Vitamin D Revolution

I am very excited about the possibility of improving the health of our country and indeed the entire world by helping every person and every member of your family, to achieve normal—or even better—optimal Vitamin D levels so that all the benefits of this pro-hormone may improve your quality of life and extend your years [...]

…According to recent estimates by the American Cancer Society, breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in women in the United States. Rates of breast cancer are higher in white women after the age of 40 and higher in black women before the age of 40. Black women are more likely to [...]

Some health experts and nutritionists insist that we can get access to sufficient supplies of Vitamin D from eating food rich in Vitamin D. A plethora of press releases have alerted the world about the health implications of Vitamin D deficiency. Reporters are interpreting the findings, and interviewing doctors, nutritionists and health professionals for their [...]

How Do we Get our Vitamin D? Step One—Sun hits your skin It all begins when the skin is exposed to the sun. The UVB light in the sun interfaces with a form of cholesterol in your skin called 7-dehydrocholesterol, and this substance is synthesized into pre-vitamin D3. The pre-vitamin D3 immediately converts into Vitamin [...]

Overwhelming statistics have shown that most people who have serious diseases have Vitamin D deficiency, or were deficient in the past. Many studies have determined that Vitamin D may provide protection from illnesses ranging from the common cold to cancer. Children’s diseases like autism, asthma, and juvenile diabetes have become pervasive in the years that [...]

What is Vitamin D? The first thing to understand about Vitamin D is that it is not a vitamin. By definition, a vitamin is a substance that is essential to human health but cannot be produced by the body. Vitamin D, in its most obvious and fundamental function, is essential to the metabolism of calcium [...]

The following is a excerpt from Chapter Four of The Vitamin D Revolution: How the Power of This Amazing Vitamin Can Change Your Life written by Soram Khalsa, M.D. …According to recent estimates by the American Cancer Society, breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in women in the United States. Rates [...]

Vitamin D Terms activated vitamin D: also known as 1,25D3 or calcitriol, this form of Vitamin D is a steroid hormone. It is fat soluble and can pass through cell membranes to bind to the Vitamin D receptors. It is a very powerful steroid hormone and it regulates gene expression by being able to switch [...]