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Researchers at the International Heart Institute of Montana (IHI), in combination with Saint Patrick Hospital, are trying to determine if supplemental vitamin D in heart failure patients will improve heart function and quality of life, as well as markers of health outcomes.

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Updated summary Vitamin D and colorectal cancer We have recently reviewed all the research on colorectal cancer and vitamin D to date and written a new summary. Find out if and how vitamin D plays a role in the prevention and treament of colorectal cancer. Read more→ Visual blog: Does latitude relate to colorectal cancer mortality?
January 27, 2014 -- Jeff Nicklas In our third blog on world incidence of various diseases, we explore the potential relationship between latitude and colorectal cancer prognosis. Continue reading → (open access) Dr. Cannell joins the Dr. Don Show
January 26, 2014 -- Vitamin D Council Vitamin D Council’s Executive Director Dr. John Cannell was a guest on the Dr. Don Show this past Monday, January 20th, 2014. Have a listen to his full segment here. New study on vitamin D levels and hospital mortality
January 24, 2014 -- John Cannell, MD Dr. Cannell discusses the results from a recent study that looked at the mortality rates of hospitalized patients at different vitamin D levels. Continue reading → (membership required) Member spotlight: Mary Pittaway on public health, bone health, and the Special Olympics
January 23, 2014 -- Vitamin D Council This month we’re featuring member Mary Pittaway. Mary has been actively involved in health screenings for her community to promote bone health. Continue reading → (open access) Vitamin D supplementation increases adiponectin levels in obese children
January 22, 2014 -- Jeff Nicklas A new study out of Italy has found that vitamin D supplementation increases adiponectin levels in pediatric obesity. Continue reading → (membership required) Vitamin D may slow disease onset and progression in early stage multiple sclerosis
January 21, 2014 -- Brant Cebulla New research published in JAMA Neurology suggests higher vitamin D levels in early stage multiple sclerosis may slow disease onset and progression. Continue reading → (membership required) New research suggests vitamin D2 could lead to higher muscle damage after weight lifting
January 27, 2014 Results from a new study show that vitamin D2 may not be beneficial to muscle health in athletes. Continue reading → New Canadian study aims to find right vitamin D dose for strong bones
January 23, 2014 Researchers are currently seeking participants for a new trial in hopes to determine how much vitamin D is enough to build and maintain healthy bones. Continue reading → EFSA approves vitamin D-enriched yeast in bread products
January 22, 2014 Recently, The European Food Safety Authority issued a positive opinion on the safety of UV-treated baking yeast. Continue reading → New study in Scotland aims to determine the effects of vitamin D vs UVB on the immune system
January 21, 2014 Researchers out of Scotland are launching a new study aimed at improving immune function and health for those living in Scotland. Continue reading →



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I actually know a person who's fibromalaysia went away with vitamin D. It was years ago. If you wait for conventional medicine to treat your medical conditions you will be disappointed. Today, you need to read and understand every thing as the new studies come out.
BB



VITAMIN D NEWS ROOM New trial: Vitamin D helps alleviate pain in those with fibromyalgia
January 20, 2014 Researchers out of Austria have found that vitamin D supplementation may lessen pain in patients with fibromyalgia. Continue reading → Do vitamin D deficient athletes have smaller hearts?
January 15, 2014 Researchers in a new study have found that severely vitamin D deficient athletes may have smaller hearts compared to athletes sufficient in vitamin D. Continue reading →
2013 was an exciting year for vitamin D. Below, we've highlighted some of the top blogs from this past year. These include the most read blogs, the blogs with the most discussion, and some of our favorites. 

