Vitamin D Reduces Hypertension & Cancer June 19, 2008
Posted by in : Uncategorized , add a commentA recent 2008, study, of 7500 mixed-racial subjects, demonstrated an inverse relationship in nonhypertensive white persons in the United States between serum Vitamin D concentrations and systolic blood pressure (SBP) levels. Concentrations of serum vitamin D levels greater than 80 nmol/L decreased the age-related increase in SBP by 20% compare with participants that had serum vitamin D levels less than 50 nmol/L. Conversely Only 8% of the African-Americans in the study had vitamin D concentrations greater than 80 nmol/L.
The number of recent vitamin D studies have clearly demonstrated that the FDA standards are too low and as a result vitamin D deficiency is widespread. Furthermore, several recent studies have shown that women with breast cancer have low levels of vitamin D, suggesting that the risk of breast cancer increases in those women with deficient serum levels of vitamin D. It would seem appropriate to try and increase serum vitamin D levels as a part of the treatment protocol for cancer..
According to Robert Jay Rowen, MD “Almost everyone needs to take a daily dose of 5000 IU per day. If your levels are substantially below 75 nmol.L, then take 10,000 IU daily until your levels move into the sufficient range.”
The important thing is to get your vitamin D levels checked so you know exactly what your status is.
Am J Clin Nutr. 2008 Jan;87(1):136-41 Optimal vitamin D status attenuates the age-associated increase in systolic blood pressure in white Americans: results from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Judd SE, Nanes MS, Zieglefr TR,, Wilson PW, Tangpricha V .
