• The Importance of Vitamin D in Cancer Fighting and Other Health Issues

  Filed under Vitamins & Minerals
  May 1
  The world’s biggest problem might come to an end. It seems that the cancer fighting soon will have a winner. New research shows vitamin D might actually hold the key to fighting cancer. It’s abilities to stave off irregular cell development are just now being fully recognized and further studies are under way as we speak.

  The major biologic function of vitamin D is to maintain normal blood levels of calcium and phosphorus. By helping calcium absorption, vitamin D helps to form and keep strong bones. In addition, vitamin D works in concert with a number of other vitamins, minerals, and hormones to promote bone mineralization. Without vitamin D, bones can become thin, breakable, or misshapen.

  Vitamin D sufficiency prevents rickets in children and osteomalacia in adults, two forms of skeletal diseases that weaken bones. New research shows vitamin D could help fight cancer. When researchers took human breast cancer cells and injected them into mice, tumors began to grow. But when the mice were given vitamin D, after several weeks of treatment, the cancer tumors in the mice reduced in size by an average of more than 50 percent.

  One tumor reduced by half, and another disappeared entirely. Similar results have been achieved on colon and prostate cancer tumors in mice. Research also suggests that vitamin D may help maintain a healthy immune system and help regulate cell growth and differentiation. But the real examination will be to see if vitamin D will work the same way in people.

  The biggest source of vitamin D is sun exposure. Sunlight stimulates skin to make the vitamin. But this has its own set of problems with skin damage and skin cancer. The scientists claim that if we expose ourselves on a normal sun light, than there is no danger to damage our skin. Vitamin D may be just as important to your overall health as a good omega 3 supplement, or getting enough omega 3′s in your daily diet.

  How much vitamin D one should take daily to prevent cancer is still unknown. We get a little in our diet, almost all of it from milk or fish, but none of us get enough from our diet. We also get some in multivitamins, but it appears to us that the best thing to do is be conservative and maintain natural vitamin D blood levels year-round by receiving sunlight in the summer and supplementation in the winter.

  Even a little sun will make some vitamin D, if it is the right time of day, the right latitude, and the right season of the year. Knowing how many benefits Vitamin D provides, you might ask yourself, are you getting enough of the Vitamin and are you getting enough sunlight. So drink your milk and catch some sun – fighting cancer might be as easy as that.

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