Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And that's why we started realizing that people who live in higher latitudes and are more prone to vitamin d deficiency and are more prone to developing common cancers and dying of them, such as cancer of the colon, prostate, breast and even ovaries. And we think that that's in part due to the body's inability to make enough activated vitamin D to help regulate cell growth and to keep cell growth in check.
Adams: That would explain the links between breast cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer and vitamin d deficiency.
Dr. Holick: Exactly. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 Most people who have Crohn's have a vitamin d deficiency. Some doctors are now prescribing UVB tanning beds three times a week for six months to get their patients' vitamin D back up to healthy levels!
Folic acid or folate, depending on its form, is just as important to human life. Folate gets its name from the Latin word for "leaf" because one of the best sources for folate is leafy greens like spinach and cabbage. Folate is an integral part of the cell growth system, helping the body to replicate DNA when cells divide. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Butter also contains all the other fat-soluble vitamins—E, K, and D. vitamin d deficiency is being called a "silent epidemic" by many nutritionists these days, many of whom don't believe we get nearly enough of this cancer-fighting, bone-building nutrient.
CLA in "Good" Butter Can Keep You Trim
When you eat animal products that come from healthy, grass-fed animals, you are getting the benefits of the animal's diet. Real feed for cows is green grass, not grains. |
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 B1, 250 mg of B6, and 500 meg of vitamin B12. vitamin d deficiency has been found in people with chronic hearing loss, so take 400 IU daily. Vitamin C is crucial for its anti-oxidant properties. Take 2,000 mg a day.
Herbs: Ginkgo biloba may also help to stabilize hearing loss; take 80-120 mg of ginkgo daily.
HOMEOPATHY
If hearing loss follows an infection the remedies below can be used. Also see Ear Infection (p. 248) and Glue Ear (p. 256) for additional recommendations.
Aconite: Use this remedy at the first sign of ear inflammation that follows exposure to dry, cold, and windy weather. |
| Other triggers include the use of steroid drugs, an overactive thyroid gland, chronic liver or kidney disease, and vitamin d deficiency.
SYMPTOMS
TREATMENT GOAL
• A fractured or broken bone can be the first indication of problems
• Bending forward into a hunched position
• Shortening of the spine due to fractured vertebrae
If you think you may have osteoporosis or are at risk of it, have your bone density measured. Treatment aims to prevent further deterioration and protect against complications such as fractures and broken bones.
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| Garland, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Diego, and his colleagues examined 63 previous studies that looked at possible links between several types of cancer and a vitamin d deficiency. According to the researchers, the studies suggest that vitamin D can reduce the risk of colon, breast and ovarian cancers, among others, by as much as 50%.
The study authors found that people who are African-American, overweight, elderly or live in the Northeast are typically not getting enough vitamin D. They theorized on possible reasons for these results. |
| However, a lesser-known role is that it regulates cell growth and determines what a cell becomes. A vitamin d deficiency may allow cells to become cancerous rather than becoming healthy cells."
WHAT TO DO?
The experts are divided on dosage recommendations for vitamin D.
Garland urges everyone to consume 1,000 international units (IUs) a day of the active form of vitamin D (also known as vitamin D-3), which can be found in yogurt, cheese, orange juice, fatty fish and milk. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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 If you have a weird pins-and-needles feeling on your lips that isn't herpes, it may be a sign of a calcium or vitamin d deficiency. A feeling of tingliness or numbness on the lips or elsewhere—medically known as paresthesia (see Chapter 7)—may be one of the earliest signs of kidney disease. Oral tingling can also signal diabetes: when blood sugar isn't under control, the nerves in the mouth and other parts of the body can be damaged. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Sunscreen directly promotes vitamin d deficiency. You show me a person who regularly uses sunscreen, and I'll show you a person who's on the road towards cancer and other degenerative diseases. People who use sunscreen are killing themselves and they don't even know it!
The sunscreen marketing con
The marketing of sunscreen is another great example of consumer product companies fabricating a need in order to sell a high-profit product made mostly with toxic chemicals. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And during the wintertime you're more prone to vitamin d deficiency. And he's done studies in mice to show that vitamin D seems to be critically important for the development of the brain. So there is some suggestive evidence that maybe indeed vitamin d deficiency, especially in utero as well as in infancy could potentially increase that individual's risk of developing schizophrenia later in life.
Adams: Fascinating. So here's another question then. If sunlight could be bottled up and put in capsules and patented by pharmaceutical companies, how much would they charge for it?
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Hyla Cass, M.D.
