More good Info on Vitamin D3

[Randy]

There is an epidemic of vitamin D deficiency sweeping the world, and now we know why this is so important: New research reveals that vitamin D "arms" the immune system T cells, allowing them to protect you from invading microorganisms.

It gets even better: Vitamin D prevents cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, osteoporosis and much more. Read the latest on vitamin D in my feature article here:

http://www.naturalnews.com/028357_vitamin_D_deficiency.html

Here's more research on vitamin D: It slashes the risk of bowel cancer by an amazing 40 percent:

http://www.naturalnews.com/028356_bowel_cancer_vitamin_D.html

Yet more research shows that vitamin D improves insulin sensitivity, thereby helping prevent
type-2 diabetes:

http://www.naturalnews.com/028355_vitamin_D_insulin_sensitivity.html

[Randy]

Just a quick update to be sure folks understand the synergistic effects of the different vitamins and minerals in the body.

Also, remember that vitamin D needs numerous co-factors to work in the body. The ones you have to worry about are magnesium, zinc, boron and vitamin K because many people are deficient in these four nutrients. You can get these by simply eating a handful of seeds and nuts every day, while being careful to eat green leafy vegetables once a day.

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[Randy]

Putting this info here as I have had a question of the ratio of Calcium to Magnesium.  The balance is important to your overall health and both are better utilized by the body when getting enough D3.


Dear Dr. Cannell:

Curing magnesium deficiency with seeds and nuts is like curing vitamin D deficiency with egg yolks.

Barry, New York

Dear Barry:

Well said. Eating a handful of seeds and nuts every day and changing to whole grains may add another 100 mg/day of magnesium to total magnesium intake but at least 500 mg/day extra is needed to correct a magnesium deficiency.

As I have written, magnesium has similarities to calcium. Both are stored in the bones and bones need both to be healthy. Deficiencies of neither can be detected by a simple blood test. Total body deficiencies of both are the rule not the exception. Finally, vitamin D is involved in the absorption of both calcium and magnesium.

If the reader is like most Americans, you are deficient in magnesium. I recommend a product made by Trace Minerals (no financial relationship to the Council or my family), in Roy, Utah: (801) 731-6051.

One comes with a 1:1 calcium: magnesium ratio:

http://www.traceminerals.com/products/bone-joint/complete-calcium-magnesium-1-1-bone-joint

It also comes with a 2:1 calcium: magnesium ratio:

http://www.traceminerals.com/products/bone-joint/complete-calcium-magnesium-2-1-bone-joint

What I especially like is the trace minerals it contains from sea salt with the sodium removed. Bones need many of these trace minerals to be healthy. The 500 mg of magnesium will treat a magnesium deficiency but it will take a year or two to replenish your bone stores of magnesium. The amount of calcium that you choose depends on your dietary calcium. If you do not eat dairy products choose the 2:1 Ca:Mg ratio, if you eat dairy at least twice a day, choose the 1:1 ratio.

John Cannell, MD

[Randy]

Just found the attached PDF file on Sunlight and D3.  There is a lot of great info in it and I decided to paste these few paragraphs to give you a feel for it. 

Adams: In your research on this, how common is vitamin D deficiency in, say, the American population?

Dr. Holick: What’s really remarkable is that vitamin D deficiency is epidemic throughout the entire United States, through all age groups. And I’ll give you some examples. It’s well known that elders throughout the United States are at high risk. And upwards of 40-60% are at risk for vitamin D deficiency. But we also now realize that even younger adults that are otherwise active and who may be always wearing sunscreen before they go outdoors, or they never see the light of day because they’re working all the time. When we did a study in Boston, we found that students and doctors 18-29 years of age, at the end of the winter, 32%
were vitamin D deficient.

Adams: Wow.

Dr. Holick: More shocking, though, was that we also looked at young girls (working with Dr Sullivan and Dr Rosen in Maine) -- and these are Caucasian girls ages 9-11 - and we found that 48% were vitamin D deficient at the end of the winter. And 17% remained vitamin D deficient at the end of the summer because of wearing all the sun protection.

Adams: Now that’s even more shocking, it’s obviously a chronic deficiency.

Dr. Holick: But here’s even a bigger shock. I had been concerned, and others had been concerned as well, that if you’re not exposed to any sunlight or if you have very deep skin pigmentation, that you need 1000 international units of vitamin D to satisfy your body’s requirements. And so we reasoned that probably women during pregnancy, even though they’re taking their prenatal vitamins that contain 400 units of vitamin D, they’re only getting 40% of what they need. So we did a study at our hospital, and we looked at women coming in and giving birth, and we measured their vitamin D levels -- their 25-hydroxy vitamin D levels,
and the infants’ 25-hydroxy vitamin D levels at birth. 49 infant-mother pairs were looked at, mostly African-American and Hispanic but some Caucasian as well. 76% of mothers were severely vitamin D deficient.  81% of infants were severely vitamin D deficient.

Adams: That’s astonishing.

Dr. Holick: And so, what we’re now becoming more concerned about, me and many of the experts, is that infants that are vitamin D deficient at birth can remain vitamin D deficient for the first several months after birth, it may put them at risk of developing many chronic diseases later in life, including type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, as well as many of the common cancers of the breast, colon and prostate.