Vitamin D
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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The Vitamin D Council, a nonprofit educational corporation based in California, launches their “Vitamin D and Cancer” campaign today, presenting 20 detailed summaries of the evidence on the role of vitamin D in preventing cancer. Epidemiologist Dr. William Grant prepared the evidence-based summaries. He is the founder of the nonprofit organization, Sunlight, Nutrition and Health […]
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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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Here is news from the Vitamin D Council. Professor Hector Palmer and his co-researchers at the Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology in Barcelona, Spain, announced this morning the reason vitamin D may be an effective treatment early in the course of colon cancer, yet have little effect later as the cancer becomes more widely spread. […]