Post by raphael on Aug 12, 2008 15:28:03 GMT -5
Are you getting enough? I take all kinds of herbs and supplements however after watching an ABC news blurb the other day I decided to go see what my intake was. Needless to say I'm lacking according to what I'm hearing you should be taking. So I went out and bought 2000 mg D3 soft gels. Now one drawback is that certain brands or types of Vitamin D could result in higher calcium levels in your blood. So you may want to do further research or ask your doctor. (he probably won't know )
On the ABC piece Dr. Timothy Johnson was asked how much he was taking and he said 1000mgs. The old RDA was set at 400mgs which many experts are saying isn't enough. The health benefits of getting a real good amount of vitamin D are numerous.
According to the reports I've seen many of us are deficient in this very valuable vitamin. It might be worth looking into for yourself and your families.
The new heart insights add to the growing awareness that widespread vitamin D deficiency—thought to affect one-third to one-half of U.S. adults middle-aged and older—may be putting people at greater risk of many common diseases. Pharmaceutical companies are developing anti-cancer drugs using vitamin D analogs, which are synthetic compounds that produce vitamin D's effects. There's also increasing interest in using vitamin D or its analogs to treat autoimmune disorders.
www2.med.umich.edu/prmc/media/newsroom/details.cfm?ID=334
Dr. Bischoff-Ferrari then presented Dr. Giovannucci's data that one reduces your risk of all cancers about 17% for every 10 ng/ml of vitamin D in your blood. For cancer of the digestive system, the risk reduction is 43%. His data indicates all Americans should be taking about 2,000 IU per day and some Americans need even more to minimize cancer risk. No one know where the curve flattens out; that is, no one knows how much further cancer reduction one gets from 20, 30, or 40 ng/ml incremental increases in blood levels.
ezinearticles.com/?The-Health-Benefits-of-Vitamin-D&id=977093
On the ABC piece Dr. Timothy Johnson was asked how much he was taking and he said 1000mgs. The old RDA was set at 400mgs which many experts are saying isn't enough. The health benefits of getting a real good amount of vitamin D are numerous.
According to the reports I've seen many of us are deficient in this very valuable vitamin. It might be worth looking into for yourself and your families.
The new heart insights add to the growing awareness that widespread vitamin D deficiency—thought to affect one-third to one-half of U.S. adults middle-aged and older—may be putting people at greater risk of many common diseases. Pharmaceutical companies are developing anti-cancer drugs using vitamin D analogs, which are synthetic compounds that produce vitamin D's effects. There's also increasing interest in using vitamin D or its analogs to treat autoimmune disorders.
www2.med.umich.edu/prmc/media/newsroom/details.cfm?ID=334
Dr. Bischoff-Ferrari then presented Dr. Giovannucci's data that one reduces your risk of all cancers about 17% for every 10 ng/ml of vitamin D in your blood. For cancer of the digestive system, the risk reduction is 43%. His data indicates all Americans should be taking about 2,000 IU per day and some Americans need even more to minimize cancer risk. No one know where the curve flattens out; that is, no one knows how much further cancer reduction one gets from 20, 30, or 40 ng/ml incremental increases in blood levels.
ezinearticles.com/?The-Health-Benefits-of-Vitamin-D&id=977093