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The real deal on vitamin D and UVR (sunlight) exposure—vital information crucial to health and well-being that might not be found in mainstream news.

Cancer Consultants Oncology Resource Center

  • 2009.03.10 Shedding Light on Vitamin D and Cancer Vitamin D's days of obscurity seem pretty much over. Once just an afterthought to most people—relegated to the sides of milk cartons and the pages of medical texts—it's now on the cusp of becoming a full-fledged disease prevention star.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Dynamic Chiropractic

  • 2009.04.16 Show Me the Light Heliotherapy (sunlight therapy) has a long tradition in Eastern health philosophy. It also has its place in Western healing arts. However, in the past few years heliophobia concerning skin cancer and skin aging has been the stronger trend in the West...

Endocrine Today

Heart Scan Blog - Dr. William Davis

  • 2009.01.23 Why an RDA for vitamin D? Now the FNB, in light of new data, wants to set new AI's, or even RDA's, for vitamin D for the U.S. This is an impossible—impossible—task. There is no way a broad policy can be crafted that serves everyone. It is impossible to state that all men or women, categorized by age, require X units vitamin D. This is pure folly and it is misleading.
  • 2009.01.16 Dangerous mis-information on vitamin D ...This is the same non-information that was the advice originally offered by the Food and Nutrition Board based on a best guesstimate due to lack of data. It is clear from newer data that doses required for full restoration of vitamin D are in the thousands of units.
  • 2007.08.08 Vitamin D2 belongs in the garbage The prescription form of vitamin D is nonsense. There's hardly any effect on blood levels of vitamin D3 at all. The body's conversion of this non-human form of D is extremely inefficient and therefore virtually useless.
  • 2007.06.22 Prescription Vitamin D With vitamin D in particular, the prescription form is vastly inferior to the over-the-counter preparation. This is because the prescription form is ergocalciferol, or vitamin D2, not the effective human form, vitamin D3 or cholecalciferol.

Jamaica Gleaner

  • 2007.04.30 Sunshine vitamin brightens your day Vitamin D is perhaps the single most underrated nutrient in the world. That's probably because it's free: Your body makes it when sunlight touches your skin. Drug companies can't sell you sunlight, so there's no promotion of its health benefits. On the contrary, a huge anti-sun campaign is used to promote sunscreen agents. This robs many people of the many health benefits of sunlight and vitamin D.

Jeffrey Dach MD

Lew Rockwell - Burlingame, CA, USA

  • 2008.10.03 Avoid Flu Shots, Take Vitamin D Instead Vitamin D levels in the blood fall to their lowest point during flu seasons. Unable to be protected by the body's own antibiotics (antimicrobial peptides) that this gene-expresser engineers, a person with a low vitamin D blood level is more vulnerable to contracting colds, influenza, and other respiratory infections (e.g., respiratory syncytial virus).
  • 2008.06.09 Millions of American Men at Undue Risk for a Heart Attack If a study of 18,225 American men (health professionals) age 40–75 years is reflective of the entire population of middle-aged males, three-quarters of adult males in the U.S. face a doubling of their risk for a heart attack due to low vitamin D levels. A vitamin D deficiency is far more predictive of a future heart attack than cholesterol, says a report due to be published in the Archives of Internal Medicine on Monday, June 9, 2008.
  • 2007.09.10 Vitamin D in a New Light There are thirteen vitamins humans need for growth and development and to maintain good health. The human body cannot make these essential bio-molecules. They must be supplied in the diet or by bacteria in the intestine, except for vitamin D. Skin makes vitamin D when exposed to ultraviolet B (UVB) radiation from the sun. A light-skinned person will synthesize 20,000 IU (international units) of vitamin D in 20 minutes sunbathing on a Caribbean beach.
  • 2007.04.30 Dropping 'D' Bomb On Cancer Because there are so many factors involved in cancer, it has been difficult to identify vitamin D as the sole factor responsible for lower rates of cancer in certain geographical areas. That is, till now.
  • 2007.02.20 Just One Pill Away Cutting cancer rates by 30–50%, heart disease by up to 70%, may be too much of a shock now that health care is an industry that relies upon volumes of patients to treat...Medical centers depend upon large numbers of patients to treat to pay off mortgages for building projects. Medical device and drug companies must churn high numbers not only to remain profitable, but to prop up their stock prices on Wall Street...It appears health authorities have misdirected the public.

