Health Buzz: Vitamin Pills and Cancer Prevention and Other Health News
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buss off the pill (vitamins)
Years ago I toke boys scouts to camp in Mt. and they had a pill they sold in col. called buss of was a vitamins . What one B?
Vitamin D Does Help Prevent and Treat Cancer
Vitamin D does prevent cancer, particularly if taken in high doses. This reporter didn't do the research on Vitamin D. The Creighton University Study, using a higher dose of 1,100 iu daily, reduced the incidence of cancer in a large group of older white women by 70%. It has shown particular efficacy in reducing the rates of colon cancer. It is a useful adjunct in cancer treatment. Do another story! Here are the details:
Vitamin D3 is an important component of the immune system that is required by every cell. Without Vitamin D, immature cells will not differentiate into a mature cell, which suggests one reason Vitamin D plays such a broad role in maintaining overall health. Taken at high levels (2,000 to 4,000 iu per day) Vitamin D3 switches on over 300 important genes, reduces symptoms of autoimmune diseases like high blood pressure, diabetes type II, rheumatoid arthritis, congestive heart failure, multiple sclerosis, gum disease, and, pertinent to this article, it drastically reduces the incidence of cancers. It also reduces the rate if infection (it is an antiinflammatory) including colds and the flu. It helps fight tuberculosis, and, reduces the incidence of cesarian sections, not to mention its time-honored role in reducing rickets and osteoporosis.
Most academic researchers recommend a dosage of 2,000 to 4,000 iu daily, based on the amount the body actually utilizes. An older individual should take at least 5,000 iu as older skin won't make as much Vitamin D and an older gut won't absorb it as well (see Vieth, et al.). You can make up missed doses; if you miss a dose, double up your dose the next day. This hormone is created when sun strikes your skin, but few individuals get much sun exposure in our society. Dark-skinned individuals have natural sunscreen that further limits their exposure. African-Americans or anyone else with dark skin, and, anyone who uses sunscreen extensively will reduce their statistically higher rates of auto-immune diseases and cancers by taking 4,000 iu daily.
For good health, everyone should consider taking at least 2,000 iu each and every day for the rest of one's life. If you do not have calcium in your diet from dairy or some other source, you should consider taking a calcium supplement also. Magnesium and zinc levels are also an issue.
You can buy Vitamin D3 cheap at Walmart or on the Internet (Amazon.com = Vitamin D3 2000).
vitamins
Who funded the study?
antioxidants
Funny, seems everything comes out now how we should suspect that vitamins will kill us or rip us off or whatever!!!! everyone go to Prisonplanet.com..while you can still do it!!!
It's the SOUP --not the individual agent
Isolated nutrients fail, because they lack the precursor nutrients that support the active agents. For example, Beta-carotene needs the other caratoids to be effective.
When compounded supplements provided a synergistic benefit, but only when taken with natural foods those compounds are rich in. Eat a wide variety of nutrient rich foods along with supplements.
Green tea is good. Garlic is good. Ginger is good. Astrugalus is good. Reishi is good. etc., but these and other touted healthy foods are most effective when taken together and less so when taken in isolation.
Make soups and salads with as many nutrient rich ingredients as you can, and take supplements too! It's the soup, not the isolated agents, that offers the greatest protection.
Antioxidants
The problem with Antioxidant is no evidence yet so support the view that they can have any beneficial effect. Even worse there is now reason to believe that Antioxidants from food can accumulate in mitochondria( the place where Oxygen radicals formed ) to prevent oxidative damage.
Antioxidant theory is myth
Antioxidants
The problem with Antioxidant is no evidence yet so support the view that they can have any beneficial effect. Even worse there is now reason to believe that Antioxidants from food can accumulate in mitochondria( the place where Oxygen radicals formed ) to prevent oxidative damage.
Antioxidant theory is myth
all lies as usual from the medical aholes
lies!!!!!!!!!!!!!
VITAMINS AND FDA TESTS
The rush to disprove the health benefits of vitamins while the general public takes supplements in part because of the individual discernable benefits shows how faulty such studies as this one are. To simply feed participants vitamins without any associated changes in lifestyle defeats any truly scientific study. It effectively negates any attempt at answering the question of how we can improve health and attempts to take off the table non-professionals who might self-dispense their own virtually harmless vitamins.
