Vitamin D
Metabolic clearance of vitamin D after heart attack This week, Dr. Julian Barth, and colleagues, of the University of Leeds, discovered that vitamin D levels do not decline after a heart attack. At least they do not decline beginning 2 days after the heart attack. This implies vitamin D is not being “used up” or [...]
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The following article is by Dr John Cannell of the Vitamin D Council. Dr. Gerry Schwalfenberg of the University of Alberta just published the first case report of a woman with a treacherous autoimmune disorder, idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura or ITP, that vitamin D apparently cured. Schwalfenberg GK. Solar radiation and vitamin d: mitigating environmental factors [...]
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The following article is from the Vitamin D Newsletter by Dr John Cannell. In a recent clinical review on autism and vitamin D, Dr. Eva Kocovska and colleagues from the University of Glasgow called for “urgent research” on vitamin D’s role in autism. Kočovská E, Fernell E, Billstedt E, Minnis H, Gillberg C. Vitamin D [...]
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From Vitamin D Newsletter by Dr John Cannell, Vitamin D Council, 28 February 2012. Heart failure is a condition where the body can’t pump enough blood to meet the needs of its body. When we think of heart failure, we think of older persons whose heart has worn out, not 4-month-old infants. However, chronic congestive [...]
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Taken from the Vitamin D Council Newsletter January 30, 2012 — Dr John Cannell Every year, billions are spent in fertility clinics; the result of which is often in vitro fertilization (IVF). About 5 years ago, I began receiving emails from a nurse practitioner in Indiana who works in a fertility clinic. Her experience was [...]
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