FACT: Vitamin D PREVENTS most cancers and TREATS some cancers.
This fact has been known for several years (as of Feb 2012).
See Overview Cancer and vitamin D
Recently the researchers have been trying to get a consensus as to HOW vitamin D does this.
Review of possible ways that vitamin D fights cancer
No consensus yet, but candidate methods include:
- arrest of growth
- kill tumour cells
- enhancing DNA repair
- antioxidant protection
- improving immune system
A high percentage of all cancer deaths are prevented by a high enough level of vitamin D in your bloodstream
- CLICK HERE for larger image and more charts of disease incidence
Calcium helps vitamin D fight Cancer:
Calcium aids Vitamin D in fighting some Cancer file
Overview Cancer and vitamin D contains the following chart
Vitamin D does not PREVENT Cancer until the blood level is > 40 nanograms/ml
Appears that vitamin D level must be higher yet to TREAT Cancers.
The many items on Vitamin D and Cancer at VitaminDWiki include:
- Breast - 57 items
- Colon - 43 items
- Prostate 29 items
- Pancreatic 23 items
- Lung 9 items
- After Cancer 22 items
- Melanoma 26 items
- General Cancer and others 87 items
- Overviews of Cancers by Vitamin D Council
See also VitaminDWiki
- Vitamin D also TREATS
- All items in category TREATMENT 33 as of Feb 2012, some of which concern Cancer
- Overview Evidence for vitamin D
- Summary of Vitamin D trials - Grant Jan 2012
- How you might double the benefit of your vitamin D
- No – 10 minutes per day of sun-UVB is NOT enough
- Many reasons why vitamin D deficiency has become epidemic in past 30-40 years
- Free, instant test to see if you are very vitamin D deficient - it is not quantitative
- All items in Vitamin D Blog
- Home Page
- List of categories of vitamin D information - with # of items in each
- Low cost and many forms of vitamin D
- Vitamin D 101