Vitamin D Revolution

A recent article that one of my readers brought to my attention looked at vitamin D levels in infants who were fully breast-fed and who took oral vitamin D supplements. Other studies have shown that nursing mothers do not give their infants sufficient vitamin D. I've written about that as well previously. In this nice [...]

Another article showing the relationship of childhood asthma and vitamin D levels in children has just been published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. In this article, Daniel Searing, Donald Y M Leung,  and colleagues at the national Jewish Hospital in Denver looked at the relationship between vitamin D insufficiency and childhood asthma [...]

I am delighted to see a new article in the May issue of the prestigious American Journal of Clinical Nutrition which confirms advice I had been giving my patients last fall in the flu season. In this amazing article by Hiroynik Ida and others, from December 2008 through March 2009 they researchers conducted a randomized [...]

Colorectal cancer is the third most common type of cancer in men and women in the United States according to data from the American Cancer Society. A recent study published in the British Medical Journal looked at the association between people's vitamin D blood levels, their dietary intake of vitamin D and calcium, and their [...]

Research

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Dr. Bruce Hollis, Professor of Pediatrics and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Director of Pediatric Nutritional Science at the Medical University of South Carolina, and Dr. Carol Wagner just presented the results of their major study on high doses of Vitamin D during pregnancy and breastfeeding at the 14th International Workshop on Vitamin D in [...]

An article analyzing 12 clinical trials of Vitamin D supplementation for hip fracture prevention in people over 65, was recently published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.  The major finding was that fracture prevention was dependent on how much Vitamin D was taken. Higher doses meant reduction of fractures by “at least” 20% for the [...]

Researchers from the University of Colorado and National Jewish Health have discovered that asthmatics with low Vitamin D do not respond as well to steroid treatment, and have worse symptoms in general, than those with higher Vitamin D levels. Vitamin D levels, in fact, absolutely predicted how well a patient will respond to steroid asthma [...]

Delighted to see this post on ABC News! Finally the word is getting to a larger audience!  Click the arrow to start the video from ABC News