Monday, June 7, 2010

Vitamin D3: How Important Is It?

The question was posed in my last post of this series:  What is a balanced Arginine product?

A better question would be:  What does a balanced Arginine product contain?

Number One on the list would most definitely be Vitamin D3.

According to studies, Vitamin D deficiency is now recognized as an epidemic in the US and it's deficiency may be associated with Cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure and heart failure patients with CVD.  About two years ago, the Canadian Cancer Society recognized the Vitamin D deficiency problem there.  They encouraged everyone in Canada to take at least 1,000 IU's of Vitamin D every day, especially the elderly, because it had shown to lower the incidence of 18 different types of cancer by 60%!  According to Dr. Ignarro (Dr. Louis Ignarro, recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Medicine and author of the book "NO More Heart Disease"), 1,000 IU's is not enough.  I encourage you to look at the website, http://vitamindcouncil.org .  This site is not selling anything, it is simply providing information only, about the research that has been done and is being done regarding Vitamin D and it's effect on many conditions, including cancer.  You'll learn on the site that by taking 200,000 IU's of Vitamin D3 every day for 7 days, you may stop the possibility of getting the flu.  In Canada, again, they encourage the use of Vitamin D3 instead of the flu shot.  It is much safer and much more cost effective.

What about the toxicity question?  Vitamin D3 is what you get from the sun.  In fact, you get about 10,000 IU's from the sun in a very short period of time.  Vitamin D2 is synthetic, is indeed toxic, and is usually prescription Vitamin D.  So, if it's what we get from the sun, why are people deficient?  With the scare about skin cancer, our lifestyles that keep us indoors, and the use of sunscreens, is there any question?  In parts of the world, if you stayed outdoors, completely naked, for all the hours of sunlight, you still wouldn't get enough.

  Vitamin D deficiency may be associated with arthritis, chronic pain, depression, inflammatory bowel disease, obesity, PMS, as well as muscular weakness.










It's deficiency may also be assiciated with Fibromyalgia, Crohn's Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, and Auto-Immune illness!  What do you notice about these conditions?  These are conditions for which  most doctor's don't believe there is a cure.  But, if they are caused by a deficiency, and if that deficiency is rectified, then what?  Vitamin D3 will probably win a second Nobel Prize - the first one was for it's discovery and the second will be from realizing just how powerful it is!


And, finally, Vitamin D3 deficiency is also associated with Cancer!  The Susan G. Komen website contains information about Vitamin D and it's effect on Breast Cancer.  Again, http://vitamindcouncil.org has much information about this as well.  Listed here are the top 17 kinds of cancer that are affected by Vitamin D3.