Prospective Study--Vitamin D supplementation, cancer, graphically shown

[Celebration]

This speaks for itself. The pdfs for the Toronto conference on Vitamin D are here.

http://www.grassrootshealth.net/documentation

These graphs were taken from those.

[pecwae]

1. I appreciate this post and link.

The owner of a cancer support site I frequent attended that conference and her reports are quite interesting. http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/ is a good info source.

[hedgehog]

2. HOLY SHIT! Go to the link - those are some incredible numbers.

I think the breakthrough was the realization that the doses of Vitamin D people'd been checking out were way too small to make a statistical difference. it's when researchers ramped up the dosages by factors of 100 that they saw the benefits!

[Celebration]

3. also note the baseline in the study

The average baseline at the beginning of the study is considered an adequate Vitamin D level by the standards of some laboratories.

[Richard D]

4. And MS

I've known people who reversed their MS with Vitamin D intake.

[flamingdem]

5. What is the best source of calcium?

Supplements.

[BadgerKid]

6. More info (@ NIH):

http://dietary-supplements.info.nih.gov/factsheets/calcium.asp

[BuddhaGirl]

7. the NIH site posted below

says that Tums is an acceptable form of calcium for women. Most doctors would not say that. Also, magnesium and vitamin D are necessary for proper absorption, which the site does not state. Something to think about :-)

http://www.wholehealthmd.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=17E09E7CFFF640448FFB0B4FC1B7FEF0&nm=Reference+Library&type=AWHN_Supplements&mod=Supplements&mid=&id=EC3A087090FA4450B794293D73B14BC2&tier=2

[HysteryDiagnosis]

8. Many are unaware of the different forms calcium can be put into,

calcium carbonate is supposedly the worst, calcium gluconate, calcium citrate and calcium malate supposedly absorb better.