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 Symptoms of vitamin d deficiency include unexplained weakness, pain in the joints, and depression, especially seasonal affective disorder (SAD). If you avoid sun in the summer, take it all year round. Vitamin D is fat-soluble, meaning that it can be stored up in the body, and that it can accumulate to toxic levels if you take too much. You can have your doctor test your vitamin D levels in the form of 25-hydroxy-vitamin D.
Dose: 1,000 (international units) IU a day throughout the winter. |
Jack Challem
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 People who are overweight or those with diabetes are especially susceptible to vitamin d deficiency. In a large study, almost two of every three people with diabetes were deficient in vitamin D. In another study, 15 percent of obese patients were deficient in vitamin D. The reason, according to Anastassios G. Pittas, M.D., of the Tufts-New England Medical Center, is that vitamin D is stored in fat cells, away from other tissues that need it. |
Mike Adams
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 Vitamin D is used around the world to treat Psoriasis.
** vitamin d deficiency causes schizophrenia.
Seasonal Affective Disorder is caused by a melatonin imbalance initiated by lack of exposure to sunlight.
Chronic vitamin d deficiency is often misdiagnosed as fibromyalgia because its symptoms are so similar: muscle weakness, aches, and pains.
Your risk of developing serious diseases like diabetes and cancer is reduced 50 to 80 percent through simple, sensible exposure to natural sunlight two to three times each week. |
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The common cause behind these diseases
Depression and osteoporosis share a common cause: Chronic vitamin d deficiency. A lack of vitamin D in your body will make you depressed. It will also cause your bones to become brittle, leading to a diagnosis of osteoporosis. Vitamin D, you see, is necessary for the body to successfully use calcium, and if you don't have sufficient levels of vitamin D in your body, you can take all the calcium you want and you'll never boost bone mineral density. |
Mike Adams
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| Chronic vitamin d deficiency is often misdiagnosed as fibromyalgia because its symptoms are so similar: muscle weakness, aches, and pains.
Your risk of developing serious diseases like diabetes and cancer is reduced 50 to 80 percent through simple, sensible exposure to natural sunlight two to three times each week.
Infants who receive vitamin D supplementation (2000 units daily) have an 80 percent reduced risk of developing type 1 diabetes over the next twenty years.
Shocking vitamin d deficiency statistics:
*" 32 percent of doctors and med school students are vitamin D deficient. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 In fact, African Americans are especially at risk for vitamin d deficiency because having dark skin is like wearing a permanent sun protection factor of 15 to 30. Holick says that even 48 percent of Caucasian girls aged 9 to 11 are deficient in vitamin D at the end of the winter, and 17 percent of them remain so at the end of the summer because they're all wearing sunblock.
Inositol for Sleep
LOOK UP "sleep disorder" on Wikipedia and you'll get no fewer than seventeen different entries ranging from bruxism (grinding your teeth) to snoring. (There's even one called sexsomnia. Give up? |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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| Sure enough, rickets—the disease caused by a vitamin d deficiency that causes poor bone growth in children—was very common in African American populations until we started routinely fortifying milk with vitamin D in the last century. And there appear to be connections among sunlight, vitamin D, and prostate cancer in African Americans as well. There is growing evidence that vitamin D inhibits the growth of cancerous cells in the prostate and in other areas, including the colon, too. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The US government accomplishes this by keeping the recommendations for vitamin D artificially low, practically guaranteeing that anyone who follows the recommendations will eventually be diagnosed with cancer. vitamin d deficiency is the leading cause of breast cancer.
Most educated nutritionists agree that the daily dose of vitamin D for an adult should be at least 1000 IUs, perhaps as high as 1400. But the U.S. Institute of Medicine (IoM), which controls the recommendations on these things, currently states that adults under 50 only need 200 IUs of vitamin D a day. |
Stacy Malkan
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 All African Americans have vitamin d deficiency and they consequently have higher rates of cancer. Slathering on sunscreen is not such a good idea. We've gone too far with sunscreen because we're not getting enough Vitamin D. This is a "coming public health disaster in the US." Everyone should get a half hour of sunshine a day.
"People say the cancer rates are increasing, that's all nonsense." To illustrate the point, he showed several slides of declining cancer deaths.2 Natural and synthetic substances have the same cancer "hit rates. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 Finally, data suggest that magnesium may be crucial also, inasmuch as vitamin d deficiency seems to be associated with subclinical magnesium deficiency [14]. In brief, as already noted, diets are seldom deficient in just one nutrient, and tests of the efficacy of single nutrients may fail, as many have done [15], if all other intake shortfalls are not corrected as well.
