Nutrition
An excerpt from the Vitamin D Council Newsletter by Dr. John Cannell Most of us, including myself, have a primitive understanding of genetics. Genes are the things you inherit and pass down to your kids. Defects in those genes cause incurable diseases, if they don’t kill you outright. The defects, or mutations, are acquired over [...]
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A note from the Vitamin D Council. A group in Canada, led by Dr. Julia Knight at Mount Sinai Hospital, discovered that administration of 24,000 IU/week for four weeks was associated with lower estrogen levels and progesterone levels. Per 4 ng/ml increase in vitamin D, progesterone levels decreased by 10% and estrogen decreased by 3%. [...]
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A note from the Vitamin D Council. I have written before that vitamin D increases testosterone levels in men. It is not a minor effect. Pilz S, Frisch S, Koertke H, Kuhn J, Dreier J, Obermayer-Pietsch B, Wehr E, Zittermann A. Effect of vitamin D supplementation on testosterone levels in men. Horm Metab Res. 2011 [...]
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Pregnant women – like the rest of us – have a choice to make. Do we wait for the hundreds of randomized controlled trials that are currently being conducted to see if vitamin D helps, or do we act now, on what we know now? Today, pregnant women – and the rest of us – [...]
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After 13 year of silence, the quasi governmental agency, the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) Food and Nutrition Board (FNB), today recommended that a three-pound premature infant take virtually the same amount of vitamin D as a 300 pound pregnant woman. While that 400 IU/day dose is close to adequate for infants, 600 IU/day in pregnant [...]
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