Vitamin D Guards Against Artery Disease

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warmheart — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:44:46 GMT

Finally after all these years I'm finally learning the truth about sun.

I grew up on a farm in Northern Alberta, Canada. When it was sunny I was out the whole day. We were never told to put lotion on, and we didnt have sun glasses till we got older.I remember getting cod liver oil caps in school. We lived the good life. I have to admit that sometimes I thought Mom and Dad should have told us to cover up,cause we were so brainwashed by everything. They knew more then I thought.

Really enjoy your newsletter here in Canada.

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Robyn B — Tue, 13 May 2008 14:35:47 GMT

Get Tested, get tested, get tested. I can't say that enough. Don't wait for a doctor to tell you that you should be tested.......tell them you want to be tested NOW. I have learned via 5 years of painful, extreme fatigue filled days that mulitple doctors were unable to diagnois. Just by chance I had my Vit D tested............I was less than 7!!!!!!! With it D supplement I started to see positive results with better energy within 2-3 weeks. I've been told it may take a year or more for the bone pain to subside. I am looking forward to future blood studies to see if the Vit D correction has had a positive impact on my glucose & CRP levels-both of which were increasing over the past several years. Both of these can be effected by Vit D. Please research this topic and you will be amazed how important Vit D is to your overall health.

Good Luck

Robyn

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Linda M — Sat, 10 May 2008 17:11:17 GMT

there are doctors who are researching vitamin D and have found that if a pregnant woman has enough vitamin D circulating in her blood then her breast milk and her infant will have optimal levels of vitamin D too. The Vitamin D Council is an excellent source of information about the latest research on vitamin D. The eb site is www.vitamindcouncil.org. An excerpt from their latest newsletter:Hollis BW, Wagner CL, Drezner MK, Binkley NC. Circulating vitamin D3 and 25-hydroxyvitamin D in humans: An important tool to define adequate nutritional vitamin D status. <www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/.../17218096 J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol. 2007 Mar;103(3-5):631-4 <www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/.../17218096 .

Bruce kept the audience enthralled with a review of all the disease states that indicate 25(OH)D levels need to be much higher than they are now, that is, the multiple biomarkers that suggest the lower limit of 25(OH)D levels should be above 40 ng/ml and closer to 50 ng/ml. Then Professor Hollis spoke of his ongoing study in pregnant women and how he got approval to use 4,000 IU of vitamin D per day back in 2003, quite an accomplishment. He also reviewed another one of his research projects, one that answered an age old question, why is breast milk a poor source of vitamin D? How were prehistoric infants supposed to get their vitamin D, by lying out in the sun where saber tooth tigers would eat them? No, they were hidden in caves and had to have another source or the human race would have died out long ago because rickets destroys a woman's and infant's chance to live through childbirth due to rachitic deformations of the mother's pelvis. Carol Wagner and Bruce Hollis, together with their colleagues, answered that age old question, human breast milk is a poor vitamin D source because virtually all modern mothers are vitamin D deficient. That is, when pregnant women keep their levels where we think prehistoric human levels were, about 50 ng/ml, breast milk becomes a rich source of vitamin D. First Carol and Bruce gave 2,000 IU per day, then 4,000 IU per day and finally 6400 IU of D3 per day to lactating women. Only at 6400 of D3/day did the women maintain both their own 25(OH)D levels and the levels of their breast feeding babies above 50 ng/ml. On 6400 IU/day, the vitamin D activity of the breast milk went from about 80 to 800 IU/L. Quite a discovery, and another reason for all of us to keep our levels above 50 ng/ml.

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Carol geyer — Sat, 10 May 2008 15:27:49 GMT

Studies are showing that people living near the equator have levels testing much higher than 55...more like 80.

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datkat — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:28:12 GMT

Very informative article, does that also mean that Vitamin D can assist with varicose veins? Does anyone have any information on that?

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phooey — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:17:44 GMT

I am going to guess that PAD just like CAD is caused more by calcification, not fatty deposits. This would better explain the benefit of vitamin D here.

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ZPE — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:25:41 GMT

Wow - more good press on Vit D!

Get out into that sunshine.... (before the FDA outlaws it!) ;-)