Higher Vitamin D Intake Needed to Reduce Cancer Risk
March 3rd, 2011Via: UC San Diego:
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha have reported that markedly higher intake of vitamin D is needed to reach blood levels that can prevent or markedly cut the incidence of breast cancer and several other major diseases than had been originally thought. The findings are published February 21 in the journal Anticancer Research.
While these levels are higher than traditional intakes, they are largely in a range deemed safe for daily use in a December 2010 report from the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine.
“We found that daily intakes of vitamin D by adults in the range of 4000-8000 IU are needed to maintain blood levels of vitamin D metabolites in the range needed to reduce by about half the risk of several diseases – breast cancer, colon cancer, multiple sclerosis, and type 1 diabetes,” said Cedric Garland, DrPH, professor of family and preventive medicine at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center. “I was surprised to find that the intakes required to maintain vitamin D status for disease prevention were so high – much higher than the minimal intake of vitamin D of 400 IU/day that was needed to defeat rickets in the 20th century.”
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That just doesn’t sit right with me.
I take 1000 to 2000 per day and I get sunlight probably 6 days a week.
I can’t help but think they want us to believe and actually take that much “D” per day. Maybe there’s big money in the vitamin racket?
It reminds me of the Norwegian “Omega 3” article that said eating more Norwegian salmon allows you to absorb more omega 3, and the real fish has more of ? I’m sorry I can’t find it at the moment.
I don’t eat a lot of fish but do eat real food. Fish from the sea seems to not be the thing to eat.
I’ll try upping the dose to 4000 IU and hope I don’t have a problem. I’ll let you know.
Rather than guessing all over the place, have a Vitamin D blood test done. You may be getting enough already, or not. The blood test is the only way to really know.
Fish from the sea seems to not be the thing to eat.
HAHA.
Shoe, you may do that, but most people do not. Our ancestors use to get five-six hours of sunlight a day, most days, and they ate a much more healthful diet than we do. Now things have gotten so bad that some kids are developing rickets, a disease thought wiped out long ago.