In the past few years, researchers all over the world have found that vitamin D deficiency is common. It affects about one billion people, and at least half of all older adults in the United States. Vitamin D is an import tool in disease prevention and, in the past decade, it has proven to be possibly natural medicine’s best tool for cancer protection.
Last Friday, the Canadian Cancer Society took a major step and said that all adults should start taking vitamin D every day. It is the first time that a significant health organization has fully endorsed the use of this nutrient in cancer prevention. A large number of studies have investigated this ability of vitamin D, yet the Society’s advice is likely spurred by new findings out of the U.S.
Researchers there have discovered that vitamin D supplements slash your risk of cancer by as much as 60%. That, all experts agree, is a huge number.
Vitamin D is known as the sunshine vitamin. It helps to keep bones and teeth healthy and keeps your muscles strong. Recent research has also pointed to vitamin D’s role in boosting the immune system. In the latest health news, researchers at the University of California have discovered another health breakthrough about vitamin D: it plays a critical role in your body’s ability to fight off infections. And not just any infection, but a potentially life-threatening one like tuberculosis (TB).
A new study shows a big new arena for vitamin D in terms of health. The nutrient that keeps coming up in the news has sprung forth in this area: preventing lung diseases. And not just any lung disease; “autoimmune” diseases that have no cure and are quite serious.
So vitamin D might just protect your lungs. The new findings are reported in the current issue of “Chest.”
Another health breakthrough for vitamin D has this solar nutrient providing protection from a very difficult form of joint pain. Without sufficient vitamin-D levels, the body may be left with less protection from psoriatic arthritis.
With the spotlight constantly on calcium, vitamin D–an equally important nutrient–often gets forgotten even though it holds a lot of weight in the maintenance of our good health. Unfortunately, in our society, the focus has been firmly set upon calcium, which is found in milk and other places, in keeping our bones strong and preventing osteoporosis. But, as the results of a surprising new study have indicated, we are missing the boat on vitamin D. And it deserves some major mention, in fact, almost as much as calcium, because without it your body won’t even absorb calcium! People can chug back all the milk they want, but if they have low levels of vitamin D that calcium isn’t going anywhere.
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