Vitamin D also helps prevent strokes & heart attacks….
Today's Post: Monday, 11-23-2009
Last Monday, 11-16-2009, the AFP online news had a story about a study that was done on 27,686 Utah people of 50 or older with no history of cardiovascular disease to see if being low on blood levels of vitamin D tended to increase the number of people who went on to get heart attacks and strokes.
(The researchers decided to do the study on people from Utah to do it on a group that smoked little if at all and also tended not drink alcohol or to drink it heavily.)
Yikes! The researchers found that people with very low vitamin D levels were 77 % more likely to die early than those with normal levels; 45 % more likely to get some form of cardiovascular disease; 78 percent were more likely to have a stroke, & twice as likely to develop heart failure.
The researchers noted that a large number of people die of these diseases; and study co-author, Heidi May, pointed out that vitamin D deficiency is easily treatable.
The news story also noted that other studies have shown that Vitamin D also helps regulate key body functions such as blood pressure, inflammation and glucose control -- all connected to heart disease.
Two thirds of the people in Utah, they found, do not get enough vitamin D. (The story I saw does not say so. But I believe this was all of the group who had less than 30 ng/ml.)
Their very low group had blood levels of less than 15 ng/ml and the group considered high or normal had over 30 ng/ml.
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They reports I’ve gotten suggest that optimum blood levels of vitamin D are closer to 80 to 100 ng/ml.
I’ve also heard that one of the most predictive measures of heart attack risk is the calcification of arterial plaque; and that blood levels of 80 to 100 ng/ml of vitamin D help to prevent this from happening or getting worse and may even help reverse it.
Since the human body will tend to use 3,000 iu a day of vitamin D3 if it’s available; vitamin D also helps boost immunity preventing both colds & flu and many cancers plus it helps prevent the SAD form of depression; AND 1,000 iu capsules of vitamin D3 are so inexpensive, it looks like taking 2,000 iu a day or somewhat more of vitamin D3 in addition to the 400 iu in your multivitamin, may be extremely protective – and even easy to do.
In fact, doing this one thing is beginning to look like as valuable a way to protect your health as getting regular exercise or NOT smoking.
Today's Post: Monday, 11-23-2009
Last Monday, 11-16-2009, the AFP online news had a story about a study that was done on 27,686 Utah people of 50 or older with no history of cardiovascular disease to see if being low on blood levels of vitamin D tended to increase the number of people who went on to get heart attacks and strokes.
(The researchers decided to do the study on people from Utah to do it on a group that smoked little if at all and also tended not drink alcohol or to drink it heavily.)
Yikes! The researchers found that people with very low vitamin D levels were 77 % more likely to die early than those with normal levels; 45 % more likely to get some form of cardiovascular disease; 78 percent were more likely to have a stroke, & twice as likely to develop heart failure.
The researchers noted that a large number of people die of these diseases; and study co-author, Heidi May, pointed out that vitamin D deficiency is easily treatable.
The news story also noted that other studies have shown that Vitamin D also helps regulate key body functions such as blood pressure, inflammation and glucose control -- all connected to heart disease.
Two thirds of the people in Utah, they found, do not get enough vitamin D. (The story I saw does not say so. But I believe this was all of the group who had less than 30 ng/ml.)
Their very low group had blood levels of less than 15 ng/ml and the group considered high or normal had over 30 ng/ml.
X*X* X* X*X* X*
They reports I’ve gotten suggest that optimum blood levels of vitamin D are closer to 80 to 100 ng/ml.
I’ve also heard that one of the most predictive measures of heart attack risk is the calcification of arterial plaque; and that blood levels of 80 to 100 ng/ml of vitamin D help to prevent this from happening or getting worse and may even help reverse it.
Since the human body will tend to use 3,000 iu a day of vitamin D3 if it’s available; vitamin D also helps boost immunity preventing both colds & flu and many cancers plus it helps prevent the SAD form of depression; AND 1,000 iu capsules of vitamin D3 are so inexpensive, it looks like taking 2,000 iu a day or somewhat more of vitamin D3 in addition to the 400 iu in your multivitamin, may be extremely protective – and even easy to do.
In fact, doing this one thing is beginning to look like as valuable a way to protect your health as getting regular exercise or NOT smoking.
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