Vitamin D, Cancer Risk
Vitamin D and Reducing Cancer Risk
Apr/07/11 Filed in: Health
It now appears that it is necessary to take a lot more than the recommended daily allowance to reduce cancer with vitamin D. Current RDA is 400 IU but,
"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."
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110222140546.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110222140546.htm
Dr. Kip Rode