So, take a moment and look at some of the topics we covered in 2013. Top 5 most read blogs Dr. Cannell on vitamin K2
November 27, 2013 -- John Cannell, MD If only vitamin K1 comes from dietary sources, how does the body get necessary vitamin K2? Continue reading → (open access) How do we know how much vitamin D you make?
May 27, 2013 -- Brant Cebulla It’s often cited that the human body can make 10,000 to 25,000 IU of vitamin D, maybe more, in a single session of full body sun exposure. How do we know that? Continue reading → (open access) Is there a link between vitamin D and female hair loss?
April 29, 2013 -- John Cannell, MD Telogen effluvium and female pattern hair loss is hair loss that occurs in up to 30% of young women. Is vitamin D involved? Continue reading → (membership required) RCT: High-dose vitamin D3 safe during pregnancy
April 22, 2013 -- Kate Saley A new randomized controlled trial shows once again, high-dose vitamin D during pregnancy is safe and effective at raising vitamin D blood levels for mother and newborn child. Continue reading → (membership required) Sun exposure: Is just a little bit enough?
January 16, 2013 -- John Cannell, MD Some experts opine that brief sun exposure will supply all the vitamin D that one needs. However, there has never been a study of how much vitamin D such exposure generates. Continue reading → (open access) Top 5 most discussed blogs A look at the recent Lancet review study
December 6, 2013 -- Brant Cebulla A new study has come out in the journal the Lancet, and we have received many emails requesting that we address it. In this blog, we explain the design of the study and its argument. Continue reading → (open access) Sunlight and vitamin D, do they trigger rosacea?
July 23, 2013 -- John Cannell, MD We know sunlight and sunburn makes rosacea worse, so does supplemental vitamin D do the same? Continue reading → (open access) New study shows link between sun exposure and breast density
July 12, 2013 -- Brant Cebulla New research out of Hong Kong suggests that sunlight across the lifespan may decrease the risk of breast cancer. Continue reading → (membership required) Food allergy, a tale of two studies
April 1, 2013 -- John Cannell, MD The literature on vitamin D and food allergy is conflicting with some studies implying vitamin D protects against food allergy and some studies implying it causes it. Continue reading → (membership required) Inflammation, statins, and cardiovascular disease: Is D the missing link?
February 19, 2013 -- John Cannell, MD Researchers aimed to study two statin drugs which both help lower cholesterol. One statin is more effective in decreasing inflammation. Continue reading → (open access) Staff picks: Some of the staff's favorite articles A visual look at new worldwide multiple sclerosis prevalence data
October 23, 2013 -- Jeff Nicklas The Multiple Sclerosis International Federation has recently released new data on worldwide multiple sclerosis prevalence, services and more. Continue reading → (open access) An overview on current evidence on vitamin D and brain disorders
September 24, 2013 -- Rebecca Oshiro Researchers argue there is convincing evidence vitamin D deficiency negatively impacts brain development in the fetus and exacerbates the progression of brain disorders in adults. Continue reading → (open access) Vitamin D levels in children around the world
June 13, 2013 -- Tom Weishaar In the last year there have been a number of studies looking at vitamin D levels in children in various locations around the world. Tom Weishaar compares and contrasts the results. Continue reading → (open access) Case series: Vitamin D combination therapy for traumatic brain injury
May 22, 2013 -- Kate Saley Recently, researchers treated traumatic brain injury patients with combination vitamin D3, progesterone, omega-3 fatty acids, and glutamine. Continue reading → (membership required) Why do we call vitamin D, vitamin D?
February 13, 2013 -- Brant Cebulla What is vitamin D? While the question would seem to call for a simple answer, the query hasn’t always prompted as straight forward a response as one might expect. Continue reading → (membership required) Like Tweet Forward to Friend Copyright © 2014 The Vitamin D Council, All rights reserved.


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So....for the new year you decided I need to:
Gain weight!
Make my immune system less effective so I can get sicker easier!
Keep the toxins that are in our environment and make sure I do not have the necessary vitamins for the above reason!
Keep my allergies and remain attached to my asthma symptoms! You like them.
Have a not great attitude about life.
Deal with occasional constipation!

