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25 Excellent reasons to take Vitamin D

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Your lack of Vitamin D in pictures via Information is Beautiful

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How much vitamin D is enough? Report sets new levels via MSNBC

The "D" List

Further reading...

The "D" List

http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/

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Vitamin D from Natural Messiah

"...lack of Vitamin D is linked with poor bone health, but new studies suggest that milder deficiency may also be linked to asthma, some cancers and diabetes."

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Vitamin D: Confounding Factors from Mark's Daily Apple

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Deconstructing Vitamin D from Mark's Daily Apple


A great read on an essential facet of our health.
Be sure to take some time to read this one.

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Vitamins A, D and K: Who Cares? from Robb Wolf

Probably you!
You just don't know it yet, so get reading!

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Could multivitamins raise breast cancer risk?
- via Reuters Health

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Vitamin D3 from Conditioning Research

The "D" List

There's been a ton of Vitamin D research of late popping up all over the net. This is just a list of interesting links not any kind of recommendation. As always especially things found online exercise common sense!

Vitamin D: It's Not Just Another Vitamin

Adventures with Vitamin D

Vitamin D and prevention of respiratory tract infections

National Institute of Health Vitamin D fact sheet

Vitamin D Deficiency and All Cancer

Vitamin D Levels and the Risk of Mortality in the General Population
data suggests that low 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels (25[OH]D) are associated with diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and cancers.

Are sunlight deprivation and influenza epidemics associated with the onset of acute leukemia?
... darkness-related vitamin D deficiency and influenza could cause successive and cooperative mutations leading to AL (acute leukemia) ...

Athletic Performance and Vitamin D.

• Vitamin D-producing ultraviolet light improves athletic performance.
  
• Physical and athletic performance peak when vitamin D levels peak and decline as levels decline.
  
• Vitamin D increases the size and number of Type II (fast twitch) muscle fibers.
  
• Vitamin D levels are directly associated with musculoskeletal performance in older individuals.
  
• In older individuals, vitamin D improves physical performance.
  
• Such 25(OH)D levels may also protect the athlete from several acute and chronic medical conditions.

Not so fun facts

• men with low vitamin D levels suffer 2.42 times more heart attacks
  
• Vitamin D-deficient women, for example, have a 253% increased risk of colon cancer.
  
• higher plasma levels of 25(OH)D are associated with a lower risk of colorectal cancer in older women
  
• women with the lowest level of vitamin D were at a 222% increased risk for developing breast cancer
  
• Men with higher levels of vitamin D have a 52% reduced incidence of prostate cancer
  
• inhibiting the synthesis of cholesterol will also inhibit the synthesis of vitamin D

John Jacob Cannel, MD, founder of the non-profit Vitamin D Counsel in the US says: "Current research indicates vitamin D deficiency plays a role in causing seventeen varieties of cancer as well as heart disease, stroke, hypertension, autoimmune disease, diabetes, depression, chronic pain, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, muscle weakness, muscle wasting, birth defects and peridontal disease.

Vitamin D Scientists’ Call to Action Statement

Testing of vitamin D levels