Facts You Need To Know About Calcium and Vitamin D

  -Vitamin D 800-1000 IU/Day reduces cancer, osteoporosis, Type 1 diabetes, & multiple sclerosis
  -Vit D production decreases with age, so especially elderly people need higher levels.
  -The “National Academy of Sciences–Institute of Medicine recommended adequate intake [of vitamin D3] should be revised upward to at least 2,000 to 4,000 IU/day. Adoption of the new adequate intake [of vitamin D3] would substantially reduce the incidence of cancer, and there are no consistently established adverse effects of vitamin D3 intake in the range below 4,000 IU/day that would be sufficient to justify a lower adequate intake [of vitamin D3].”

(I personally recommend that patients try to get at least 2000 IU per day, especially if they do not get much daily exposure to sunlight.)
 
Vitamin D deficiency is now associated with higher risks of 22 forms of cancer, heart disease, multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis, flu and many other disorders!

An Intake of 2,000 IU/day of vitamin D3 would lead to 25% reduction in incidence of breast cancer and 27% reduction in incidence of colorectal cancer inNorth America.

Higher sun exposure in childhood and adolescence reduce the lifetime incidence of prostate cancer by about 50%.

Published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in June, 2007, a four-year clinical trial followed 1,200 women who took high levels of vitamin D and matched them against a control group who did not take the vitamin. Those rich in vitamin D had up to 77 percent fewer cancers as compared to the control group. That's twice the impact on cancer risk attributed to smoking!

The evidence that vitamin D has profound effects on our body's innate immunity is rapidly growing...

In a 2007 study, 104 women given vitamin D were three times less likely to report cold and flu symptoms than placebo controls. “A low dose (800 IU/day) not only reduced reported incidence, it abolished the seasonality of reported colds and flu. A higher dose (2000 IU/day), given during the last year of their trial, virtually eradicated all reports of colds or flu.

Pregnant women should consult their physicians about getting at least 2,000 international units (IU) of vitamin D daily - this is 10 times the current government recommendation, and much higher than you will find in prenatal vitamins!

1200 mg of Calcium per day also decreases risk of colon cancer by 27 percent.  This should be taken always with it's sister mineral in a 1:2 ratio, 600 mg Magnesium.

Ideally, healthy adults should get between 1500mg to 2000mg of Calcium per day, with 600mg to 1000mg of Magnesium.  After age 35 women can no longer deposit calcium into their bones using most regular supplements.  A supplemental form of calcium which can build bone in women after age 35-- and even after menopause--is called microcrystalline hydroxyapitate.  It is available from a few different companies, but the one I recommend  is “Bone Up” by Jarrow Formulas.  Six (6) capsules per day supply sufficient calcium, magnesium, some vitamin D, and many other cofactors for continued bone growth and maintenance. 

More than 50% of women already being treated for osteoporosis are Vitamin D deficient.
25-50 % of the population over age 50 is Vitamin D deficient

Vitamin D deficiency is associated with increased risk of…
-        22 types of cancer including breast, colon, and prostate
-        Multiple sclerosis
-        Hypertension
-        Rheumatoid Arthritis
-        Type I Diabetes
-        Chronic Pain Syndromes (90 percent of people with chronic non-specific pain have Vit D deficiency)

* Sometimes receiving about 10 Minutes of daily sun exposure can prevent Vit D deficiency *  The time of year, the latitude at which we live, the amount of clothing we wear, our skin pigmentation, and the amount of sun screen we have on are all factors which affect how much Vitamin D we can produce from the sun...

Click here to read an excellent article explaining these factors in detail.
Conditions Contributing to Vitamin D Deficiency (a partial list)
•       Geography – northern latitudes have decreased amounts of sun radiation
•       Weather/Season – overcast, rainy, or cold regions requiring less outdoor time and more
       clothes cover for the body
•       Statin Drug users or patients on cholesterol lowering medications
•       Malabsorption syndromes – especially interfering with fat digestion
•       Normal ageing
•       Institutionalized elderly patients with decreased sun exposure
•       Lack of sun exposure and sunscreen use – the UV(B) burning rays that sun screens are designed to  block are the same wavelength necessary to produce Vitamin D in the skin.
•       People who largely spend their days indoors due to work, climate, habit
•       Cancers: prostate, colon, breast
•       Long-term: use of prednisone, anti-convulsant medications
•       Use of medications with photosensitivity precautions
•       Liver and kidney disease – including kidney stones and gall stones
•       Congestive heart failure
•       Peripheral arterial disease
•       Rickets
•       Systemic Lupus Erathematosus (S.L.E.)
•       Osteoporosis
•       Osteomalacia

Approximately 3,000 research studies have been published in biomedical journals investigating the inverse association between vitamin D, its metabolites, and cancer, including 275 epidemiological studies, according to a PubMed search.

To date there have been 748 randomly controlled reasearch trials that assigned vitamin D supplements to
study participants, according to a  PubMed search in August 2008.” Supplementation was found to be safe
at levels up to 4,000 IU per day.*

* (Cedric F. Garland Dr PH, Edward D. Gorham MPH, PhD, Sharif B. Mohr MPH, FrankC. Garland PhD. Vitamin D for Cancer Prevention: Global Perspective Annals of Epidemiology Volume 19, Issue 7, July 2009, Pages 468-483 ))

THE POTENTIAL DANGERS OF CONSUMING GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS

While scientific progress and recent technological breakthroughs in the agricultural field have appeared to have many profoundly beneficial effects with respect to creating more plentiful and hardy crops, these breakthroughs may have come at a high cost.  The following article contains excerpts from various authors who look at some of the dangers in consuming genetically modified foods which you may not have been aware of.  

For example, some experts have found that, despite their outward appearance, many genetically modified foods contain only 2/3 or less of their original nutrient content, and compared with organic foods, genetically modified foods may typically have only 1/3 the nutrient content!


Here is a link to the full article published on my website...


www.depthhealing.com/ArticlesGMO.html

Study links painkillers to Birth Defects

The use of mild painkillers such as paracetamol (Tylenol), aspirin and ibuprofen during pregnancy may partly account for a sharp increase in male reproductive disorders in recent decades!

Here is a link to a study just recently published showing once more that any medications we take, when studied long enough, may reveal previously unknown very dangerous side-effects.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6A72VD20101108