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Vitamin D Prevents Cancer?
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| Summary: Vitamin D is growing in its importance as a daily supplement. Vitamin deficiency is known to contribute to many health conditions, mostly ricketts and osteoporosis. Recent research suggests that Vitamin D can prevent cancer and autoimmune conditions and Vitamin D supplementation can also help with Inflammatory Bowel conditions. Vitamin D3 is the most active form of Vitamin D. |
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Vitamin D Prevents Cancer?
Reductions
in the risk of cancer because of Vitamin D supplementation has been all
over the news the last couple of weeks. This is just another study to
add to many others that have confirmed to holistic physicians the
benefits of this special vitamin in preventing colon, prostate and
breast cancers (others also) as well as autoimmune conditions such as
rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, Crohn's Disease, all forms of
colitis and insulin dependent diabetes mellitus....and not to mention,
prevention of osteoporosis. If you're not taking Vitamin D...you
should be.
Spectacular
news! But wait...if you're female...I'll bet you already knew that it
was important to include Vitamin D in your calcium supplement to reduce
the risk of osteoporosis. If you're male...I'll bet you never worried
at all about Vitamin D...if you even take vitamins at all!
Now, there
are many more reasons to include Vitamin D in your wellness plan.
Studies over the past few years have been leading to a major
conclusion. People don't get enough Vitamin D and it's deficiency can
contribute to the aforementioned health conditions.
How can
this happen?...Vitamin D is free! Yep, it's from the sun! But
wait...the sun causes cancer...right? OK, this is getting too
confusing. Here's your lesson in Vitamin D creation and metabolism. The
sun hits our skin and with a process having to do with the liver and
kidneys...Vitamin D is created for our use throughout the body.
Problem
is...people are using sun screen in an almost obsessive manner and some
people hardly even get outside anymore. All it takes is about 15
minutes worth of sun exposure on our face and arms each day (sunscreen
free) to provide us with almost all the Vitamin D we need.
In a
society where people work indoors all day, get less and less outside
physical activity and if they do, they slather on sunscreen...the media
has got everyone scared to death that the sun causes skin cancer...it
doesn't, there are so many more factors to consider. Is it any wonder
that a Vitamin D deficiency is occurring?
Physicians
with scientific knowledge of the biochemistry of Vitamin D metabolism
know full well the involvement of the Vitamin D molecule and it's
deficiencies in the health conditions I mentioned previously. But what
type of Vitamin D?
The cholecalciferol form of Vitamin D, aka Vitamin D3 is the most active form. Make sure your supplement contains it.
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