Low Vitamin D Levels Impair HCV Response to Interferon
Low Vitamin D Levels Impair HCV Response to Interferon NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection have lower serum levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D than healthy individuals, and as their vitamin D level falls, so does the likelihood of a sustained virologic response to interferon and ribavirin, new research shows. [...]
Eradicate Breast Cancer | Breast Cancer | Eradicate Breast Cancer With Vitamin D | Vitamin D
Eradicate Breast Cancer | Breast Cancer | Eradicate Breast Cancer With Vitamin D | Vitamin D Breast cancer is a disease so directly related to vitamin D deficiency that a woman’s risk of contracting the disease can be ‘virtually eradicated’ by elevating her vitamin D status to what vitamin D scientists consider to be natural [...]
Vitamin D for strong bones
Most patients with vitamin D deficiency were found to have a history of fragile bones that exposed them to the risk of osteopororis, according to a new study, conducted by US physicians. The bone disease not only affected adults, but also children. Vitamin D insufficiency may also contribute to low bone mass or even aggravate [...]
Calcium helps cut cholesterol during weight loss
Weight Loss :: Calcium helps cut cholesterol during weight loss Getting enough calcium and vitamin D while reducing calorie intake can increase the beneficial effects of weight loss on cholesterol levels adding to the number of mechanisms by which calcium can benefit weight loss on blood fats. Overweight or obese women who took calcium and [...]
Vitamin D supplements may offer cheap and effective immune system boost against TB
Vitamin D :: Vitamin D supplements may offer cheap and effective immune system boost against TB Scientists have shown that a single 2.5mg dose of vitamin D may be enough to boost the immune system to fight against tuberculosis (TB) and similar bacteria for at least 6 weeks. Their findings came from a study that [...]
Vitamin D reduces cancer risk
Vitamin D :: Vitamin D reduces cancer risk Most Americans and others are not taking enough vitamin D, a fact that may put them at significant risk for developing cancer, according to a landmark study conducted by Creighton University School of Medicine. The four-year, randomized study followed 1,179 healthy, postmenopausal women from rural eastern Nebraska.* [...]
Vitamin D or Boniva, ibandronate reduces bone loss
Vitamin D :: Vitamin D or Boniva, ibandronate reduces bone loss It appears that alcohol-induced bone loss resulting from excessive binge-alcohol drinking can be prevented by vitamin D or the anti-osteoporosis drug Boniva? (ibandronate), a Loyola University Health System study shows. ?Repetitive binge-alcohol drinking reduces bone mass, which is detrimental to youngsters and young adults, [...]
Vitamin D lowers multiple sclerosis risk
Vitamin D :: Vitamin D lowers multiple sclerosis risk New research suggests that having higher circulating levels of vitamin D is associated with a reduced risk for multiple sclerosis, although this relationship was not seen for black and Hispanic individuals, according to a study in the Dec. 20 issue of JAMA. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is [...]
Vitamin D intake halves cancer risk
Vitamin D :: Vitamin D intake halves cancer risk Vitamin D – known to maintain normal blood levels of calcium and phosphorus – may also help in reducing cancer risk, a new study has found. According to cancer prevention specialists at the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Medical Center, [...]
