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The real deal on vitamin D and UVR (sunlight) exposure—vital information crucial to health and well-being that might not be found in mainstream news.

Cancer Directory.com

• 2008.11.25 Vitamin D doesn't work—Oh really? Almost every study that 'disproves' the value of taking vitamin and mineral supplements does so by testing small quantities of the item. In this case, the women seeking a protective effect from vitamin D were only taking 400iu. if you look up the Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA)—or 'Reference Intakes' as they are now known as—you will find that the figure is 400iu. So the study has shown that the standard recommended allowance of vitamin D is useless.

Chicago Tribune - United States

• 2008.10.14Vitamin D levels 'a joke' Bruce Hollis, professor of pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina has long said the recommended daily allowance—200 to 400 international units per day—is a joke. Instead, he suggests supplementing with at least 2,000 IU's or higher, especially between October and April for Chicagoans.

CBN - Virginia Beach, VA, USA

• 2008.11.04Just How Effective is the Flu Vaccine? We hear more and more about the flu vaccine. But is it worth the shot in the arm? Or is it a shot in the dark?

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

• 2007.03.08"Guardian of the genome" protein found to underlie skin tanning A protein known as the "master watchman of the genome" for its ability to guard against cancer-causing DNA damage has been found to provide an entirely different level of cancer protection: By prompting the skin to tan in response to ultraviolet light from the sun, it deters the development of melanoma skin cancer, the fastest-increasing form of cancer in the world.

Dr. Marc Sorenson Blog

• 2008.11.13Don't be deceived! Adequate Vitamin D does profoundly reduce the risk of breast cancer! First of all, the amount of supplementation used was 400 IU daily. That miniscule amount is like feeding a starving woman nothing more than a daily peanut! 400 IU is barely sufficient to prevent rickets, much less stave off cancer. More than a year ago, another study, this one done by researchers who understood vitamin D, showed that supplementing about 1,100 IU along with calcium for four years reduced the risk of all cancers in women by 60–77%.
• 2008.10.28Breast-cancer prevention and treatment with vitamin D and sunlight: Is the most potent anti-cancer agent being ignored? ...it is known that girls who have the greatest exposure to sunlight during the ages of 10–19 have a 35% decreased risk of cancer as adults when compared to those who had the least exposure.

Family Health and Safety

• 2008.10.21Should you get the flu shot? Or just take Vitamin D? A recent study published in the October issue of the Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine found that vaccinating young children against the flu appeared to have no impact on flu-related hospitalizations or doctor visits during two recent flu seasons.

Heart Scan Blog, William Davis MD

• 2007.08.08Vitamin D2 belongs in the garbage The prescription form of vitamin D is nonsense. There's hardly any effect on blood levels of vitamin D3 at all. The body's conversion of this non-human form of D is extremely inefficient and therefore virtually useless.
• 2007.06.22Prescription Vitamin D With vitamin D in particular, the prescription form is vastly inferior to the over-the-counter preparation. This is because the prescription form is ergocalciferol, or vitamin D2, not the effective human form, vitamin D3 or cholecalciferol.

Jamaica Gleaner

• 2007.04.30Sunshine vitamin brightens your day Vitamin D is perhaps the single most underrated nutrient in the world. That's probably because it's free: Your body makes it when sunlight touches your skin. Drug companies can't sell you sunlight, so there's no promotion of its health benefits. On the contrary, a huge anti-sun campaign is used to promote sunscreen agents. This robs many people of the many health benefits of sunlight and vitamin D.

LewRockwell.com

• 2008.10.03Avoid Flu Shots, Take Vitamin D Instead Vitamin D levels in the blood fall to their lowest point during flu seasons. Unable to be protected by the body's own antibiotics (antimicrobial peptides) that this gene-expresser engineers, a person with a low vitamin D blood level is more vulnerable to contracting colds, influenza, and other respiratory infections (e.g., respiratory syncytial virus).
• 2008.06.09Millions of American Men at Undue Risk for a Heart Attack If a study of 18,225 American men (health professionals) age 40–75 years is reflective of the entire population of middle-aged males, three-quarters of adult males in the U.S. face a doubling of their risk for a heart attack due to low vitamin D levels. A vitamin D deficiency is far more predictive of a future heart attack than cholesterol, says a report due to be published in the Archives of Internal Medicine on Monday, June 9, 2008.
• 2007.04.30Dropping 'D' Bomb On Cancer Because there are so many factors involved in cancer, it has been difficult to identify vitamin D as the sole factor responsible for lower rates of cancer in certain geographical areas. That is, till now.
• 2007.02.20 Just One Pill Away Cutting cancer rates by 30–50%, heart disease by up to 70%, may be too much of a shock now that health care is an industry that relies upon volumes of patients to treat...Medical centers depend upon large numbers of patients to treat to pay off mortgages for building projects. Medical device and drug companies must churn high numbers not only to remain profitable, but to prop up their stock prices on Wall Street...It appears health authorities have misdirected the public.

Looking Fit Magazine

• 2008.08 Top 10 Myths About Vitamin D As more studies focus on the health benefits of vitamin D, many questions regarding deficiency and the "sunshine vitamin" are being raised. To help explain vitamin D a bit better, Jared M. Skowron, who specializes in pediatrics and the treatment of autistic spectrum disorders in children, created a list of the top 10 myths regarding vitamin D.
• 2007.08The Elephant In The Living Room Is Still Being Ignored ...15 minutes of sunlight exposure once or twice a week is not enough to attain and maintain an optimal level (150 nmol/L) of vitamin D year-round.

UVR-Induced Vitamin D: The Elephant Sitting In The Living Room

Five-part series of articles that discusses the reasons why vitamin D is so important to the health and welfare of Americans.

