first get your doctor to do the blood work up. I’m on a prescription of 100,000 IU (International Units) a week, split into 2 doses of 50,000IU. Shortly I’ll be retested to see what I’ll be doing next.GET TESTED PLEASE!
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Just wanted to add as more ppeole read and comment about this, I definitely do not think that any rumored risks to sunscreen outweigh the known benefits. I am sure I get enough vitamin D in general, I am just wary of taking any kind of advice to the extreme. I realize that I am lucky to have caught an oddly-behaving mole early, and that melanoma is one of the deadliest forms of cancer once it progresses beyond the surface of the skin. Some of us are just middle path ppeole who are cautious and aware, but dont’ want to become hypochondriacs. I know because I went through a brief phase of hypochondria after my biopsy, and it’s a HORRIBLE way to live. It’s possible that I should be more cautious than I am, but nobody seems to know just how diligent a person should be. We have a tendency in this culture nowadays to respond to risk by wearing a helmet and kneepads at all times. I admire Deena Kastor for still running and getting so much sun exposure in spite of her many serious instances of skin cancer, while taking all the precautions she reasonably can.
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