A randomized trial by Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center researchers indicates that magnesium optimizes vitamin D status, raising it in people with deficient levels and lowering it in people with high levels.
According to the latest media reports, this season’s flu is more intense and occurring more often that it has in other recent years. Studies have determined a nutrient can help prevent and shorten its symptoms in babies and adults.
Over the years, I’ve shared with you the critical importance of a key vitamin in preventing and reversing chronic diseases.
Vitamin D deficiency is linked to the increased risk of developing several chronic diseases, including heart disease, heart attacks, and strokes. A new study determined the deficiency level associated with the increased risk of developing heart conditions.
Do you get the winter blues? Many people do, and if you’re one of them, you might want to consider checking your Vitamin D level, as we now know that Vitamin D deficiency is not just harmful to physical health. It also might impact mental health, according to a team of researchers that has found a link between seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, and a lack of sunlight.
The results of a systematic view recently published in the American Journal of Public Health , involving more that 560,00 people confirms what a number of studies conducted over the past decade have indicated: that having a higher vitamin D level is associated with a lower risk of dying prematurely.
Do you take vitamin D? It is one of the most potent health enhancing vitamins known, and I’ve written about it extensively. If you don’t, perhaps the findings of this study will persuade you to reconsider doing so. I am very happy to share this study with you, as it is very instructive as to how to prevent cancer with adequate vitamin D intake (and blood levels).
The importance of vitamin D and health continues to occur. A new study conducted by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine found that people with lower blood levels of vitamin D were twice as likely to die prematurely as people with higher blood levels of vitamin D.