Of course not. You don't want any of those things. But there is one thing you could do that would be help eliminate those problems. You would succeed in losing weight, have less sickness, make a bunch of vitamins in your gut naturally, never be constipated again, have much better control of allergies and asthma and at the same time enjoy life more.
What is that one thing? Eat fermented foods. Foods that you make are much more potent than a so called probiotic food over the counter like commercial yogurt. A good probiotic pill with billions of colonies will sort of work, if taken on a empty stomach and not eating for 20 to 30 minutes. I will say again .....sort of work. Fermented sauer kraut has ten TRILLION colonies in a few ounces!
Memory. Memory works best when you have a emotion along with it. That is why we recall so vividly major events in our lives. We had a strong emotion associated with that memory. So, I said things a little differently than most people would writing on a subject such as above. It was done to make what I said something that you will more easily recall.
BB

VITAMIN D COUNCIL MEMBERS BLOG Endometriosis and vitamin D: Is there a link?
January 11, 2014 -- John Cannell, MD Dr. Cannell reviews past and current research and discusses what sort of role vitamin D might play in endometriosis. Continue reading → (membership required) New study finds vitamin D supplementation does not enhance absorption of the drug Protelos
January 10, 2014 -- Jeff Nicklas Strontium shares many similarities with calcium. Therefore, does vitamin D status also influence the absorption of the drug strontium ranelate? Continue reading → (membership required) New meta-analysis: Vitamin D supplementation of no concern in mild primary hyperparathyroidism
January 9, 2014 -- Brant Cebulla A new meta-analysis is out that says vitamin D supplementation is an okay measure to take in primary hyperparathyroidism. Continue reading → (membership required) New study: Does chemotherapy have an effect on vitamin D levels?
January 7, 2014 -- Brant Cebulla Research suggests patients with acute myeloid leukemia and acute lymphoblastic leukemia have lower vitamin D levels during or after chemotherapy compared to before treatment. Continue reading → (membership required) Become a member today!
VITAMIN D NEWS ROOM New study shows refugees in Canada have high rates of vitamin D deficiency
January 11, 2014 Researchers recently wanted to determine the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency among refugees from all over the world who immigrated to Canada. Continue reading → Vitamin D deficiency tied to inability to complete daily tasks in senior home setting
January 10, 2014 New research from Hawaii has found that vitamin D deficiency is linked to inability to complete daily tasks in the senior home setting. Continue reading → New military study underway looking to prevent stress fractures
January 9, 2014 A team of researchers are conducting a study to determine if increased vitamin D and calcium intake can improve bone health in military personnel. Continue reading →

VITAMIN D COUNCIL MEMBERS BLOG A look at the inconsistencies in research of vitamin D and inflammation
January 3, 2014 -- John Cannell, MD Dr. Cannell examines a review of research on vitamin D and inflammation and discusses what criteria makes for successful clinical trials. Continue reading → (membership required) New RCT: Vitamin D beneficial for increasing muscle fiber size
January 2, 2014 -- John Cannell, MD A recent trial found vitamin D supplementation in elderly women increases muscle fiber size and increases vitamin D receptor concentration. Continue reading → (membership required) Prostate cancer incidence influenced by UV, says new research
December 27, 2013 -- Jeff Nicklas New research published in the journal Cancer has found that UV affects prostate cancer incidence in the United States, with lower incidence in areas with greater amounts of UV. Continue reading → (membership required) Vitamin D deficiency is associated with defeat in fantastical stories
December 25, 2013 -- Brant Cebulla Joseph A Hopkinson and Dr Nicholas S Hopkinson out of London, UK, have found that vitamin D sufficiency is associated with victory over evil in fantastical situations. Continue reading → (open access) Vitamin D supplementation reduces mortality if trial is long enough, says new review
December 24, 2013 -- Brant Cebulla A new meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials has found that vitamin D supplementation reduces mortality, specifically over the long run, as opposed to the short run. Continue reading → (membership required) Become a member today!
VITAMIN D NEWS ROOM New study finds pregnant women in Beijing deficient in vitamin D
January 6, 2014 A recent study out of China has found that pregnant women in Beijing are at high risk for vitamin D deficiency. Continue reading → New study finds high vitamin D levels in mothers leads to stronger muscles in offspring
January 3, 2014 New research out of London has found an association between vitamin D status in mothers during pregnancy and muscle strength in their children. Continue reading → Study in Jordan: Newborns are severely deficient in vitamin D
January 2, 2014 A new study out of Amman, Jordan, has found that most newborns in the region are deficient in vitamin D. Continue reading → New study aims to help Canadian flood victims while answering questions on nutrition and stress
December 30, 2013 Researchers out of Calgary are providing vitamins to flood victims to see if they help with post-traumatic stress. Continue reading → Vitamin D conference taking place in Abu Dhabi in March
December 26, 2013 The 3rd International Conference on Vitamin D Deficiency and Its Clinical Implications is set to take place March 21st and 22nd, 2014, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Continue reading →