Efforts can be made to overcome or compensate for many of these structural problems, once recognized, but contextual issues are more difficult to deal with. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 Again, vitamin d deficiency is a common variable.
LOLA'S STORY
Lola, thirty-seven, is a good example of the health vulnerability of young mothers. Too often, people attribute fatigue and body aches to the increased demands involved in taking care of young children. In truth, the problems are the demands of pregnancy and breast-feeding on a woman's body, especially when there are pregnancies within two years. This situation often drains the nutrient stores of the mother—protein and minerals—increasing her likelihood of experiencing symptoms from low vitamin D levels. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Insufficient bile secretion and disturbance of the cholesterol metabolism, both of which are caused by gallstones in the liver, lead to vitamin d deficiency. Lack of sufficient exposure to natural sunlight further aggravates these conditions.
Infection of bones, or osteomyelitis, may result when there has been a prolonged lymphatic obstruction in the body, especially in or around bone tissues. Consequently, blood-borne microbes gain unhindered access to bones. As mentioned before, infectious microbes only attack tissues that are acidified, weak, unstable, or damaged. |
Dan Buettner
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 Nicoyans regularly take in the sunshine, which helps their bodies produce vitamin D for strong bones and healthy body function. vitamin d deficiency is associated with a host of problems, such as osteoporosis and heart disease, but regular, "smart" sun exposure (about 15 minutes on the legs and arms) can help supplement your diet and make sure you're getting enough of this vital nutrient.
Embrace a common history.
Modern Nicoyans' roots to the indigenous Chorotega and their traditions have enabled them to remain relatively free of stress. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 However, these women may have had a calcium and/or vitamin d deficiency due to diet or lack of sunlight as a result of their environment.
Other studies of individuals outside nursing homes found that vitamin D and calcium supplementation had no beneficial effects in terms of hip-fracture prevention.18 One study of patients who had had a fracture and became immobile did not find any benefit from vitamin D and calcium in the prevention of secondary fractures. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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| Some dermatologists have advocated for no sun exposure [51]; however, the World Health organization (WHO) Report [56] on solar UV radiation indicates that it is not appropriate to strive for zero sun exposure as this would create a huge burden of skeletal disease from vitamin d deficiency. However, it is important to avoid excess exposure because this has been linked with skin cancers and skin photoaging [51]. A rational scheme to achieve skin synthesis of cholecalciferol without significant risk of overexposure has been published [8]. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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| With severe vitamin d deficiency and metabolic acidosis, you don't produce protein; instead, your body breaks down muscle to buffer the acid-base imbalance. The upshot is weak muscles and reduced coordination. Higher vitamin D levels and supplementation are linked to increased power, improved relaxation, and enhanced coordination.
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Dr. Heike Bischoff-Ferrari, at the University of Basel in Switzerland, led a group that gave either placebos or vitamin D 800 IU with calcium of 1,200 milligrams to 122 older women with an average age of eighty-five. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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| Also, with respect to vitamin D, Cannell [21] has proposed recognition of a "vitamin D deficiency syndrome" consisting of low serum 25(OH)D levels together with some combination of osteoporosis, osteomalacia, poor calcium absorption, heart disease, hypertension, autoimmune disease, certain cancers, depression, and chronic pain, or any of the other disorders that have been plausibly linked to
III. APPROACHES
The validity of the foregoing analysis must be judged on its own merits, not on the feasibility or attractiveness of any solutions the authors may propose. |
Andreas Moritz
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| You cannot stop a vitamin d deficiency by taking supplements. Sunlight is the only real remedy. To make sufficient amounts of vitamin D, dark-skinned people need to spend at least two to three times longer in the sun than do Caucasians. Their skin absorbs sun rays less efficiently, hence their need for extended sun exposure. Not being exposed to enough sunlight puts African-American men, for example, at a much higher risk of developing cancer of the prostate than white American men. The use of sunscreens, including sunglasses, multiplies this risk. |
Andreas Moritz
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 The major cause of vitamin d deficiency among babies is keeping them in dark rooms with little or no natural light. But even with less than adequate sun exposure, they are still capable of absorbing sufficient amounts of calcium from the blood necessary for the building of healthy bones. While being breast-fed, an infant receives plenty of milk sugar and phospho-caseins, both excellent transporting agents for calcium. If there is anything that could cause rickets in babies, it is lack of mothers' milk and underexposure to sunlight. |
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