Life Extension Foundation

  • 2009.04 The Link Between Autism and Low Levels of Vitamin D An epidemic of autism appears to be underway in the United States. According to several respected leaders in child and adult nutrition from across the United States, the current meteoric rise in autism and autism spectrum disorders (ASD) may well be a direct consequence of significant vitamin D deficiencies in pregnant women and their infants. And evidence points to vitamin D deficiency as the cause of other debilitating brain conditions as well. This insidious deficiency is readily remedied—yet tragically often missed.
  • 2009.01 Millions of needless deaths Back in 2007, I urged the federal government to declare a national emergency. My rationale was that millions of Americans were going to needlessly die if the epidemic of vitamin D insufficiency was not immediately corrected. My article was based on irrefutable scientific evidence documenting how vast numbers of lives could be spared if everyone took at least 1,000 IU of vitamin D3 each day.

Looking Fit Magazine

Medical News Today

  • 2006.09.15 Epidemic Influenza and Vitamin D A single, twenty-minute, full body exposure to summer sun will trigger the delivery of 20,000 units of vitamin D into the circulation of most people within 48 hours...Compare that to the 100 units you get from a glass of milk, or the several hundred daily units the U.S. government recommend as "Adequate Intake." It's what we call an "order of magnitude" difference.

Merchant Circle

  • 2009.01.13 How Commercialism Has Twisted Proper Sun Care ...This is one reason why most of these groups still recommend daily usage of sunscreen 365 days a year for people in all climates despite the fact that such a regimen clearly promotes over-use of sunscreen and may be contributing to the epidemic of Vitamin D deficiency in North America today.

Nutrition Reporter

  • 2008.12.18 Pediatricians Ensuring Vitamin D Deficiency in Children So while the American Academy of Pediatrics has increased its recommendations for vitamin D, the organization essentially chickened out when it came to a meaningful recommendation. By proposing that infants and children receive only 400 IU of vitamin D daily, the Academy has ensured continued, widespread deficiencies.

Phys Org.com - Evergreen, VA, USA

  • 2009.06.30 Vitamin D deficiency is widespead and on the increase A new report issued by the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) and published in the scientific journal Osteoporosis International, shows that populations across the globe are suffering from the impact of low levels of vitamin D. The problem is widespread and on the increase, with potentially severe repercussions for overall health and fracture rates.

Scientific American

  • 2009.04 What If Vitamin D Deficiency Is a Cause of Autism? A few researchers are turning their attention to the sunshine vitamin as a culprit, prompted by the experience of immigrants that have moved from their equatorial country to two northern latitude locations.

Spacedoc.net

  • Statins and Vitamin D Deficiency In my book, Statin Drugs Side Effects and the Misguided War on Cholesterol, and on this website I have discussed the vital role of cholesterol in the human body. Our most important hormones depend upon adequate reserves of cholesterol for their production and nowhere is this more important than as the precursor substance for the synthesis of Vitamin D, known also as calcitriol.

To Your Health

  • 2009.06 The Sunscreen Dilemma Wearing sunscreen prevents sunburns, but research suggests it might not reduce your risk of developing cancer; in fact, it might actually increase your risk...these sunscreens prevent the skin from making vitamin D from sunlight — and many studies now suggest that vitamin D is protective against cancer.

Vital Choices

Wittenberg Door, The

  • 2008.11.07 Vitamin D—A Gene-Regulating Super Nutrient All your body organs and cells have receptors for vitamin D, meaning that vitamin D communicates all around your body. Your cells use vitamin D to directly regulate your genes, making it one of the most powerful compounds in human health.
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