Vitamin D and Cancer

Did you know that the UNITED STATES PREVENTIVE SERVICES TASK FORCE evaluated 137 published studies about vitamin D and concluded that low dose vitamin D supplementation of 400 IU/day has NO benefit in preventing fractures or cancer.

The task force reviewed the published data and came to the conclusion that women should not take low doses of vitamin D to prevent fracture or for any other benefit.On the surface it sounds like one is wasting his or her money on vitamin D supplement.

Sometimes what seems obvious is hidden in the shadows so to speak. The task force listed above is correct .............AS FAR AS IT GOES. By that I mean they are right in that LOW DOSE 400 IU of vitamin D isn't going to have any measurable effect on peoples lives, especially on preventing cancer in women.

On the other hand when you bump that supplementation up to 4500 IU of vitamin D daily, it has been shown to reduce the incidence of cancer by 51%.

The same task force accurately stated that 1000 mg a day of a calcium supplement  PLUS 400 IU of vitamin D does NOT prevent bone fractures.

Again IF you change the parameters and include supplementation of vitamin K and magnesium along with the maintenance of a youthful hormone balance and resistance exercises to that calcium, vitamin D program the outcome changes dramatically.

For more detailed information, look up Life Extension's Magazine's article in the May 2013 issue entitled "As We See It".

I believe our bodies are more than the sum of its parts. You must take a comprehensive BALANCED APPROACH TO NUTRITION, and exercise.

If you google websites from Dr. Mercola as an example on vitamin D3 you will find a wealth of information and documentation indicating you are probably NOT getting enough Vitamin D3 or Magnesium, Vitamin K etc. and you are NOT exercising enough.

BELOW are two examples of Dr. Mercola's advice on cancer prevention and vitamin D3

Dan

http://vitamind.mercola.com/

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/05/12/vitamin-d-may-prevent-breast-cancer.aspx

I Corinthians 12: 12-25

¹² For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.

¹³ For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

¹⁴ For the body is not one member, but many.

¹⁵ If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

¹⁶ And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

¹⁷ If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?

¹⁸ But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.

¹⁹ And if they were all one member, where were the body?

²⁰ But now are they many members, yet but one body.

²¹ And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

²² Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:

²³ And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.

²⁴ For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked:

²⁵ That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.