Vitamin D

Researchers at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse New York recently announced that pelvic floor disorders in women are associated with low vitamin D levels. In a paper published in the April issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dr. Samuel Badalian and Paula Rosenbaum studied 1,961 women and found 23% of American women over the age [...]

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Editor on April 8th, 2010

This is a reprint of the periodic newsletter from the Vitamin D Council, a non-profit trying to end the epidemic of vitamin D deficiency. Swedish Researchers on the Right Trail I continue to get encouraging emails – like the one at the end of this newsletter – from parents of autistic children. At the same [...]

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A Vitamin D Council newsletter is republished below. It should be of considerable interest to anyone with an autistic child and to those who care for such people, whether professionally or personally. Please read both the case report as submitted to Dr Cannell and Dr Cannell’s brief discussion following. The Vitamin D Newsletter  January 30, [...]

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Editor on December 16th, 2009

It is good to note that Harvard Medical School is aware of the importance of vitamin D. Consider this from a recent edition of the Harvard Health Letter: Heart disease. Falls and broken bones. Breast and prostate cancer. Depression and memory loss. These problems seem to have nothing in common, except that they are leading [...]

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Editor on September 28th, 2009

The following is a reproduction of a recent newsletter written by Dr John Cannell of The Vitamin D Council, a non-profit organization worthy of support. Five Harvard researchers accept the Vitamin D theory of autism. Last month, Dr. Dennis Kinney and four of his colleagues at Harvard University accepted the Vitamin D theory of autism [...]

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