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If you have read this blog for long you will know that I recommend 1k per 25 lbs. This is the dose recommended for children. We know adults do not absorb nutrients as well so this makes sense to me as a dose for everyone. VDC recommends 5 k to adults. Then if you read their fine print they say 35 iu per lb acknowledging that weight is important in determining the proper dose. Their recommendation is very close to what I recommend.
What are they trying to do. They are trying to make it all unintimidating and simple. Certainly 5 k a day does that. What am I trying to do. I am trying to optimize my vitamin D level and believe this can only be done if weight is taken into consideration. Now a little story about me and it applies to you also. It is all about optimization and dosing.
I have been taking "varying" doses of vitamin D since 2004 in attempt to lean by experience and optimize too. From time to time I have stopped vitamin D and had a blood level drawn. I drew the blood levels when I started to feel significant pain. I had a significant pain increase when my blood level was 75ng. ( Yes Virginia, vitamin D is a significant ant inflammatory and therefore pain reliever. It is so slow on you may not notice the improvement until you try going without it. All of a sudden you hurt badly. Do you suppose it has something do with running out of vitamin D a few days ago. You betcha! It is nice to keep a extra bottle on hand). I digress. My optimization means, to me, about a level of 90 ng. I seemed to end up with a 90 when taking 10 to 9 k the last few years. But, in the last few years I have stopped my vitamin D a few times to see what my pain level was and in the process depleted my fat stores of the vitamin.
So I was taking 9k and I had a blood level of 120ng. To much but not dangerous. Toxicity occurs at something over 200 ng. I had been taking that dose without reducing it for easily two years. So I cut my dose down to 5 k. ( Note: as your blood level goes up it takes more vitamin D to achieve the same movement upward that occurs when your blood level is low. What I mean is if your blood level is 30 typically your blood level will go to 40 with a 1k increase in vitamin D a day. At a blood level of 90ng a 1000 increase in vitamin D will bring your blood level up 2ng. So it depends).
I checked my blood level again six months later and my blood level was now 102 ng. I was not alarmed, but do not believe that level is needed so I have now cut my dose down to a tad over 4k a day. I expect that it will drop into the low 90's. Right where I want it to be. I can test in three months and find out. Recall that it takes 3 months for your level to stabilize after changing your dose assuming you take the same amount every day. So what happened here. Recall that vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin. It took awhile to get into the fat and fully saturate it. At that point, once saturated, you blood level will rise because there is no other place for it to go....
How does this work. Your body is made up of three compartments that can absorb a fat soluble vitamin. These compartments are the blood, the cells of the body and the fat of the body. Vitamin D most easily goes into the blood then the cells from the blood and lastly a little goes into the fat and is stored there. Just like any storage place, once it is full the spillage will be outside. Outside in this case will be represented by the cells and blood with a corresponding increase in blood level.
Bottom line. You need to test and you need to test at least once a year. Also if your level is like mine it will take a significant cut in vitamin D to bring it back into the proper range. In my case a cut of 1000 iu when I was taking 9 k a day would have ended up with a drop of perhaps only one or two ng!
I do not know of anything bad that will happen with a level of 120 or even more, but why take more than is needed or recommended by anyone. As to the last statement, there are Doctors that recommend up to 100 ng for those who are ill or vulnerable. At my age, almost 74, I would like to continue to do well. Stay tuned.
BB
Don't forget vitamin D utilizes magnesium so you need to supplement that also. Vitamin K2 directs calcium to the proper place ( bones and not the heart) and helps with the proper utilization of vitamin D. Calcium lining the coronary arteries is the leading indicator of a pending heart attack. Not cholesterol. Suppose those recommending statins will change to vitamin k? Not likely! And as a final reminder vitamin k will change the effectiveness of those on blood thinners such as Coumadin. Don't take vitamin k in such a case without the Doctors monitoring.