Cancers, heart disease, inflammations, managing pain, and yes, even your very bones are all controlled by this common
substance..."Vitamin D - Nature's "Quiet Treasure" "This is the most important vitamin "re-discovered"
within the last year..."
Chances are You're suffering from a Vitamin D deficiency.
This
isn't scare mongering, hype or marketing puffery. It's the plain, unvarnished truth. According to the prestigious
New England Journal of Medicine: "Vitamin D Deficiency is Pandemic."
I can practically hear your
next question: "So what?"
Well, there are an awful lot of reasons why you should be concerned - all having
to do with your health. If you think Vitamin D only affects your bones, think again. In recent years medical investigators
have re-opened research into this "common" vitamin - and have come away with a new found respect for its wide ranging
health and healing properties.
Their overwhelming consensus? Vitamin D supplementation is necessary. And lots of it!
Vitamin D is one of the few vitamins the body can actually manufacture itself, through a complex process involving sunlight.
But this isn't enough. In fact, in a recent study, 83% of people in Saudi Arabia were found to be Vitamin D deficient!
(And you really can't find a sunnier place than Saudi Arabia!)
I constantly stress the need for proper
nutrition and healthy, holistic living. This is especially important in the "modern" environment we now live in
- an environment filled with toxins, chemical residues, and rogue hormones - a virtual cornucopia of health damaging substances.
One of the most important (and easiest ways) I've found is supplementing with Vitamin D - an extremely significant approach
for maintaining good and vibrant health.
If You're Human, You're At Risk
Men, women,
children - all are equally affected. Vitamin D deficiency doesn't discriminate. It's affecting the entire population
- regardless of skin color, gender or age.
The Mayo Clinic reported that "... overall 93% of 150 schoolchildren
and adults" were deficient in Vitamin D, this in a Minnesota-based study. This is truly a pandemic of staggering proportions.
But it also begs the question...
Why Are We So Deficient in Vitamin D?
1. Lack of sunlight
2. Dietary deficiency
3. Farming practices
The fact is, almost no one can get enough Vitamin D just through
sunlight and diet anymore.
FDA Recommended Dosage a Joke for most people
The daily recommended
dosage (RDA) of Vitamin D is set at 400 IU (international units). Taking this amount of Vitamin D guarantees you one thing:
Deficiency. This level of Vitamin D is the absolute minimum the body needs in order to avoid catastrophic health problems.
It's starving our nutritional needs, giving our bodies the barest amount necessary to function without falling apart.
For me, this isn't health - it's disease just waiting to happen.
Vitamin D Is Safe
Many
people confuse Vitamin D with Vitamin A. That's normal, because the two are usually lumped together when buying supplements.
While we do need both vitamins in maintaining good health, Vitamin D doesn't have the toxicity of Vitamin A when taken
in larger dosages.
The fear of over-supplementing with Vitamin D is a myth - and has been largely debunked by independent
research. (Don't go running to Big Pharma for these studies. The last thing they want you doing is taking control of your
own health. Healthy people don't need expensive drugs, and that's bad for business.)
The Science
of Vitamin D
A careful review of the scientific literature is just now scratching the surface of the enormous
importance of Vitamin D, revealed in one blockbuster study after another.
Here's just a sample
of serious health issues people face with chronic Vitamin D deficiency:
1. Cancers
- increased risk and
severity of 11 types of cancer, including melanomas. Vitamin D has been shown to make cancers cells lose their blood supply
and thus ability to expand. It also strikingly inhibits cell growth, inducing what's called 'cell apoptosis' (inability
to divide) in breast cancer, prostate cancer and osteosarcoma.
2. Inflammation of the body- such as
lupus, rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease like Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis.
3.
Heart disease - increased risk of both heart attacks and strokes.
4. Pain issues- everything
from joint pains, back aches, headaches... even those fleeting phantom pains cropping up seemingly out of nowhere. Vitamin
D was recently discovered to inhibit NF-kappaB (a major promoter of inflammation).
Weak brittle bones - especially dangerous
for women and the elderly.
CAUTION! Not All Vitamin D The Same
There
is more than one version of Vitamin D. The biologically active form is known as D3 or cholecalciferol. (How's that for
a tongue twister!) The terms "Vitamin D" and "D3" can be used interchangeably. Many inferior supplements
contain a cheaper D2 version. But in the human body this D2 is inactive and must be first converted into D3 before it has
any effects on health. This is a largely wasteful process - especially when the active D3 is so readily available.
Recommended
Dosages
I highly recommend taking 1000 to 5000 IU (International Units) of Vitamin D3 per day. But please be
aware, capsules or pills with this level of high quality Vitamin D3 are exceedingly difficult to find. Most formulations
come in dosages of 400 IU, and a few can even be found at 1000 IU. While taking 5 to 12 capsules a day is of course doable,
it isn't very feasible or economical.
Natural Vitamin D3 - 1000 and 5000 IU Capsules
Saylor
Medical offers an all natural Vitamin D3 capsule with a full 1000 or 5000 IU dose.
This vitamin is from Thorne
Research. They make products exclusively for physicians.
Many products on the market have hidden preservatives
but these products from Throne contain pure Vitamin D3 with no preservatives.
Just one capsule a day, and you'll
be certain of meeting your body's requirements for this essential nutrient. No guesswork, no hassles, no counting out
multiple pills.
Plus... here's something that's bound to make you smile: Not only will you be getting the amazing
health benefits Vitamin D has to offer, and not only will you be getting it in a convenient, easy to swallow capsule...it's
not going to cost you much at all!
D-1000 90 vegetarian capsules- a 3 month supply
$8.75 less than 10 cents a day
D-5000 60 vegetarian capsule - a 2 month
supply $13.50 less than 23 cents a day
I personally take 5000IU a
day.