• 2006.06Part I How cancer, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, coronary heart disease, rickets, and osteoporosis are all diseases "mediated" by vitamin D.
• 2006.07Part II How much vitamin D is necessary for optimal health, where to get vitamin D, the recommended dosage, maintaining optimal vitamin D blood levels for specific periods of life, and more.
• 2006.08Part III How to safely attain and maintain an optimal blood level of vitamin D year-round, and why UVR does not induce cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM).
• 2006.09Part IV How and why the annual incidence of Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer (NMSC) "guesstimate" is false, plus data regarding the true incidence and mortality of CMM.
• 2006.10Part V—Is FM Broadcast Radiation Causing An Increase In Melanoma? How frequency modulation (FM) broadcast radiation may be the "real culprit" that has induced the recent increase in the incidence of CMM.

Medical News Today

• 2006.09.15Epidemic Influenza and Vitamin D A single, twenty-minute, full body exposure to summer sun will trigger the delivery of 20,000 units of vitamin D into the circulation of most people within 48 hours...Compare that to the 100 units you get from a glass of milk, or the several hundred daily units the U.S. government recommend as "Adequate Intake." It's what we call an "order of magnitude" difference.
• 2005.05.23Healthcare Professionals Ignore Vitamin D Deficiency Epidemic Numerous vitamin D researchers across the country recently concluded that recommendations given by The 1997 Food and Nutrition Board (FNB) actually put many Americans at risk...
• 2005.05.23When you want advice on Vitamin D ...All this leaves the Institute of Medicine in a difficult situation. They failed in their duty to inform Americans of facts any reasonable person would want to know.

Mercola.com

• 2008.09.02Warning: Are Your Vitamin D Test Results Valid? Recent developments in 2008 have made it clear that there are irregularities in the values obtained from the different testing methods. Although results from any of the three commonly used assays may be analytically accurate, they might not be clinically accurate.
• 2006.10.26Beware of Most Prescription Vitamin D Supplements! ...nearly all the prescription-based supplements contain synthetic vitamin D2, which was first produced in the 1920s through ultraviolet exposure of foods. The process was patented and licensed to drug companies for use in prescription vitamins. In case you didn't know, the vitamin D that is added to milk is not D3 but the highly inferior vitamin D2.

MinnPost - Minneapolis, MN, USA

• 2008.10.22Vitamin D nears superstar status, as few get enough Last week the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued a clinical report recommending that all children, from newborn infants to adolescents, double the amount of vitamin D in their daily diet...If you're Dr. Greg Plotnikoff, medical director of the Penny George Institute for Health and Healing at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis, twice as much isn't nearly enough. Plotnikoff has a strong background in interventional nutrition, and he's researched and written about vitamin D. He believes the AAP recommendations lag well behind the most current scientific literature. "If you're looking for a word: disappointing..."

Mother Earth News

• 2008.02–03Vitamin D: Sunshine and So Much More If this vitamin isn't in your medicine cabinet, it probably should be.

New Media Explorer

• 2006.12.17Statins and Vitamin D Deficiency—Another Blow Cholesterol must be available in our bodies in amounts sufficient to allow UVB conversion to vitamin D...Into this heterogenous pool we dump statins indiscriminately in a misguided attempt to bring everyone's natural level of cholesterol down to some artificially low level. Need I add that eight of the nine people making the 2004 cholesterol guidelines were subsidized one way or another by the statin drug manufacturer?

Nutrition Reporter

• 2008.12.18 Pediatricians Ensuring Vitamin D Deficiency in Children So while the American Academy of Pediatrics has increased its recommendations for vitamin D, the organization essentially chickened out when it came to a meaningful recommendation. By proposing that infants and children receive only 400 IU of vitamin D daily, the Academy has ensured continued, widespread deficiencies.

pro-longevity.blogspot.com

• 2008.09.05When Should You Go Out in the Sun? New research shows that to get an optimal vitamin D supplement from the sun at a minimal risk of getting cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM), the best time of sun exposure is noon.

Times Online - United Kingdom

• 2008.10.06Vitamin D story compels experts to act There is a sound rationale for supplying supplements of vitamin D to the Scottish population. The case that deficiency contributes to their relative health deficit has recently been outlined in The Times and deserves timely consideration.

University of California, Riverside

• 2006.04.24International Meeting of Vitamin D Scientists Reveals Most Not Getting Enough to Maintain Health Consensus from the 13th vitamin D Workshop seeks to increase upper limits of daily nutrient intake to maintain bone and tooth health for most of the globe's inhabitants.

UVTalk.com

• 2008.10.07Myth: Sunbathing Is Bad for Your Health If this research isn't enough motivation to make you want to increase your vitamin D levels, maybe some of the more recent research linking vitamin D deficiency and cancer will make you change your mind. It has been estimated that every year between 50,000 and 63,000 individuals in this country die prematurely from various cancers caused by insufficient vitamin D.

Vital Choices

• 2007.07.23Cancer Society's Anti-Sun Ads Decried as Deceptive Studies point to omega-6/omega-3 imbalance as a greater factor in skin cancer deaths; Excessive sun avoidance may raise overall cancer risk.
• 2005.06.03The Neglected Nutrient, Part 1: Vitamin D vs. Cancer ...vitamin D research by Dr. Grant and others indicates that you need much more than the minimum RDA for maximum reduction of cancer risk.

Wittenberg Door, The

• 2008.11.07Vitamin D—A Gene-Regulating Super Nutrient All your body organs and cells have receptors for vitamin D, meaning that vitamin D communicates all around your body. Your cells use vitamin D to directly regulate your genes, making it one of the most powerful compounds in human health.