How to Easily Prevent 75% of All Cancer Deaths and 100,000 Cases Every Year

Several prominent Vitamin D research studies have found that higher blood levels of the active and circulating form of vitamin D, 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D), are associated with significantly lower rates of colon, breast, ovarian, renal, pancreatic, aggressive prostate and other cancers.

For many years physicians and scientists believed that vitamin D’s role was limited to bone function and calcium metabolism. However, it is now understand that it impacts the function of more than 30,000 genes. Vitamin D is quite different from other vitamins, such as and E that are anti-oxidants. It is a hormone that plays a critical role throughout our bodies.

Recent research studies have linked its deficiency to flu epidemics, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, asthma, osteoarthritis, chronic pain, and other diseases.

The findings of population studies, combined with newly discovered mechanisms suggest a new model of cancer causes accounts for the actions of vitamin D’s active form.

Dr. Cedric Garland of the University of California, San Diego believes that 58,000 new cases of breast cancer and 49,000 new cases of colon cancer can be reduced each year in the US and Canada with appropriate vitamin D levels. He also believes 75% of all deaths from cancer in these two countries could be reduced as well if the active level of vitamin D is raised to 50 to 60 ng/ml.

He says there are no unreasonable risks from taking 2000 IU per day of vitamin D3 or from the elevated blood level of vitamin D 3. He also says that the time has come for a nationally coordinated effort to dramatically increase vitamin D intake that would not only prevent these tragically and costly diseases, but would also significantly improve our nation’s quality of life and level health.

In my opinion, as a physician, this is the most important body of research and information that I can ever share. I’ve seen countless numbers of people worried about their possibility of developing cancer, due to their family history. Now you an take a simple blood test and vitamin D3 supplements. What could be easier, when you consider the relief and peace of mind this approach provides.

Sometimes, the easiest solutions are the most challenging ones to accept.

Source: http://www.annalsofepidemiology.org/article/S1047-2797%2809%2900105-7/abstract

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