You probably don’t hear much from your doctor about DHEA. Since it’s a naturally occurring hormone and not patentable, its become a nutritional supplement in the US (though a drug in the EU). And doctors don’t get educated about nutritional supplements, at least not much (not yet). But I’ve been paying attention to DHEA for [...]
Finally, SOMEBODY is talking about the vitamin D—influenza connection. Researchers see link between vitamin D, flu immunity:
–In February, researchers reported a link between vitamin D levels in the blood and upper respiratory infections in a group of nearly 19,000 people ages 12 and older.
–A 2006 review article in the journal Epidemiology of Infection laid out [...]
With all the media coverage of the “swine flu” (H1N1) non-epidemic, I haven’t heard a single expert mention what could well be the most effective public health measure in preventing a pandemic—the recommendation for everyone to take enough vitamin D3 (or get enough un-blocked summer sun exposure) to get their 25-hydroxy vitamin D blood level [...]
OK, so this study published on Sciencedirect.com is in the language of medicine.
We speculate that symptomatic myalgia in statin-treated patients with concurrent vitamin D deficiency may reflect a reversible interaction between vitamin D deficiency and statins on skeletal muscle
What it says is that people with low vitamin D levels who take statins can get really [...]
A study of 36,000 women, half of whom took a gram of calcium and 400 IU of vitamin D for a period of 7 years was recently published in the Journal of the National Cancer Instutute
The main findings do not support a causal relationship between calcium and vitamin D supplement use and reduced breast cancer incidence, despite [...]
A recent study suggests that vitamin D may be one of our most crucial nutrients to health and long life continues to mount:
CHICAGO – New research linking low vitamin D levels with deaths from heart disease and other causes bolsters mounting evidence about the “sunshine” vitamin’s role in good health.
Patients with the lowest blood levels [...]
Scaring ourselves out of the sun may be fueling epidemics of cancer and autoimmune disease. Here’s a classic example:
There is no such thing as a safe tan, U.S. and British researchers said on Thursday.
They said in their review of published studies that tans and skin cancer both begin with DNA damage caused by exposure to [...]