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Dr Cannell,
Thank you for courageously being “the voice of reason” regarding treatment of Vitamin D deficiency. I truly appreciate your efforts.
I hope you never tire of fighting the good fight….
To Sunny Days,
Rita
This article and links to several similar items are in VitaminDWiki
http://www.vitamindwiki.com/tiki-index.php?page_id=3596
Dr. Cannell, I just heard of a study on Fox News that said cancer deaths are down 20% since peak in 1991. Can you tell us how much higher vitamin D usage is up since 1991? They didn’t mention any correlation… Hmmmm!
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-01/acs-cmd011413.php
jkwray1@cox.net,
Vitamin D levels have actually dropped a little since the early 90s I believe, mostly due to our ever-increasing shift from outdoor jobs to indoor jobs.
As to why there’s been a 20% drop in deaths due to cancer, without knowing much on the subject, I would guess it’s because treatment of people with cancer is improving.
Thanks for sharing the article,
Brant
Off topic from Dr. Cannell’s posted blog; but inline with the topic of cancer raised by jkwray1@cox.net:
Vitamin D in combination cancer treatment: “In summary, calcitriol has shown potential in enhancing the antitumor activities of a variety of cytotoxic or differentiating agents. The combination treatment studies with calcitriol do provide evidence and support for the continued study of calcitriol in cancer chemotherapies.”
http://www.jcancer.org/v01p0101.htm
Dr. Cannell, I agree with you totally. Ibelieve that enough has been learned about vitamin d deficiency, and it’s effect on all aspects of human health, there should be no delay in educating the general population about the need to test for vitamin d; and then to either supplement with D3, get back into the sun, or use a proper tanning lamp.
There is an out-cry to lower health costs; but then some of the politicians are attempting to ban over-the -counter supplements such as vitamin D3. It’s time to get real!
JM
Couldn’t agree more Dr. Cannell…there is not a moment to lose for all populations to get tested and get their Vit D levels up. I had severe Laryngopharyngeal Reflux and no medication or surgery worked to relieve me from severe excruciating pain of acid vapor burning through my throat nerves. In fact I got 10x worse on medications and surgery. I then developed incontinence and severe pain of the shoulders and joints. My Drs cut me lose and told me there was nothing more they could do for me. In desperation I went on the internet to do reserach. I knew my UES spinchter wasn’t closing off the sphincter in my upper esophogus through my own self study. No Dr explained anything to me. Up popped on the internet a few articles on Vitamin D and muscles strength. The rest is history for me. I have slowly gotten better the higher my D levels go. I was saved by this simple, inexpensive hormone, from a horrible deblitating slow death from LPR. The incontinence disappeared and the shoulder joint pain went away. I’m a firm believer that what is missing from a Dr’s medicine bag is knowledge of the critical importance of Vitamin D in all aspects of health at the right levels. On a side note, I avoided the sun for 40 years. In the early ’70 we were all scared to death by the media on the dangers of the sun. What a big mistake I made avoiding the sun for 4 decades. I can only hope that I recover fully with time. And as one more example of my putting my own expermentation into “practice” with my family, my husband’s mother, who is 87, went into ER last Fall 2011 and was so weak and unable to eat. The Dr asked her in front of her grown sons why she even bothered to come into the ER, that she is dying and should just go home and die. My husband and his brothers where stunned. I told my husband to get his mother off as many medications as was possible and to put her on Vitamin D. She has slowly recovered and walks with no walker now and is no where “dying”. Her once balding head is full of hair and she looks 20 years younger. My whole family thinks I should be a Dr. I try to explain that its a simple but necessary hormone that none of us are getting enough of. It is a truely a unbelievable state of medicine to have something that would help illness off all types and it is not yet part of mainstream medicine. There must be alot of money being made of sick populations for the medical community not to pay attention to the biological need of hormone D at the right levels, based on weight, latitude, skin color and age. It is a crying shame because I kow how much I suffered with pain and desperation for relief and I know other patients world wide will succumb to illness for lack of enough D for no good reason. The science is here but the medical community looks at you blank when you tell them it was D that got you better.